Optional UrlParameters in custom feather widget - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 28-Mar-2016 00:00

I have a custom feather widget that I am using to show Master/Detail views for Sitefinity's Ecommerce content type. Now I need to figure out a way to also allow filtering by a few different scenarios. I may either have a classificaiton or I may have a Sitefinity product type coming as a parameter. I had planned to put some logic in to handle them respectively, but I just cannot figure out how to do this with auto-routing.

public ActionResult Index()

ViewBag.CurrentPageUrl = this.GetCurrentPageUrl();

return View("Default");

public ActionResult Details(Product productItem)

var viewModel = service.CreateProductDetailsViewModel(productItem);

return View(viewModel);

I have tried adding a ListByTaxon action, but it never seems to get hit. I instead get a 404.

public ActionResult ListByTaxon(ITaxon taxonFilter, int? page)

string fieldName;

if (taxonFilter.Taxonomy.Name == "Categories")

fieldName = taxonFilter.Taxonomy.TaxonName;

else

fieldName = taxonFilter.Taxonomy.Name;

ViewBag.WindowTypeName = fieldName;

return View("Default");

I have tried adding a custom action with RelativeRoute, but that destroys the ability to use the built-in auto-routing for master/detail.

Another thought I had was to put in HandleUknownAction, but I am only pulling one parameter back when I am passing two. I am guessing that is due to the actions only taking 1.

protected override void HandleUnknownAction(string actionName)

var urlParameters = this.ControllerContext.RouteData.Values["action"];

if (urlParameters != null && urlParameters.Any())

if (urlParameters[0] == "custom-type")

this.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;

RouteHelper.SetUrlParametersResolved(true);

ViewBag.CustomTypeName = urlParameters[1];

View("Default").ExecuteResult(this.ControllerContext);

base.HandleUnknownAction(actionName);

The conditions I am looking to allow are:

page/products/ (master view)

page/products/info (details view)

page/products/type/producttype (custom product type via Sitefinity Ecommerce)

page/products/application/classification (this would be custom classifications)

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