I want to create a FAQ page, which gets the FAQs from partial views located inside a defined view folder.
Each partial view would contain the question, the answer and some sort order field.
I can't find anything which gives me the complete list of views inside a view folder.
Update for clarification:
A FAQ would look something like this:
#model Busker.MVC.Models.FAQ.FAQModel
#{
var title = "What is xxxxx?";
}
<p>
Please register #Html.ActionLink("Register", "register", "Member") here.
</p>
The index page of the FAQ should iterate through all FAQs and first display the questions with and anchored links and then display all titles and questions in blocks.
Another approach I'm looking into, is loading the views in ViewAllFaqsModel. Havent' figured out how to get the partial view into a collection of the model though..
Your approach of using partial views is wrong. A partial view is created to be reused and not to be a file which actually contains content.
What I would do: Create a file (XML) or database which contains questions, answers and order fields, create a model for it and ouput in on your faq site.
So you could do something like this in your aspx file:
<% foreach(FAQEntry faqentry in faqentries)
{ %>
<h2><%= faqentry.Question %><2/>
<!-- And so on... -->
<% } %>
I think you only need one partial view that you render many times passing each time a ViewModel with the fields that you mentioned.
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I am making a Wikipedia clone to learn ruby on rails. In my app I have collaboration and wiki models with their own controllers and views. I would like to make a partial of the collaboration/new.html.erb view and put it into the wiki/new.html.erb. Is this possible? If so how would it be as simple as labeling the collaboration view _new.html.erb?
To refactor part of a view into a partial, extract the code you want to use and put it into a new partial under collaboration/_new.html.erb. Then to display this partial in a different view (such as the 'wiki' view), you would use the render function - making sure to specify the correct file path.
So in app/views/wiki/new.html.erb, add:
<%= render "collaboration/_new.html.erb %>
I am using MVC3, C# and Razor.
I have template paragraghs, which are stored and edited in the DB, like
"The sales data can be shown as follows: {SalesTable1}"
I would wish to substitute the {SalesTable1} bit with the result of some code(most likely razor) that iterates through the "Sales" class, ie
<table>
#foreach var item in Sales
{
<tr>
<td>#item.Product</td>
<td>#item.Sales</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
Code above may be not quite right, but it shows the idea.
In XSLT one would call a "template" with say a name of "SalesTable1".
What would be a good approach to solving this in Razor? BTW I am using a ViewModel where I can put my template data and my real data for processing by my View.
Thanks.
EDIT: I do not need {MySection} type tags(specifically) in the template if there is a better way of doing it. However it is important that "Admins" can edit the text around these tags within the application.
EDIT2: I have a main View which calls different Partial Views depending on different topic types. Within each Partial View I am hoping to replace the {tags} with the runtime #section templates which are also specificied in the Partial View. This seems not to work. I guess because "RenderSection" commands should appear in the Layout or parent View.
EDIT3: I think I would be better off using another RenderPartial from my Partial View. However I am unsure how I would replace the {myTable} tag with #{Html.RenderPartial("myTable");}.
<text>This is a test sentence. {myTable} After table </text>
to produce:
<text>This is a test sentence. #{Html.RenderPartial("myTable");} After table </text>
Finally I do have one issue with this approach in that if the "myTable" partial does not exist, or the {myTable} is misspelled ie {MyTablee} then the application would crash. I would want it to just carry on without running the Partial View.
You can use MVC3 Sections... they are defined as follows..
#section SideBar {
// Side bar code...
}
then when you need to render them, you simply call
#RenderSection("SideBar");
There is a great post by the GU here...
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/30/asp-net-mvc-3-layouts-and-sections-with-razor.aspx
I have sorted this now by using replacing the tags for Partial Views.
Many thanks.
I have a view in which I have a DIV which opens up as a JQuery dialog. This DIV has many elements including buttons and static text (No element inside this DIV is assigned any data from any model and it's not making use of any Razor syntax). Now I want to move this DIV to
another page so as the make it reusable. So that this DIV can be used in other views. What is the best way achieve this? Should I be using MVC user control?
Please Suggest
Thanks
Put the whole DIV in a partial view in your Views/Shared-folder in MVC (or another folder if you want to) . Let's assume you call this file '_DialogView.cshtml'. You can call this partial view from your normal page as a partial view, like this:
#Html.RenderPartial('_DialogView')
keep the page in a seperate htm. then use jquery.load('mypage.htm'). you can also use hash function in load as well jquery.load('main.htm#divname')
You can also use declarative helpers. See chapter "Reusing #helpers across multiple views" in ScottGu's blog here.
MyHelpers.cshtml
#helper GiveMeInput()
{
<input type="text" name"something"/>
}
Usage
#MyHelpers.GiveMeInput()
I've read a couple of articles on using asp.net mvc3 razor (which I am fairly new to). I have a couple of .cshmtl pages which are like shared content (e.g. header). They are basically just html pages with one or two divs etc.
To embed this in my main page, do I just use #renderPage("page address"). Do I also need a call to #renderbody? Do I need to specify the/a page in the layout property?
Thanksa
I would put the common elements in a layout (or perhaps a partial view rendered by the base layout). In fact, that's what I did in an application I am now building and it works quite nicely. The one issue is whether or not you need View Model data populated by the controller and passed to that partial view. I did, so I used a base controller and populated the common elements in the view model (all of those also inherited from a base class that had the common properties) and used sections and then in the sections renderered the partial view or not, depending on the view's need.
You can create a Partial View for each of these and call:
#Html.Partial("ViewName")
Or you can use sections, or this article on sections might help too.
As you may or may not know, ASP.NET accepts HTML tagging.
So why not include your .aspx file with the HTML include tag?
Here's how:
<!-- #include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->
Ex:
<!--#include virtual="header.aspx"-->
I do this all of the time when writing an ASP.NET website.
Just place it wherever you want the code, from the included page, to show up.
I want to display different navigation links based on the page that is loaded in my _layout.cshtml file.
I thought about checking the url and just calling Html.RenderPartial within an if block but that seems clunky.
Is there a way to control this with a controller?
If you truly need different navigation links on different pages then I think you should specify different layouts pages on these separate pages. These different layouts should then specify your _layout as their layout, making it the master layout
Ex:
_navlinks1.cshtml
#{
Layout = "_layout"
}
#RenderBody()
#section navlinks
{
#*create navlinks specific to current page*#
}
Then in your _layout page you can put #RenderSection("navlinks", false) where you want the navigation links to go.
But, if for some reason you need a distinct set of navigation links for every single page, then putting navigation links in your layout might not make sense. Might be better off having all your models inherit a base model with a list of items containing navigation link data. Then call a partial view that processes this data into the correct links in your views.