Hello,

This documentation might help:

http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/custom-routes

http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/custom-controllers

Jeroen

Thanks for the information

I have tried these things and I notice that this "Custom MVC Routes" requires me to have a Document Type.

I am accessing the view directly - without a document type. I need my view to inherit the layout of the parent to get the design (this view uses @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage)

I have tried different things and am now looking at SurfaceControllers, using this as inspiration: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/surface-controllers

This works correctly for the URL http://localhost:50871/umbraco/surface/MySurface/Index using my controller and model, WITHOUT a layout.

When I add the layout it says it is passing my model, but the layout page expects RenderModel, which I understand and would expect.

I then follow the guide you sent me to solve this problem and make my custom model inherit from RenderModel. This requires me to add a custructor, like this: public Login(IPublishedContent content) : base(content) {  }

And I call it from my controller like this: return View("CheckoutStep2", new Models.Login(CurrentPage));

And now the return view gives me this error: "Cannot find the Umbraco route definition in the route values, the request must be made in the context of an Umbraco request" which I don't really understand.

Note that I have tried different things too, without the SurfaceController etc., but I always run into problems - often the same problem with 'the request must be made in the context of an Umbraco request'

My requirements are:

 - I want to call my view directly (without any document type) and I want the view to use the same layout-views as my Umbraco pages

 - I want this view to use a custom model

 - I want to submit this view to my controller, so I can perform login etc.

Am I going about this the right way? What am I missing?

I think I am making this way too complicated

At the moment I am looking into if this solves my problem: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/templating/mvc/forms

Will post back :)

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