Hi All

I've a small address box (usercontrol), which is repeated across the site but depending on the page layout, the address box will appear in a different positions. To save the content editor having to update duplicate versions of the address box, I thought a usercontrol would be the best approach.

From Umbraco, the macro has been added to the homepage template.  Properties have been added to the DataType, so that the usercontrols fields can be updated via the homepage. 

 <umbraco:Macro  Address="[#addressText]" Telephone="[#telText]" Email="[#emailText]" CompanyNo="[#companyText]" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

This approach works fine on the home page, but not on any other pages, where the default property values are loaded from the usercontrol.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Text;

namespace companyAddress
{
    public partial class companyAddress : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            if (!Page.IsPostBack) {
                addresslbl.Text = _address;
                telephonelbl.Text = _telephone;

                StringBuilder emailLink = new StringBuilder();
                emailLink.Append(string.Format("<a href=\"mailto:{0}\">{0}</a>", _email));
                emaillbl.Text = emailLink.ToString();

            }
        }

        //properties
        public string Address
        {
            get { return _address; }
            set { _address = value; }
        }
        public string Telephone
        {
            get { return _telephone; }
            set { _telephone = value; }
        }
        public string Email
        {
            get { return _email; }
            set { _email = value; }
        }

        //Properties
        private string _address = "The Street";
        private string _telephone = "01234 567 789";
        private string _email = "[email protected]";

    }
}

As you can see there's not much to the usercontrol.  If possible I would like to update the default fields in the usercontrol, from the home page.  And then within each content page template, add the usercontrol as normal using:

<ef:CompanyAddress ID="addressBox" runat="server" />

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appericated.

Umbraco Version:4.0.4.2
IIS 7
Asp.Net 3.5

Thanks

Eddie