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Currently all Coveo UI components are initialized through Experience Editor. Setting their appropriate properties. Is there a way to initialize them through code? Example CoveoSortFieldView.cshtml and CoveoFacetView.cshtml
I would like to reference them in code and load a perticular facet instead of going through EE.
Using Coveo for Sitecore 4.
Yes you can. You can simply use a reference to the rendering. Be aware that you will also need to pass a datasource reference with the rendering for the options.
So:
1- Create a parameters item which you will use as a datasource, the template of these items is in the template/coveomodule folder.
2- Pass the refference of the rendering and your datasource item in your code.
Here is an example for the search box in a cshtml header:
<!-- The resources first -->
@Html.Sitecore().Rendering("{id-of-the-search-box-resources}")
<!-- Then the search box item -->
@Html.Sitecore().Rendering("{id-of-the-search-box-view-rendering}", new { DataSource = "{parameters-item-of-the-search-box-view}" })
{parameters-item-of-the-search-box-view}. I'd imagine this depends on the type of rendering but an example should help me greatly.
– xoail
Dec 6 '16 at 15:21
{parameters-item-of-the-search-box-view} should be the GUID of an item in the content tree. That item should use the template for the type of datasource parameters of the search box.
– Jean-François L'Heureux
Dec 6 '16 at 22:30
/sitecore/templates/CoveoModule/Search/Facet Parameters template and set its ID as my rendering's datasource?
– xoail
Dec 7 '16 at 3:13
