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What about creating your own template parameter, render it internally and then return its output in RenderFrontend?

Imar

Hi Imar,

Yes, that is an option, but still I cannot see the use of the function just returning a string to the template. The method should at least be able to handle a template.

Best regards, Anders

Why a template? In the end, all you need is HTML that gets sent to the browser. Here's an excerpt from the PostDanmark provider:

public override string RenderFrontend(Order order)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ShippingProviderTemplate))
    {
        var template = new Template(ShippingProviderTemplate);
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(template.Html))
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }

        template.SetTag("Order.IsComplete", order.Complete);

        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Address", order.CustomerAddress);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Address2", order.CustomerAddress2);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.City", order.CustomerCity);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Country", order.CustomerCountry);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Country.Code", order.CustomerCountryCode);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Region", order.CustomerRegion);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.Zip", order.CustomerZip);
        template.SetTag("Order.Customer.ZipCode", order.CustomerZip);

        ...
        
        RenderServicePoint(GetServicePoint(order), template, true, "ServicePoint.");

        return template.Output();
    }
    return base.RenderFrontend(order);
}

which is how I envisioned it: an interal template, that emits HTML in RenderFrontend.

Does that help?

Imar