Passing parameters to a Razor View rendering in Sitecore

Question

I'm trying to render out the brightcove media player right now while passing a dynamic video id. The brightcoveData.Id is a valid guid but I can't seem to get the parameters passing properly so that the Rendering understands it. I get an error from this component saying "Media item are not selected."

var embedMedia = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
            embedMedia.Add("playerId", "E7766078969C3AB892DD158E0E7230B9");
            embedMedia.Add("width", "400");
            embedMedia.Add("height", "300");

            @Html.Sitecore().Rendering("/sitecore/layout/Renderings/Media Framework/Embed Media", new
                               {
                                   DataSource = brightcoveData.Id,
                                   Parameters = embedMedia
                               })

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Ok, after talking to Sitecore Support I got an answer:

@Html.Sitecore().Rendering("/sitecore/layout/Renderings/Media Framework/Embed Media", new
                               {
                                   DataSource = brightcoveData.Id,
                                   Parameters = "playerid=E7766078969C3AB892DD158E0E7230B9&height=300&width=400"
                               })

brightcoveData.Id is just a guid string = "{XXXX-...-etc}". playerid is the Sitecore item id for the player you're using.

That's what the final code looks like and it works great! Thanks everyone

Answer 2

I don't think that you can overwrite default properties with those parameters.

Sitecore will parse those parameters and add them as a KeyValuePair<string, object> object. You can access this object via Rendering.Parameters.

If you wan't to set up your own Datasource and Parameters you would have to use the presentation details in Sitecore and set the Datasource there.