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sheva29 5 posts 114 karma points

Nov 28, 2016 @ 23:39
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Preview element that has no template
Hi,

I'm new Umbraco. I'm using the latest version with Razor MVC. I have a WSMaster page for layout that loads all the different views depending where the user navigates. WSMaster loads WHome, which is my landing page. I have created a document type called SideRail. When in WSHome, I'm parsing a collection of those objects in order to display a side rail in my WSHome, this content is static and doesn't link to pages inside the the application but outside.

Which means that my SideRail document type doesn't have a template. I just need the document type to parse my side rail and display information on the WSHome page. This is a problem for the content manager when creating content for this componenet because the only thing I have on my template is:
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
Layout = "WSMaster.cshtml";
}
```
This is something Umbraco created by default when creating my SideRail type in the CMS. When I hit preview after creating a SideRail component nothing renders of course.

Is there a way for me to have my template point to WSHome so that content managers can see a preview of what they are building?

Again, I'm new to Umbraco so perhaps building my SideRail has a document type wasn't the best approach. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks!
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sheva29 5 posts 114 karma points

Nov 29, 2016 @ 00:06
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One way that I was able to solve it, which is bit hacky, is by doing a redirecting through JS:
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = "WSMaster.cshtml";
}



<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){

    window.location = "/";

})();
</script>
```
Again, not the most elegant way, more interested on learning the Umbraco way

Thanks again,
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Alex Skrypnyk 5908 posts 22603 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib

Nov 30, 2016 @ 23:22
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Hi Sheva,

Another way to try it is to use Umbraco.RenderTemplate() method and parent page as param, because we need to render parent page here:
```
@Html.Raw(Umbraco.RenderTemplate(Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Parent.Id))
```
Thanks,

Alex
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sheva29 5 posts 114 karma points

Dec 06, 2016 @ 21:13
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Alex,

Thanks for your reply! This worked like a charm. For taxonomy purposes I made the parent of my SideRails a SideRail repository. which doesn't have a template. But I set the layout of my template to Null and loaded WSHome by passing its ID like this:
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
Layout = null;
}

@Html.Raw(Umbraco.RenderTemplate(1074))
```
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