Hi Rich, can you paste how your template looks?

The problem is probably related with how you declared your template - it has to be declared as

...MyTemplate<ContentPage>

and content type should be declared as:

AllowedTemplates = new string[] {"Search"}, DefaultTemplate = typeof(MyTemplate)

.

If your template and document type have the same name (ContentPage) than in above code you must include your template's namespace.

BTW, if you have only one template that renders ContentPage, than you don't have to set DefaultTemplate property at all - it'll be set automatically by uSiteBuilder.

Hi Vladan,

Thanks for your reply, I've since changed the set up but I'll get the error message to appear again and post my template code.

With regards to "BTW, if you have only one template that renders ContentPage, than you don't have to set DefaultTemplate property at all - it'll be set automatically by uSiteBuilder." 

I believe there may be a bug here, if I do not set any "AllowedTemplates" then the default template gets set automatically via the template, however with "AllowedTemplates" the default does not get set. Can you please confirm if thisis by design or if this a bug?

Many thanks

Rich

Hi Rich, yes you noticed this well - if you set AllowedTemplates to any value, it overrides default behaviour of uSiteBuilder so uSiteBuilder it's not setting DefaultTemplate automatically. Did you try to set it explicitly (through DefaultTemplate property) ? Can you paste the code?

Eventhough it is designed like that, I'd say that this is a bug and that we should change it - we didn't put enough attention into AllowedTemplates property as we are not really using it often. In Vega, we prefer strongly typed approach (as AllowedTemplates is just a string property, there is no compile time check if you set template(s) name(s) correctly).

• Ideally right now I'd love to just use uSiteBuilder for DocTypes. However without strongly typed templates its not possible to specify the default template.
  
  It would great just set the DefaultTemplate via a string property. Is this possible or could you point me to where I can tweak the code to make this happen? (I'm hoping I might be able to tweak the 'Allowed Templates' code)
  
  fyi I'm not using code behind (I prefer Razor) so I just XCOPY my templates for deployment, and also this project I use uComponents RenderTemplate heavily http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=RenderTemplates  and in initial testing it seems they don't seem to play nicely together.
  
  
• Out of interest (this one maybe my lack of understanding) I often have templates which are not related to a DocType (for example xmlSiteMap) do I always have to specify a DocType per template to have the template included in uSiteBuider?

Hey Vladan,

Thanks for replying, this sounds great.

Also thanks for the further info on TemplateBase, can't wait to get this all working on my project.

Rich

Just like to clarify that uComponents RenderTemplate works fine with uSiteBuilder, my mistake.

Rich

Hi Vladan, I also have this issue, I wonder if you could expand on the solution?  I could not work it out from your above message.  My DocType and template have the same name:

Doc Type declaration:

[DocumentType( 
                    AllowedChildNodeTypes = new Type[] { typeof(Project.Web.DocumentTypes.Content) },
                    AllowedTemplates = new string[] { "AltTemplate" },
                    DefaultTemplate = typeof(Project.Web.Masterpages.Content)
                 )
    ]
public class Content: Project.Web.DocumentTypes.Master

Masterpage declaration:

public partial class Content: Vega.USiteBuilder.TemplateBase<Project.Web.DocumentTypes.Content>

There error I receive is

Document type 'Content' has a default template 'Content' but that template does not use this document type

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