Hi Nik,

To clarify; by event, I meant an event in the sense of a thing that happens (a concert, a show), and not an Umbraco event. I'm trying to bring data from external API into front end of the website.

I want to use JSON values in an object like image, description etc, to generate an event.

Okay, so I would start by looking into Umbraco Routing and rendering. Specifically, I would look at Custom MVC routes and Render MVC Controllers

Using these you could create an "Events" node in Umbraco which stores your details of your API you need to call, plus any intro text etc for your listing page.

Then by hijacking the routes and the rendering you could allow artificial pages to exist that display event specific information.

For example,

Your node might be /Events, then each individual one could be /Events/EventName.

Your custom controller could then make the required API calls to get the event details and return a typed model to a custom view.

How could I do this on a uSkinned installation with ModelsBuilder enabled? Would it be largely the same?

Could I create a content page in the back office, and then somehow store API data in the created template?

Hi Kamil,

I don't know anything about uSkinned I'm afraid, however, yes, I would imagine it would be largely the same.

If you don't want editors setting the API settings, you could look at storing them in webconfig instead and accessing them from there.

I'm also making the assumption that you are using Visual Studio, or similar IDE to help with the creation of your site.

Thanks,

Nik