I am working on creating a web site that is viewable with a mobile and desktop browser, and so started looking at switching the MasterPageFile, to change the MasterPage. I found this post Adding codebehind to masterpages which describes the problem. Is this still the case, that Page_PreInit() is not run, or not early enough, to change the master page in newer versions of Umbraco?
You don't need to do this in your code behind. Umbraco has a feature called alternate templates that you can access via the url. Then Umbraco will use that masterpage instead of the default one.
So assuming your mastertemplate alias of the masterpage you want to use for the mobile site is is called mobile, your normal url is http://yoursite.com/somepage/ all you need to do to view the mobile template is change the url to http://yoursite.com/somepage/mobile/
Hope this helps you and pleas let me know if it din't.
Master Template => containing HTML head navigation etc
Content Template => containing bread crumb side menus
Item Template => containing body text, listers for news items, the central panel of the page that often changes
And then create mobile specific Master Template and Content Templates for the site (with simplified and cut down menus etc), but keep the place holders with the same IDs. Then reuse the Item Template. This would mean that we would not new item templates for each page type, and it would keep the menu structure simpler, you would not need to have http://sitename.com/news/new_site_launched/mobileNews for a news article link, with a link back to the listing page being http://sitename.com/news/mobileNewsList.
Hence I was hoping to switch the Content Template master page in code behind.
Changing MasterPageFile in code behind
I am working on creating a web site that is viewable with a mobile and desktop browser, and so started looking at switching the MasterPageFile, to change the MasterPage. I found this post Adding codebehind to masterpages which describes the problem. Is this still the case, that Page_PreInit() is not run, or not early enough, to change the master page in newer versions of Umbraco?
Richard
Hi Richard,
You don't need to do this in your code behind. Umbraco has a feature called alternate templates that you can access via the url. Then Umbraco will use that masterpage instead of the default one.
So assuming your mastertemplate alias of the masterpage you want to use for the mobile site is is called mobile, your normal url is http://yoursite.com/somepage/ all you need to do to view the mobile template is change the url to http://yoursite.com/somepage/mobile/
Hope this helps you and pleas let me know if it din't.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard,
I was planning on doing the following:
Master Template => containing HTML head navigation etc
Content Template => containing bread crumb side menus
Item Template => containing body text, listers for news items, the central panel of the page that often changes
And then create mobile specific Master Template and Content Templates for the site (with simplified and cut down menus etc), but keep the place holders with the same IDs. Then reuse the Item Template. This would mean that we would not new item templates for each page type, and it would keep the menu structure simpler, you would not need to have http://sitename.com/news/new_site_launched/mobileNews for a news article link, with a link back to the listing page being http://sitename.com/news/mobileNewsList.
Hence I was hoping to switch the Content Template master page in code behind.
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