How to add custom mvc pages in to admin panel

[debabrata...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I wanted to add custom pages to the admin panel. A new menu item would be added to the admin panel and on click of that, it would open the respective view. I need it to manage the application for custom user-specific data.

Is that possible If yes please suggest me?

[Fredrik Schultz]

Yes, that's possible to do by implementing IDashboardArea and register it at startup:

https://api.kaliko.com/kalikocms/kalikocms.engine/kalikocms.dashboard/

(Path is the property in which you place the URL to your page, either relative (which will refer to /admin/) or absolute).

As an example this is the registration for the user manager that comes with the ASP.NET Identity implementation:

https://github.com/KalikoCMS/KalikoCMS.Core/tree/master/KalikoCMS.Identity/Register

Hope that helps!

[debabrata...@gmail.com]

Thanks I will try it out. However, I also found that Session is getting NULL under Index Action method.

public override ActionResult Index(CmsModel currentPage)
{
// Here Session object is always null.
Session[""] =
}

I think it's not initialized. I tried adding the module under web.config but didn't work.

[Fredrik Schultz]

I've looked into this and it seems there might be a module running a couple of event handlers too soon in the MVC pipeline.

Added it as an issue over at GitHub; https://github.com/KalikoCMS/KalikoCMS.Core/issues/154

Thanks for reporting the problem!

[debabrata...@gmail.com]

Ok Sure thanks

[Fredrik Schultz]

Pre-release packages (version 1.2.5-beta1) that address this issue are now available at https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=kalikocms

To enable support for session state when using the above version (1.2.5-beta1) of the MVC provider; add enableSessions="true" to the <siteSettings />-element of your web.config 

(For MVC projects not using session state this attribute should be set to false or omitted in order to get slightly better performance)

[Jonathan Bourassa]

Hello,

I am trying to do the Exact same ting here. I successfully registered the Area in The Admin and it shows up however when I click the Link I get a 404 not found. Tried Placing my Controller Both Inside the ./Admin/Controllers Folder and Plain ./Controllers Folder and not kicking in even tried using the [RoutePrefix("Admin")] DataAnnotation on the Controller.

Can someone explain me what I am missing here?

thank,

[Jonathan Bourassa]

Just a follow up to My Question, I tried With WebForms .Admin/[MyAreaName]/Default.aspx and this one worked fine without issues.

[Jonathan Bourassa]

OK I managed to get it working By Making a Controller Named AdminController and Removing the Index View from it to avoid Conflict with the default.aspx of the actual admin interface. However I am feeling like this is not Best Practice. I am right?

[Fredrik Schultz]

Hi Jonathan,

You should definitely be able to use [Route] and/or [RoutePrefix] attributes in your controller, even if it locates the URL to being under an "admin" path. 

Just to make sure that you've registered:

routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

..in your route configuration?