Hello,

I am currently working through the Using Surface Controllers in the RTE video but cannot get the surface controller to render in the rte.  When I click the insert macro button and select the Contact Form macro, I get the error:  Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/ContactForm.cshtml).

I changed the value of the <MacroErrors> tag to "throw" in the umbracoSettings.config.  Now I get a different error: Failed to retrieve macro result for macro with alias ContactForm.  Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: content.

When I created my partial view macro file, I checked the 'Create macro' checkbox so that it would automatically create the macro.

I have also verified that my Contact Form macro has the "Use in rich text editor" check box checked, and the "Render in rich text editor" checkbox checked.

I have verified that my partial view ContactForm.cshtml is in the ~/Views/Partials folder and my partial view macro file ContactForm.cshtml is in the ~/Views/MacroPartials folder.

I am using Umbraco 7.1.4.  Here are some of my code snippits:

Partial View:  ContactForm.cshtml

@model MyFirstSurfaceController.Models.ContactFormViewModel

@if(TempData["success"] == null)

{

using(Html.BeginUmbracoForm<MyFirstSurfaceController.Controllers.ContactFormSurfaceController>("HandleFormSubmit") ) {

<div>

        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name, new { placeholder = "Name" })

        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Name)

        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email, new { placeholder = "Email address" })

        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Email)

</div>

<div>

        @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.Message, new { placeholder = "Your Message" })

        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Message)

</div>

<div>

<button id="comment_submit" type="submit">Send</button>

</div>

}

}

else

{

    <a>We'll be in touch soon.</a>

}

Partial View Macro File:  ContactForm.cshtml

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

@Html.Action("Index", "ContactFormSurface")

ContactFormViewModel.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

 

namespace MyFirstSurfaceController.Models

{

    public class ContactFormViewModel

    {

        [Required]

        public string Name { get; set; }

        [Required]

        [EmailAddress]

        public string Email { get; set; }

        [Required]

        public string Message { get; set; }

    }

}

ContactFormSurfaceController.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Mvc;

using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

using MyFirstSurfaceController.Models;

using System.Net.Mail;

 

namespace MyFirstSurfaceController.Controllers

{

    public class ContactFormSurfaceController : SurfaceController

    {

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

            return PartialView("ContactForm", new ContactFormViewModel());

        }

        [HttpPost]

        public ActionResult HandleFormSubmit(ContactFormViewModel model)

        {

            if (!ModelState.IsValid)

                return CurrentUmbracoPage();

            //send email

            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

            message.To.Add("[email protected]");

            message.Subject = "New Contact request";

            message.From = new MailAddress(model.Email, model.Name);

            message.Body = model.Message;

            SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();

            //smtp.Send(message);

            TempData["success"] = true;

            return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();

        }

    }

}