Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Creating carousel using view and controller renderings

In the previous recipe, you learned how to use a custom model to pass data to the view using RenderingModel. In this recipe, we will create carousel using controller rendering and view rendering.

How to do it…

We will first create a template to generate carousel slides:

1. Create a Carousel Slide template, as shown in the following image. Set the Source property of the Image field so that a user can pick carousel images directly from the source media folder. Do the same for the Link Item field.
   
2. Create some carousel slide content items with appropriate field values.
3. We want to show some selected carousel ...