Question

Is it possible to specify the full path of a Display or Editor template?

For example, I have the following model:

public class ParentModel
{
    public class ChildModel { get; set; }
}

I have a ParentController and a ChildController and I would like to put the Child display template view in the Views/Child/DisplayTemplates/ChildModel.cshtml and the ParentModel.cshtml view in Views/Parent/DisplayTemplates/ParentModel.cshtml.

Right now it can’t find the Child display template because it is looking in Views/Shared and Views/Parent.

Is it possible to specify the full path of a Display Template or write an HtmlHelper that can specify the folder(s) to look in?

Answer 1

I have figured out a way that works with only one slight drawback:

@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Child, "Child/ChildModel")

I created the following folder:

Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates\Child and placed ChildModel.cshtml in the folder. The drawback to this is that it no longer uses the model name to determine the template name and I imagine it is probably ignoring UIHint as well, but it does allow me to organize my Shared display templates a little better.