Content Apps

Add Content Apps to your types (coming up in v 3.1). You can use these to display other information related to them. For example you could display the payments done with a voucher. Of course this data has to come from a UI-O-Matic.
Adding a Content App
To add your content app you need to create a class that inherits from IUiomaticContentAppFactory.
    public class VoucherHistoryContentApp : IUiomaticContentAppFactory
    {
        public ContentApp GetContentAppFor(Type type)
        {
            if (type != typeof(Voucher)) return null;
            
            var voucherHistoryApp = new ContentApp
            {
                Alias = "voucherHistory",
                Name = "Voucher History",
                Icon = "icon-calculator",
                View = "/App_Plugins/ContentApps/voucherHistory.html",
                Weight = 0
            };
​
            return voucherHistoryApp;
        }
    }
This voucherHistoryApp ContentApp is a Umbraco Content App. The configuration of the app is the same than other Umbraco apps.
The GetContentAppFor method will get the type being loaded in UI-O-Matic. You can use this type to check if your app needs to load.
To add the voucherHistoryApp app to the collection of apps you need to use a Composer :
  public class ContentAppsComposer : IUserComposer
  {
        public void Compose(Composition composition)
        {
            composition.UiomaticContentApps().Append<VoucherHistoryContentApp>();
        }
  }
Creating your content app view
On the previous step you configured your content app to display a view on /App_Plugins/ContentApps/voucherHistory.html .
For this view to work you will need to use a controller.
    <div ng-controller="voucherHistoryController">
          <!--Your view here-->
    </div>
Controller:
You can get the id of your current item from editorState.id
    angular.module("umbraco").controller("voucherHistoryController",
        function ($scope, editorState) {        
            var id = editorState.id;
​
        //your logic here
    });

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