Difficult to explain. Supposing I have a proper/physical Umbraco page/node with the Url www.mysite.com/database/, and optionally several "fake" child pages that form input parameters for that page (but are not actual Umbraco pages)... eg:
What I want to achieve is for the Umbraco page resolved for www.mysite.com/database/ to also be invoked for all further child pages.
I know I can do this with a simple re-write rule (the puts the remainer of the Url in to the querystring). The problem is that the first page might not always be called "/database/", and could be something else the back-office user defines (eg. "/products/", "/products-database/" or "/products/database/").
I'm guessing there isn't an "out of the box" way to do it, and for each new use of the document type, I'm going to have to create a new re-write rule, but I thought I'd check just in case...
The only thing that comes in my mind besides the url rewriting would be in MVC.
I think it should be possible to create RenderMVc Controller for each of your child document types. In there Index action check there parents until your get to one with a template and then render this template with the current data. Theoretically this should work. Then it's not relevant how the naming of the parent nodes is.
Maybe worth a try in a simple prototype. But more a crazy theory.
Can I configure Umbraco so a single page handles all further child pages in Url?
Hello all,
Difficult to explain. Supposing I have a proper/physical Umbraco page/node with the Url www.mysite.com/database/, and optionally several "fake" child pages that form input parameters for that page (but are not actual Umbraco pages)... eg:
www.mysite.com/database/product-type/shoes/size/10
What I want to achieve is for the Umbraco page resolved for www.mysite.com/database/ to also be invoked for all further child pages.
I know I can do this with a simple re-write rule (the puts the remainer of the Url in to the querystring). The problem is that the first page might not always be called "/database/", and could be something else the back-office user defines (eg. "/products/", "/products-database/" or "/products/database/").
I'm guessing there isn't an "out of the box" way to do it, and for each new use of the document type, I'm going to have to create a new re-write rule, but I thought I'd check just in case...
Steve.
The only thing that comes in my mind besides the url rewriting would be in MVC.
I think it should be possible to create RenderMVc Controller for each of your child document types. In there Index action check there parents until your get to one with a template and then render this template with the current data. Theoretically this should work. Then it's not relevant how the naming of the parent nodes is.
Maybe worth a try in a simple prototype. But more a crazy theory.
Thanks for your input. Can you do this in Umbraco 4.7, or would I need to upgrade to 6.x?
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