Would have thought something as simple as below would work, but does'nt ?

@{
  var parent = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("myotherdocumenttype");
  @Library.If(parent.testProp, "valueIfTrue", "valueIfFalse")  
}

Hi Pete,

Since you are trying to look at a true/false property on another document altogether, my question is what is the relationship between these two? In your first post where you are looping through @Model.myotherdocumenttype, this seems to indicate that "myotherdocumenttype" is one of the direct children nodes (or could also be a property, like a Content Picker). But in your second post, you are looking for a parent/ancestor "myotherdocumenttype" , which scans in the opposite (upward) direction. Knowing how you want to find one document from the other would help a lot here.

On a separate note, be careful when dealing with item._myproperty since it may not actually be a string and can give you a runtime error if it is actually a bool. In fact, when dealing with true/false properties in Umbraco, I've gotten in the habit of usually resorting to a compound condition, just to make sure the type is correct, such as the following:

if (@item.myBooleanProperty.GetType() == typeof(bool) && (bool)item.myBooleanProperty)
{
    <p>Yep it's been ticked!</p>
}

This is mainly to work around when "myBooleanProperty" really isn't a bool, but a string or DynamicNull or regular null or anything else...

Best of luck!

Whoops had an extra "@" sign in there I didn't mean to, so adjust accordingly per context!

Hi Funka

Thanks for the help, i'm starting to get my head round this now, first time i've used razor!

so, i've now got the below, which loops round every document type and tells me if testprop has been set in those pages.

@{
var parent = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(1);
  foreach (var item in parent.Children.Where("testProp")) {
    if (@item.testProp.GetType() == typeof(bool) && (bool)item.testProp)
    {
        <p>Yep its been ticked!</p>
    }
  }
}

But what I really want to do is give change the @model to the specific name(alias) of the document type I want to look for the property in, ie filter @model.AncestorOrSelf(1) to only look for the umbTextpage.

I've tried, @Model.umbTextpage, @Model.Textpage, @Model.AncestorOrSelf("umbTextpage"), @Model.AncestorOrSelf("Textpage") and none of which seem to work.

Actually now i've found that doing this seems to filter the search to the doc type and property i'm looking for, sweet!

@{
var homeNode = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(1);
  foreach (var item in homeNode.Children.Where("testProp").Where("nodeTypeAlias == \"umbTextpage\"")) {
    if (@item.testProp.GetType() == typeof(bool) && (bool)item.testProp)
    {
        <p>Yep its been ticked!</p>
    }
  }
}

So two questions.

1) Is this the best way to look for doc type with property?

2) Do you always have to do a search for a foreach, can you not just use something like:
@Library.If(homeNode.Id == Model.Id, "navSelected","") ?

Pete

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