How to make widgets trigger the HTML.Render automation event

You could try playing around with the options on the overload for Render. Are you adding this code in widget studio, wrapping widget content?

Yeah, I've played with those parameters for 'target' without any luck.

And yes, I added the code in Widget Studio, wrapping the content like this;

But I'd really rather not have to touch the widget code at all.. I'd rather the display of widget bodies either go through the Html.Render event, or have their own render event that I hook into in the Automation rules engine. That or I can intercept their render in C# & do it in a plugin instead.

Yeah, I've played with those parameters for 'target' without any luck.

And yes, I added the code in Widget Studio, wrapping the content like this;

But I'd really rather not have to touch the widget code at all.. I'd rather the display of widget bodies either go through the Html.Render event, or have their own render event that I hook into in the Automation rules engine. That or I can intercept their render in C# & do it in a plugin instead.

Why not just change the references in Widget Studio? Or are you using Generic Content widgets extensively?

Yeah, this might appear in all sorts of places, so editing widgets to wrap HTML output with $core_v2_ui.Render isn't practical.

Any more ideas?

It may be worth either setting up a server-side redirect via your web server or making use of a bot to find out of date references by scanning your community and identifying areas that require changes vs. a global pre-render re-routing automation. Then you'd be fixing it once and be done. 

While you could implement a plugin that could review/filter the output of every page rendering, it's a lot of overhead to incur to handle a clean-up/migration task.

Thanks Ben. Yeah, I'd wondered about the overhead in filtering the output of every page & didn't like the idea.

I'd been running out of ideas, but have come up with a new one which I think will work for us, for our particular use-case (which isn't quite what I asked here).