Custom Orchard CMS 1.4 Module Editor Shape Not Rendering

Question

I am building a custom module in Orchard 1.4 following Kevin Kuebler's Pluralsight tutorial. I believe I have everything in place that I need, but when I enable my module and attempt to add a new Article (My custom content type) I am not seeing the fields for my Custom Content Part. I have rebuilt from scratch numerous times following along with the tutorial, but keep getting stuck in this same spot. I have googled for answers, but from what I am seeing I have everything in place that I need. Below are pieces of my code.

Migrations.cs

using Orchard.Core.Contents.Extensions;
using Orchard.Data.Migration;
using Orchard.ContentManagement.MetaData;

    namespace Northern.Articles {
    public class Migrations : DataMigrationImpl {

        public int Create() {

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("Article", builder =>
                builder.WithPart("CommonPart")
                .WithPart("TitlePart")
                .WithPart("AutoroutePart")
                .WithPart("BodyPart", partBuilder =>
                    partBuilder.WithSetting("BodyTypePartSettings.Flavor","Text")
                    )
                .Creatable()
                .Draftable()
                );

            return 1;
        }

        public int UpdateFrom1() {

            SchemaBuilder.CreateTable("ArticlePartRecord", table =>
                table.ContentPartRecord()
                .Column<int>("ArticleID")
                .Column<string>("PrimaryImage", col => col.WithLength(300))
                .Column<string>("ThumbImage", col => col.WithLength(300))
                .Column<bool>("IsFeatured"));

            ContentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("Article", builder =>
                builder.WithPart("ArticlePart"));

            return 2;
        }
    }
}

ArticlePartRecord.cs

using Orchard.ContentManagement.Records;
namespace Northern.Articles.Models
{
    public class ArticlePartRecord : ContentPartRecord
    {
        public virtual int ArticleID { get; set; }
        public virtual string PrimaryImage { get; set; }
        public virtual string ThumbImage { get; set; }        
        public virtual bool IsFeatured { get; set; }
    }
}

ArticlePart.cs

using Orchard.ContentManagement;

namespace Northern.Articles.Models
{
    public class ArticlePart : ContentPart<ArticlePartRecord>
    {
        public int ArticleID {
            get { return Record.ArticleID; }
            set { Record.ArticleID = value; }
        }
        public string PrimaryImage
        {
            get { return Record.PrimaryImage; }
            set { Record.PrimaryImage = value; }
        }
        public string ThumbImage
        {
            get { return Record.ThumbImage; }
            set { Record.ThumbImage = value; }
        }
        public bool IsFeatured
        {
            get { return Record.IsFeatured; }
            set { Record.IsFeatured = value; }
        }
    }
}

ArticlePartDriver.cs

using Orchard.ContentManagement.Drivers;
using Northern.Articles.Models;
using Orchard.ContentManagement;

namespace Northern.Articles.Drivers
{
    class ArticlePartDriver : ContentPartDriver<ArticlePart>
    {
        protected override string Prefix
        {
            get
            {
                return "Article";
            }
        }

        //GET
        protected override DriverResult Editor(ArticlePart part, dynamic shapeHelper)
        {
            return ContentShape("Parts_Article_Edit", () =>
                shapeHelper.EditorTemplate(TemplateName: "Parts/Article", Model: part, Prefix: Prefix));
        }

        // POST
        protected override DriverResult Editor(ArticlePart part, IUpdateModel updater, dynamic shapeHelper)
        {
            updater.TryUpdateModel(part, Prefix, null, null);
            return Editor(part, shapeHelper);
        }
    }
}

ArticleHandler.cs

using Orchard.ContentManagement.Handlers;
using Orchard.Data;
using Northern.Articles.Models;

namespace Northern.Articles.Handler
{
    public class ArticleHandler : ContentHandler
    {
        public ArticleHandler(IRepository<ArticlePartRecord> articlePartRepository)
        {
            Filters.Add(StorageFilter.For(articlePartRepository));
        }
    }
}

Views\EditorTemplates\Parts\Article.cshtml

@model Northern.Articles.Models.ArticlePart

<fieldset>
    <legend>@T("Article Details")</legend>
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.ArticleID, T("Article ID"))
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ArticleID)
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.PrimaryImage, T("Primary Image"))
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.PrimaryImage)
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.ThumbImage, T("Thumbnail Image"))
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ThumbImage)
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.IsFeatured, T("Is Featured"))
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.IsFeatured);
</fieldset>

Placement.info

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Placement>
  <Place Parts_Article_Edit="Content:10"/>
</Placement>

The module loads up correctly and the table is created in the DB, I am just not seeing the fields when i add/edit an Article.

Any help seeing what I cannot see would be appreciated.

Nothing seems obviously wrong to me. Next step would probably be to set-up breakpoints, in the driver for example, and see if they get hit. — Bertrand Le Roy

Kevin Kuebler Kevin Kuebler · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-08T01:54:05

It looks to me like you have everything in place. The one thing I noticed looking at the code is that you don't have the public access modifier on the ArticlePartDriver class. Classes are internal by default in C# if you don't specify them as public. My guess is that Orchard isn't able to create the Driver class because it's not public.

Custom Orchard CMS 1.4 Module Editor Shape Not Rendering

1 Answers