Basics: Linking and URL Parameters

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Linking with Modified Page Parameters

#4 Switch to view by URL

Safely Linking URLs with Umlauts and similar

Requirements

2sxc 12.08

Resources

View Switch

Switch to view by URL

To make the views accessible through URL first follow the standard creation process...

Create a new view using FAB on the views panel.
In the view configuration enter a view name.
Create and or select a template file.

For this tutorial we have set up two example views, see: View 1, View 2.
As seen in the example above we've made two views with the routes view1/.* and view2/.*.

To generate the URL we'll use Link.To(parameters: ...) which will build the url from the specified parameters.

⬇️ Result | Source ➡️

View 1

Page parameters: tut=basics-viewswitch&variant=dyn&view1=whatever

@inherits Custom.Hybrid.Razor14

<h3>Make URL pointing to view</h3>
@{
    // We often want to preserve current url-params
    // For the tutorial it's essential, otherwise the Tutorial doesn't know where we are
    var urlParams = CmsContext.Page.Parameters;
    var view1Parameters = urlParams.Set("view1", "whatever");
    var view2Parameters = urlParams.Set("view2", "nice");
  }
<p>
  Link to view1
  <a href='@Link.To(parameters: view1Parameters)'>
    @Link.To(parameters: view1Parameters)
  </a>
</p>
<p>
  Link to view2
  <a href='@Link.To(parameters: view2Parameters)'>
    @Link.To(parameters: view2Parameters)
  </a>
</p>

Source Code of View-First.cshtml
@inherits Custom.Hybrid.Razor14

<h2>View 1</h2>
<p>
  Page parameters: <code>@CmsContext.Page.Parameters</code>
</p>

Source Code of View-Second.cshtml
@inherits Custom.Hybrid.Razor14

<h2>View 2</h2>
<p>
  Page parameters: <code>@CmsContext.Page.Parameters</code>
</p>

View-Switching based on URL Parameters

This requires the view configuration to be set to activate the details view if id is specified in the url, using id/.*