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Render link to sitelet action in client element
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Hi, say in the Client-Server template I want to place a link to the About action in the Client.Main element, using or replicating the server-side link rendering logic (i.e., the context.Link function).

Is this possible in general?

In this case, one could just pass the link as a string to the control, but what if the client element renders a list of items identified by an id (e.g. items in a shopping cart), which would become an argument for the action (e.g. CartItem of id)?

So far, all I can think of is to render a fake action and pass the result as a string to the client, which would then search and replace the fake action data with the actual... not exactly clean or robust.

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There is no ctx.Link functionality for client-side use, but there are a number of approaches you can take, here are a few:

  1. Generate the components needing id on the server side, where you have ctx.Link.
  2. Redesign your page by moving the action that needs id to the client, and use client-server calls where necessary. IOW, use client-server calls instead of new actions.
  3. Get the URL from the server by passing it the necessary arguments (id) => requires an extra client-server roundtrip, usually not recommended.

Feel free to describe your use case in more detail.

By on 6/9/2015 6:23 AM ()

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