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Neil Hartley 10 posts 31 karma points

Aug 17, 2015 @ 15:16
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Custom Route missing from route values

Using Umbraco 7
Ive set up a custom route and initialized it on ApplicationStarted as below.
```
protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        RouteTable.Routes.MapUmbracoRoute("test",
            "In-Memory/{id}",
            new { controller = "InMemoryPage", action = "InMemoryPage", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
            new RouteHandler(ApplicationConstants.InMemoryPageNodeId));

        base.ApplicationStarted(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
    }
```
When I open the application if I go straight to the URL I want routed I get the following error when the following code gets called.
```
CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).Children.Where("Visible")
```
Cannot find the Umbraco route definition in the route values, the request must be made in the context of an Umbraco request

which comes from a call to Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController.get_CurrentPage() I think.

The weird thing is, If I visit a standard page like the home page first and then go to my custom route, all works as expected..!

Having spent most of the day on this one, if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them :)

Thanks
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David Verberckmoes 46 posts 77 karma points

Aug 18, 2015 @ 13:18

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Hi Neil,

does your controller inherits from RenderMvcController?

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Neil Hartley 10 posts 31 karma points

Aug 19, 2015 @ 08:50

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Hey David,

We have the controller inheriting from a page base controller which in turn inherits from SurfaceController, IRenderMvcController

Thanks

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David Verberckmoes 46 posts 77 karma points

Aug 19, 2015 @ 14:57

Hi Neil,

let your base controller inherit from RenderMvcController and add a method like this:

protected T CreateModel<T>() where T : RenderModel, new()
{
    var viewModel = new T()
    {
        // you can set properties here if you are inheriting from other interfaces
    };

    //add an umbraco data token so the umbraco view engine executes
    RouteData.DataTokens["umbraco"] = viewModel;

    return viewModel;
}

You can also add this to the base controller to have the Index action required in all controllers:

public abstract override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model);

In your controller inheriting from the base controller you will have something like this:

public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
{
    // do lookups ...

    var vm = CreateModel<MyViewModel>();
    // set properties for your viewmodel

    return CurrentTemplate(vm);
}

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Simon 692 posts 1068 karma points

Sep 20, 2016 @ 07:21

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Hi Neil,

How have you solved your problem?

Thank you for your sharing

Kind Regards

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