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How to post forms in Sitecore MVC Part 2?
(Remember that Sitecore MVC is an implementation of ASP.NET MVC with slightly different requirements, and cannot always act exactly as normal ASP.NET MVC) Posting forms with a controller rendering is a little more tricky than view renderings. If you need to post back rather than redirect, remember to account for multiple forms on a page.
How to create a custom Sitecore text field?
The field appears as a standard Sitecore Text field, but includes the Validate Button. The validation obviously fails. Let’s try with a regular email: And that concludes how simple it is to create a custom field in Sitecore. In later posts, we’ll go over more advanced fields.
How to validate a field in Sitecore template?
Now, let’s create an items based on the template, and verify our field renders: Create an instance of your Sitecore Template, make sure your field renders The field appears as a standard Sitecore Text field, but includes the Validate Button. The validation obviously fails. Let’s try with a regular email:
When to call post action in Sitecore controller?
If we have, the POST-action of each controller rendering is called instead of the GET-action. But the POST-action should only be called from the controller where the user has posted the form. For all other controller renderings, the GET-action should be called. The initial hint of how to solve this, I’ve found on a blog post from Mike Edwards.
What are the types of renderings in Sitecore?
There are two main types of rendering in Sitecore MVC – controller renderings and view renderings. This post will cover how to post a form from a view rendering. As usual, we’ll start by looking at how a form post works in regular ASP.NET MVC.
How to post forms back to same page?
You can, however, post back to the same page (and return View ()) using an empty, standard @Html.BeginForm (). Kevin Brechbühl explains how to do this (including one of several solutions for handling multiple forms on a page).
How to use a testable repository pattern in Sitecore?
To find out more about using a testable repository pattern with Sitecore, have a look at this unit testing post .) The view that we return looks very similar to the one used by the view rendering example in part 1 – with one crucial difference: we are explicitly declaring the controller and action to post to.
What happens if form fails validation in Sitecore?
However, if your form fails validation, you will want to return the same view again. This will not work if you are using Sitecore’s form handler ( @Html.FormHandler (“ControllerName”, “ActionName”) ); using return View will interrupt Sitecore’s page load and return that view only.
Do you need irenderingmodel in Sitecore MVC?
We’ll use exactly the same view model as before – but because we are no longer relying on the Sitecore MVC pipeline to populate our model, there is no need to inherit from RenderingModel or implement IRenderingModel: In our controller rendering, we want to retrieve a person’s current vehicle and output it to a view that contains a form.
Is it possible to get the same page back in Sitecore?
As Sitecore executes form post in Request Begin pipeline, it is not possible to get the same page back again unless we execute the Sitecore’s page rendering pipeline, which become tedious to handle. This prompted me to explore the other possibility of solving this problem and the solution resulted into bunch of code but most of it is abstract.