DefaultPageXML in custom Route

Should just need the ContentFragmentPage node.

Does the pageName attribute need to match the route I'm adding

This is also an INavigable so a URL off the root

So when debugging in the ParseCMDPageContext, group is not null, is page null from 

Nope...it all works and I get a page object back...the route loads, just not the default layout for the page.

If I add widgets to the page and save, it all saves fine as well...just no default configuration on initial load

A few things to check:

1. Ensure that you can import the XML above -- you'll need to wrap it as if it was from an export. Unfortunately, deserialization issues with default page definition XML will not currently be logged.

2. Did you also, by chance, define a factory default in the theme (in filestorage/factorydefaultpages/[theme_id]/[theme_type_id].xml? Any definition in this file will override the route page definition.

3. Is there a default saved for this page already? If so, you should see a revert option when editing the default version of the page.

Thanks Ben...my XML didn't import, so I wrapped it...that imported, but still didn't set the Default when I set it via the Route declaration.  There is no factory default, and no default saved.

When are you adding the page to the navigable controller? Is this when the controller is provided or later? If its later, the default may not be picked up in the resolved/cached theme definition. You could try expiring the UI cache through Administration > About to see if this is the case.

Yes.

        public void RegisterUrls(IUrlController controller)
        {



                var db = new Data.CMSPageDataProvider();
                var pages = db.ListCMSPages();
                var config = Components.CMSPages.ListPageTypes();

                foreach (Entities.CMSPage page in pages)
                {
                    if (page.GroupId.Equals(Apis.Get<IGroups>().Root.Id.Value))
                    {
                        var definition = (from c in config where c.Key.Equals(page.PageTypeKey) select c).First();
                        string defaultXml = Uri.UnescapeDataString(Regex.Unescape(String.Format(definition.DefaultXmlLayout, page.PageKey).Trim())).Replace("\\","");
                        controller.AddPage(page.PageKey, page.RoutePath, null, null, page.PageKey, new PageDefinitionOptions() { DefaultPageXml = defaultXml, ParseContext = ParseCMSPageContext });
                    }
                }

        }

Do you have an example of some XML that would work for the controller.AddPage method?

Yes, this is the definition for the user-customizable homepage:

private readonly string userHomePageXml = @"<contentFragmentPage pageName=""common-home"" isCustom=""false"" layout=""Content"" themeType=""294234b2-9505-40a9-a679-93162fd50c1c"">
    <regions>
      <region regionName=""Content"" >
        <contentFragments>
          <contentFragment type=""Telligent.Evolution.ScriptedContentFragments.ScriptedContentFragment, Telligent.Evolution.Platform::906f3e32e53c4dce8bc495d8c9bd83ff"" showHeader=""False"" cssClassAddition=""no-wrapper with-spacing responsive-1"" isLocked=""False"" configuration="""" />
        </contentFragments>
      </region>
    </regions>
    <contentFragmentTabs />
  </contentFragmentPage>";

public void RegisterUrls(IUrlController controller) {
    controller.AddPage("home", "", null, null, "common-home", new PageDefinitionOptions()
    {
    	ParseContext = ParseUserContext,
    	SetCustomPageOutput = (p, c) => AddHeaders(p, c),
    	TitleFunction = () => _translation.GetLanguageResourceValue("page-common-home-site"),
    	DescriptionFunction = () => _translation.GetLanguageResourceValue("page-common-home-site-description"),
    	DefaultPageXml = userHomePageXml
    });
}

Yes, this is the definition for the user-customizable homepage:

private readonly string userHomePageXml = @"<contentFragmentPage pageName=""common-home"" isCustom=""false"" layout=""Content"" themeType=""294234b2-9505-40a9-a679-93162fd50c1c"">
    <regions>
      <region regionName=""Content"" >
        <contentFragments>
          <contentFragment type=""Telligent.Evolution.ScriptedContentFragments.ScriptedContentFragment, Telligent.Evolution.Platform::906f3e32e53c4dce8bc495d8c9bd83ff"" showHeader=""False"" cssClassAddition=""no-wrapper with-spacing responsive-1"" isLocked=""False"" configuration="""" />
        </contentFragments>
      </region>
    </regions>
    <contentFragmentTabs />
  </contentFragmentPage>";

public void RegisterUrls(IUrlController controller) {
    controller.AddPage("home", "", null, null, "common-home", new PageDefinitionOptions()
    {
    	ParseContext = ParseUserContext,
    	SetCustomPageOutput = (p, c) => AddHeaders(p, c),
    	TitleFunction = () => _translation.GetLanguageResourceValue("page-common-home-site"),
    	DescriptionFunction = () => _translation.GetLanguageResourceValue("page-common-home-site-description"),
    	DefaultPageXml = userHomePageXml
    });
}

Thanks Ben.  I got it working now!  I was saving the default XML for the page in a text box in a Plugin config.  Appears when the text was rendering in the control panel for me to edit, after saving, it was replacing the & with just an &, which the XML compiler didn't like and was logging the exception but not preventing the route from loading.

I pasted in XML from the page export, but when the plugin saved, it got rid of the &