Hi,

I would go with a partial router, since your detail page is a page in the CMS. This example http://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/CMS/routing/partial-routing/Example-of-News-partial-routing/ actually shows how to route to "external" content. In that example, instead of calling the DDS to see if the news item exists in the database, you call your external service.

Hi Johan,

Thank You. I do have some problems with getting that example working on my end though. Could be that I am a bit green in the Epiworld (not .net).

1) My detail page is deeper in the hierarchy than below the startpage. How do I set that correctly? Or do I have to put the dummypage just below the startpage?

2) How to best form url-links to the news from the list. This list is a block that could be anywhere. It is also multilanguage. So I have to form the urls similar to /details/year/date/title (this actually a vue script).

So. How to best construct this urls? Is there a built in slug generator for titles etc? 

My goal is to use as much "epi" best practice as possible here. 

Thanks again.

1, Instead of the code below, you have to have a setting or other logic that fetches your detail page. It could be a setting in appSettings or a setting on the startpage

var newsPage = context.Locate.ContentLoader().GetChildren<NewsContainer>(ContentReference.StartPage).GetFirstOrDefault();

2, The partial router handles both outgoing and incoming URLs. The outgoing URL is generated in the GetPartialVirtualPath method.

The last part of the slug it's up to you to generate in the method mentioned above. The first part will be to you detail page.

Unfortunatelly. This example seems to be obsoleted. I can't seem to use this method at all in code.

My point here is that I need to construct the url in the api controller. It seems I need actual IContent here. 

Maybe someone at Epi could update the sample if code is obsolete?

The only method I can access, is GetVirtualPath but that requires actual content.

I've not tested this. But don't you pass your custom news article object in that method, then it will resolve which partial router to use and call the method GetPartialVirtualPath in the partial router? No need for IContent. 

I can't seem to access any of the methods at all. I don't get this at all.

I looked at the sample Jon created here but that too relies on physical pages.

http://www.jondjones.com/learn-episerver-cms/episerver-developers-guide/episerver-routing/how-to-set-up-a-partial-router

I would love to have that NonContent method back.

Which methods!? Either dependency inject UrlResolver or use the static one UrlResolver.Current.GetVirtualPathForNonContent(). 

Ah :). Lets try that.