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Simon 17 posts 37 karma points

Sep 23, 2011 @ 18:28

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How to pass the template ID to a Macro?

Hi,

I'm pretty new to Umbraco and need to know the best way of doing something

I have a macro on a template which calls a .ascx file. I currently pass the PageID which I then use in the .ascx file to return a specific phone number for a specific page.

I'd now like to extend this to be able to display a specific phone number on each page that use a specific Template.

I can get the template ID like this: <umbraco:Item runat="server" field="template"/> but I don't know how to pass that value to my macro.

This is the macro tag I'm currently using:

<umbraco:Macro PageID="[#pageID]" Alias="ControlName" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Simon

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Bo Damgaard Mortensen 719 posts 1207 karma points

Sep 23, 2011 @ 21:07
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Hi Simon,

I'm not sure how to achieve just that, but can't you just fetch the current pages template id from within your UserControl? Like this:
```
Node currentNode = Node.GetCurrent();
Template template = new Template(currentNode.Id); 
```
? :-)

All the best,

Bo
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Simon 17 posts 37 karma points

Sep 26, 2011 @ 13:23
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Hi Bo,

Thanks for your reply.

And thanks for getting me on the right track!
```
Template template = new Template(currentNode.Id);
```
returned an object not set to an instance of an object error. But,
```
Node currentNode = Node.GetCurrent();
var template = currentNode.template;
```
Returned the id of the current template.

Would this be caused by a difference in versions? I'm using 4.5.2.

Thanks again for you help.

Simon
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