You will need the model under Subtemplate to inherit from the subtemplate model.

Remember that both templates get rendered. The subtemplate parent will need its model to render the razor on its page, then the inherited template (news, etc) from subtemplate will need its specific model. However, that all needs to be wrapped up in one model.

Does that make sense?

A good example of this is the Hybrid Framework project. However, one caveat is the most recent versions of that are more "Starter Kit" than "custom routing example" so it may be hard to work through exactly what their doing.

I can post some simpler examples if you need more help.

Thanks, Jason

In your SubMaster try inheriting from UmbracoViewPage

The constructor for these would be

    public MyViewModel(IPublishedContent content)
        : base(content)
    { 
    }

Where the IPublishedContent would come from the RenderModel model

    public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
    {
         // This is the constructor arg
          var content = model.Content;
    ...

Just wanted to follow up with what I've done to make this thing work.

So in the end, since I'm inheriting a site that already had a bunch of work done on it, I didn't want to change what was already there if I could help it. There is one master template, a submaster, and then the layouts below those. So three layers of templates to inherit things from. I decided to stick with RenderModel.

I changed my model to inherit from RenderModel, and the main error I was getting was that RenderModel doesn't have a constructor with 0 parameters. So I'm just sending the model's Content property into my constructor when I declare my model. I also had to add a constructor to my model that accepts an IPublishedContent argument.

To break it down:

• SubMaster inherits from UmbracoTemplatePage still. No change there.
• Child template inherits UmbracoViewPage
• Child template uses SubMaster as the Layout
• MembersPageModel inherits from RenderModel
• Added a constructor for MembersPageModel to accept one IPublishedContent argument, pretty much exactly what Rusty wrote.

I appreciate the help, guys. You helped me through a dark time in my new job, and I feel like I've learned a lot. Hopefully I can help someone else who's coming to this stuff new as well. :)

-j

Hi Jason,

I think you might want to try to use an Html.Action to render your form rather than RenderPartial.

Generally you would have two methods in your surface controller, one to render the form and then one to handled the form submit.

[PluginController("MyApp")]
public class MembershipController : SurfaceController
{

    [ChildActionOnly]
    public ActionResult RenderSignInForm(SignInModel model)
    {
        return PartialView("SignInForm", model));
    }

    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
   public ActionResult HandleSignIn(SignInModel model)
   {
        if (!ModelState.IsValid) return this.CurrentUmbracoPage();

        if (Members.Login(model.Login.Username, model.Login.Password))
        {
            // successful login
            return this.RedirectToUmbracoPage(model.AccountPageId);
        }

        // unsuccessful login
        return this.CurrentUmbracoPage();
   }
}

The "SignInForm" partial would look something like:

        @{
        using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<MembershipController>("HandleSignIn", new { area = "MyApp" }, new { @class = "form-horizontal" }))
        {
            <fieldset>
                <legend>Login</legend>
                @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
                <div class="control-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Login.Username, new { @class = "control-label" })
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Login.Username)
                    <div class="controls">
                        @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Login.Username, new { @placeholder = "Your email address" })
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="control-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(x => x.Login.Password, new { @class = "control-label" })
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Login.Password)
                    <div class="controls">
                        @Html.PasswordFor(x => x.Login.Password, new { @placeholder = "Your password" })
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="control-group">
                    <div class="controls">
                        @Html.HiddenFor(x => x.AccountPageId)
                        <label class="checkbox">
                            @Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x.Login.RememberMe) Remember Me
                        </label>
                        <button type="submit" class="btn">Login</button>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </fieldset>
        }
    }

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