Doubts about pages and custom controllers for components

Question

Until now I've just only recovered components from Tridion in my DXA using ContentProvider.GetEntityModel. The thing is that now I need to create pages and add components to them. I have created a test page (test.html) with only one component with some text fields.

I have created this controller in my DXA:

In the Global.asax:

I've created a view for my page (MainPage) that only contains this:

I have also a View for the Region Main containing:

I also have a model for my component (with all the semantics necessary):

And a controller (it doesn't do much for the moment), which is the one specified in the component template:

And a view Story (which is the one specified in the component template) containing a simple text.

I have registered all:

I thought that doing this the application would load the main view and then it would enter in each controller associated to the components included (in this case only one), but it keeps failing here:

I don't know if I'm not understanding how this works or if I've configured someting wrongly, could anybody help me here?

Thanks a lot

Mer

Answer 1

It also required to configure meta data of component templates and page template to use custom controllers. Also with the change of controller names you require to change the path of corresponding views. We can relate this with OTBut of the box DXA demo site, Component View's folder name is Entity as component templates are configured to work with EntityController. Similarly for Page Views folder name is Page as it is using PageController.

You should go through documentation to implement custom area and place custom controllers and views there.