Question

I would like to be able to specify exactly where a ContentPart is rendered in a view.

For example, in my Content.Summary.cshtml I want to wrap my title and first image from the gallery (I’m using ZenGallery) in an anchor tag. I thought I would be able to do it like this but the gallery template is not rendered.

<a href="@Url.ItemDisplayUrl((IContent)Model)">
  <h2>@Model.ContentItem.TitlePart.Title</h2>
  @Display(Model.ContentItem.ZenGalleryPart)
</a>

But if I do the following then the gallery template (ZenGallery.Summary.cshtml) is shown along with all other parts.

@Display(Model.Content)

I understand that the recommended way to do this is probably using Placement.info, is that right? But this way makes more sense to me and would allow for more fine grain control of the end markup. How could I achieve the markup I’m looking for?

Answer 1

This should give you a pretty good start on doing precisely what you want: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2011/07/31/so-you-don-t-want-to-use-placement-info.aspx