I'm trying to understand injecting shape templates a little better.

I've seen several examples of injecting ad hoc shapes, but I'm still fuzzy about a few things.

So, from the Theme Machine theme, there is this line:

WorkContext.Layout.Footer.Add(New.BadgeOfHonor(), "5");

It creates an ad hoc BadgeOfHonor shape template. This makes sense because elsewhere in the theme there is a BadgeOfHonor.cshtml view.

However, in the same layout, there is this line:

WorkContext.Layout.User.Add(New.User(), "10");

There is no User.cshtml so it's getting it some other way (from Core/Shapes I presume). How does it know where to get it?

What got me wondering how this works is that I'm trying to inject the view for the QuickLogOn module.  I've tried:

WorkContext.Layout.User.Add(New.QuickLogOnWidget(),"15");

I thought this might work given that there's a part called QuickLogOnWidget.cshtml defined in the module. No luck though. Gives a "Shape type QuickLogOnWidget not found". I've even defined a Part.QuickLogOnWidget.cshtml in my theme hoping that it would work, but no love there either.

I figured that if I knew more about how creating ad hoc shape templates work, I could figure out how to load the QuickLogOnWidget.

Any ideas?

Any clever folks out there?

I'm supposing that over New Years might not have been the best time to post this question.  :-)

Just name your file 'QuickLogOnWidget.cshtml' in the 'Views' folder of your theme, not Part.QuickLogOnWidget.cshtml.

That works for simple templates, but how do I pass the QuickLogOnWidget Model in to the view?

When I try this the Model is missing. I think in this case we're just injecting a simple view, not necessarily injecting the actual widget.

Maybe injecting a shape template isn't what I need. Is there a way to inject a widget within layout.cshtml.

What do you think?

To add a widget to a zone you should use the Widget section in the admin dashboard. Add the widget to a layer that suits your needs (Default = all pages).

Yes, if I was simply adding a widget to my site I would do it that way. However, I am trying to inject a widget template programmatically in my *Theme*. This would be in the Layout.cshtml file.