You could add a new route to your routeConfig.cs file:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Register",
    url: "events/{year}/{eventName}/register",
    defaults: new { controller = "Events", action = "Register" }
);

Hi Tom, thanks for the reply, added a new RouteConfig.cs file into the root of App_start and this file contains:

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

    public class RouteConfig
    {

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Register",
                url: "events/{year}/{eventName}/register",
                defaults: new { controller = "{controllerName}", action = "Submit" }
            );
        }
    }

However, still this redirects to

/umbraco/Surface/{controller}/{action}

I suspect theres more to getting this to work than just adding what you put above into a file. Im really not familiar with this, so whilst the help is appreciated I would understand more with an example. Honestly, speak to me like a 5 year old here, thanks for the help.

Hi David,

No problem, i'll elaborate some more. When you've got the routeconfig file set-up you need to register it on the applicationstarted event.

public class UmbracoApplication : ApplicationEventHandler {
    protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase httpApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
    }
}

For more information on the topic of binding events before, during or after start-up of your application check out: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/events/application-startup

When creating a new controller which 'fetches' your request be sure to inherit from the base mvc Controller class.

public class EventsController : Controller {
    public ActionResult Register(string year, string eventName) {
        return View();
    }
}

For the sake of completeness the route config file looks like:

public class RouteConfig {
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Register",
            url: "events/{year}/{eventName}/register",
            defaults: new { controller = "Events", action = "Register", year = 2018, eventName = "test" }
        );
     }
}

(There's no need for the default year and eventName parameters to be set)

The documentation also has a topic + example on creating custom routes: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Routing/custom-routes

Similar kind of problem as above stated by David

Hi Guys,

Having trouble in returning to view by passing model along with this.

errorMessage Cannot bind source type eCaptis.Models.Patient to model type Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.IPublishedContent.

public class PatientController : SurfaceController {

public ActionResult Edit(int? id)
{
    if (id == null)
    {
        return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
    }
    Patient patient = db.Patients.Find(id);
    if (patient == null)
    {
        return HttpNotFound();
    }
    return PartialView( patient);
}

} I possibly suspect there is problem with the routing, as after installing Umbraco v8, Debugger is not hitting RouteConfig.cs

Bit of BackGround: I have created a document type in umbraco called home which has a child item edit and login

Home page will display a table where by clicking on name it should navigate to edit patient view, so i have passed Id of the patient to controller upon clicking the name of patient as shown in the code above.

Doing this my url is changing from http://localhost:12345 to http://localhost:12345/umbraco/Surface/Patient/Edit/345

In general if we dont use surface controller or Umbraco this url could be like http://localhost:12345 to http://localhost:12345/Patient/Edit/345

I have even looked into route hijacking but this did not help me or may be because of my lack of understanding.

Any help in fixing this is much appreciated Thanks in advance

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