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.NET MVC 5 Sample
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Installation

  1. Ensure that Microsoft’s Internet Information Service (IIS) is enabled on the computer that will be running the .NET MVC 5 sample. For steps on how to enable IIS, go to the How to Enable Internet Information Services page.
  2. Ensure that .NET 4.5 is installed. You can download it from the Microsoft .NET Framework page.
  3. Begin the installation of PrizmDoc for Windows.
  4. After the installation, test the sample application in a browser:

The following will route you directly to the Viewer sample splash page:

http://localhost:18000/PrizmDoc_HTML5_Viewer_NET_MVC

  1. From the splash page you have three options:

Choice of viewer: 

     Select a sample document -OR- upload a document:                                            
  1. Full Viewer:

If you select Full Viewer on the splash page, then documents will be viewed with the full-featured, out-of-the-box Viewer:

  1. Book Reader:

If you select Book Reader on the splash page, then documents will be viewed with the book reader. The book reader demonstrates how the Viewer can be heavily customized:

  1. Comparison Viewer
This feature requires a Microsoft Office enabled PrizmDoc License.

If you select Comparison Viewer on the splash page, then you can upload two Word (.doc or .docx) files to be compared in the Viewer. The Comparison Viewer shows how two Word documents can be reviewed and compared using PrizmDoc:

.NET MVC 5 Sample Directory Structure

The .NET MVC 5 sample is installed under C:\prizm\Samples\dotnet\mvc\. This folder contains all the MVC related folders (Models, Views and Controllers), all the Visual Studio related files and our different viewers which are located on the viewers folder.

PccViewerServices Route

In App_Start/RouteConfig.cs you will find one special route called PccViewerServices. This route will catch all requests made to the application that start with pcc/. The {*pathInfo}fragment is very important as it will be needed by our Controller later on.

PccController

The PccController handles the requests from the route in the previous section. It simply passes the pathInfo information to our own route handler which will handle the request appropriately.

If you are interested in seeing how we handle the requests, please take a look at the source code in Modes/PccViewer.

Folder contents: viewers/full-viewer-sample

The full viewer (with the comparisonMode configuration parameter set to true) is used for document comparison.

File / Folder

Description

viewer-assets folder

Contains the essential JavaScript, CSS, fonts, images, language data, and templates (HTML) that make up the Viewer.

viewer-assets/less folder

Contains less that can be used to build the Viewer CSS. This folder is non-essential, and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/Gulpfile.js

Contains Gulp tasks to build the viewer less and icons. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/package.json

A file used by npm (a package manager). It defines the dependencies installed by npm, which are required to run Grunt and compile the less.

predefinedSearch.json

This data file contains information defining search queries that will appear as selectable items in the full viewer.

Note: This file is consumed by the page Default.aspx and the JSON is injected into the HTML that is returned by Default.aspx. Ultimately, the predefined search terms are provided as a JavaScript hash, when the Viewer is created.

redactionReason.json

This data file contains information defining redaction reasons that are available in the Viewer.

Note: This file is consumed by the page Default.aspx and the JSON is injected into the HTML that is returned by Default.aspx. Ultimately, the redaction reasons are provided as a JavaScript hash, when the Viewer is created.

Folder contents: viewers/book-reader-sample

File / Folder

Description

viewer-assets folder

Contains the essential JavaScript, CSS, fonts, images, language data, and templates (HTML) that make up the book reader viewer.

viewer-assets/less folder

Contains less that can be used to build the book reader CSS. This folder is non-essential, and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/Gruntifle

Contains Grunt tasks to build the reader less. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/package.json

A file used by npm (a package manager). It defines the dependencies installed by npm, which are required to run Grunt and compile the less.

viewer-assets/selection.json

A file used by the IcoMoon application to generate the icons in the book reader viewer.  If you need to add an icon to the Viewer, you can add the icon to this file and use the IcoMoon application (https://icomoon.io) to generate a new icon font. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/js/sample-config.js

Contains references to the assets, web tier, and language files used by the Viewer in this sample.

Folder contents: viewers/e-signer-sample

File / Folder

Description

modules folder

Contains uncompiled assets of the Viewer. These files will be compiled to viewer-assets/js/bundle.js and viewer-assets/css/bundle.css by the build process defined in Gulpfile.js.

The files in this folder are non-essential and do not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets folder

Contains the essential JavaScript, CSS, fonts, images, language data, and templates (HTML) that make up the Viewer.

Gulpfile.js

Contains Gulp tasks to build the viewer js and css files. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/package.json

A file used by npm (a package manager). It defines the dependencies installed by npm, which are required to run Gulp and compile the Viewer assets. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

index.html

The default page for the sample. This page calls the pcc.ashx handler to start a viewing session with the PrizmDoc Application Services and then the page loads the Viewer.

webpack.config.js

Webpack configuration file. This file contains all the settings for the webpack module bundler. We use webpack to compile all the files in the modules folder to the bundle.js and bundle.css that are found in the viewer-assets folder.

Folder contents: viewers/template-designer-sample

File / Folder

Description

modules folder

Contains uncompiled assets of the Viewer. These files will be compiled to viewer-assets/js/bundle.js and viewer-assets/css/bundle.css by the build process defined in Gulpfile.js.

The files in this folder are non-essential and do not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets folder

Contains the essential JavaScript, CSS, fonts, images, language data, and templates (HTML) that make up the Viewer.

Gulpfile.js

Contains Gulp tasks to build the viewer js and css files. This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

viewer-assets/package.json

A file used by npm (a package manager). It defines the dependencies installed by npm, which are required to run Gulp and compile the Viewer assets.This file is non-essential and does not need to be re-distributed.

index.html

The default page for the sample. This page calls the pcc.ashx handler to start a viewing session with the PrizmDoc Application Services and then the page loads the Viewer.

webpack.config.js

Webpack configuration file. This file contains all the settings for the webpack module bundler. We use webpack to compile all the files in the modules folder to the bundle.js and bundle.css that are found in the viewer-assets folder.

 

Configuration with pcc.config

The file pcc.config is used to configure the resources and storage used by the Viewer web tier. This file can be found in the root of the sample folder This file is self-documenting, but a little information about the configuration options is given below.

<DocumentPath>

The sample pulls named documents from this location. The DocumentPath must have read/write permissions in order for the file drag and drop functionality of the splash page to work.

<PrizmApplicationServices[Scheme|Host|Port]>

Specifies how to connect with the PrizmDoc Application Services.

 

Development Information

The MVC 5 sample has the following requirements for development: