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You can create custom viewmodels already, see https://doc.dynamicweb.com/api/html/c0c19636-f848-e866-6208-ade44285310b.htm

But you cannot create your own version of the existing viewmodels in Dynamicweb. We could easily give you extensibility point for that. Will have that drafted up.

But you can try to change:

@inherits Dynamicweb.Rendering.ViewModelTemplate<Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageViewModel>

to

@inherits Dynamicweb.Rendering.ViewModelTemplate<MyCustom.PageViewModel>
var customViewmodel = new MyCustom.PageViewModel(Pageview);
@Pageview.Template.SetViewModel(customViewmodel)

With a bit of luck, that will do the trick.

BR Nicolai

I have justed tested it quickly and it does not look as a custom viewmodel which inherits from ViewModelBase can be used in page templates (assume paragraph is the same problem). If you write  @inherits Dynamicweb.Rendering.ViewModelTemplate<SomeCustomModel> then it will throw an exception at the point where Dynamicweb attempts to assign a model of type PageViewModel as the model for the template (which is of the type "SomeCustomModel")..

Ah, yes - we have a test for that :-).

Have to discuss with the team how we can support extendable viewmodels

BR Nicolai

Sound great Nicolai, I'm eagerly looking forward to what you come up with :)

In case it is helpful my "shoot from the hip" thoughts would be something along the line of this:

1) Instead of hardcoding the use of PageViewModel/ParagraphViewModel utilize the type from the template.

2) Require that ViewModels on page templates extends PageViewModel and ParagrapViewModel for ViewModels in paragraph templates.

3) Make a virtual function which you call when you are done setting up the ViewModel.

That way you can continue to fill it with data as if it is a PageViewModel/ParagraphViewModel and we can overide the virtual function to ensure we fill our data after your data is avaliable.

Any progress on this?

Anything new on this?

No news...