First of all, I realise that the core of my problmen probably is the way that I'm trying to solve it, so let me first explain what I'm trying to do.
I have a Layout where I output a property.
Layout.cshtml
inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
...
//More of the layout here
<title>@Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("title")</title>
...
This is the base of the other templates:
FullWidth.cshtml
@{ Layout = "Layout.cshtml"; }
... layout here
This all works well, I make sure every document type has a property called title and it gets printed all the time.
Now I'm creating a page, where some data from a database is being displayed. So I created a custom controller:
public class ProductController : RenderMvcController
{
public ActionResult Index(Rendermodel model, int id)
{
var viewModel = new CustomRenderModel(model.Content);
viewModel.Product = Database.GetProductById(id);
return CurrentTemplate(viewModel);
}
}
This works great too, but the next thing I want to do is also set the title based on whatever is retrieved from the database. Something like this:
var viewModel = new CustomRenderModel(model.Content);
var product = Database.GetProductById(id);
viewModel.Product = product;
viewModel.Content.SetPropertyValue("title", product.name");
Obviously this doesnt work because the IPublishedContent is readonly. I'm just wondering what the best way is to modify a property like that.
I realise that exposing a SetPropertyValue is a bad idea probably, but what would be the way to solve this.
I would render this title in a separate partial view and give that partial view a specific model to render.
Have a look at this blog post I wrote which shows you how to do that. http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-optimise-your-website-for-search-engines-seo-in-umbraco/
Kind regards
Paul