I'm pretty new to Umbraco, but I have been up and down the forum and video tutorials looking for an answer to this problem:  I have created a new Action for the Media context menu called ActionView and it inherits umbraco.interfaces.IAction.  I want to be able to add properties to this class ActionView.  Everything works as expected, except I can't seem to pass a property value to my instance of ActionView. Here is the code within the class:

private string _path;

Public string Path{
get { return _path; }
set { _path = value; }
}

then in BaseTree_BeforeNodeRender:

ActionView action = new ActionView();
action.Path = "this is the path";
node.Menu.Insert(0, action);

 But the problem is that the value I assigned to Path doesn't show up.  If I assign the private string _path a value within my class, that shows up.  I even tried doing this by adding a constructor to my class that takes a string parameter, but when I run the code, it does seem to ever hit that constructor.  It goes to the default constructor, like it isn't rendering my instance of the class.

Am I missing something? I haven't found a lot of info about passing node property values as properties of a context menu item.  I thought this would be a common need, unless there is a better way of doing this...?

Thanks,

Tyler