Sitecore Controller Rendering DataSource

Question

I have a component in Sitecore that can be used in the middle section of the page. It shows a video and is setup as a controller rendering in Sitecore. I have been able to get this to work by setting the DataSource on the rendering on the page item.

I have another component for the middle section of the page. This is a list of videos. Each video output has the exact same HTML as the rendering mentioned in the previous paragraph. I'm trying to call the controller rendering (mentioned above) in the rendering for this list rendering something like this -

@Html.Sitecore().Controller("VideoController", "Display")

I'm trying to set the DataSource in/before calling the .Controller function but I haven't found a way to do it. I'm looking for some answers on how to set the DataSource or call a controller rendering from another rendering.

Thanks

Answer 1

This should be possible by statically binding the renering and add the datasource as a parameter:

@Html.Sitecore().Rendering("<your rendering definition item id>", new { DataSource = "<your datasource item id>" })