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joshb
joshb

Reputation: 5220

Overriding editor template in theme affects admin view

I created a form using the CustomForms module and need to control the markup of the input fields I've included on the form (to add bootstrap specific classes). I added a view to my theme at the location /Views/EditorTemplates/Fields/Input.Edit.cshtml and that allowed me to update the markup for the input fields.

My problem is that the view in my theme is also being picked up in the admin views. I didn't expect this behavior but it's happening. I tried scoping the view override to the url (Input.Edit-url-contact.cshtml) and content type (Input.Edit-ContactRequest.cshtml) using the alternate naming conventions but they do not appear to work in this case.

Is there a way to scope the Input.Edit.cshtml view in my theme so it only applies to the front-end of the site? Or is there a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 884

Answers (1)

joshb
joshb

Reputation: 5220

I ended up working around this issue by implementing a shape table provider (based on Bertrand's suggestion) to specify different template names in my theme so they weren't picked up in the admin. Here's what it looks like:

public class EditorFieldShapeProvider : IShapeTableProvider
{
    public void Discover(ShapeTableBuilder builder)
    {
        builder.Describe("EditorTemplate")
            .OnDisplaying(displaying =>
            {
                var shape = displaying.Shape;

                if (shape.ContentField is InputField) {
                    shape.TemplateName = "CustomInputField";
                }
            });
    }
}

Just drop that class somewhere in your theme and create your view at /ThemeName/Views/EditorTemplates/CustomInputField.cshtml

Upvotes: 3

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