Hi. You don't need to create a new document for keeping just a homepage summary there. Just add yet another text property to your homepage document type, say, "Summary" with an alias "summary". Than you can place this property to your page template in the place you need with the markup:

<summary>
   <umbraco:Item field="summary" runat="server" />
</summary>

I hope it's exactly what you meant.

Hi Rodion,

Thanks - no that's not quite what I mean.

I'd like to display the pagetitle, and the summary of sub page - on the homepage. I have the summary field etc in place on the sub page and just need to know how to get that to dynamically display on the homepage.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

Thanks 

Gut. Then you can create a new macro with a parameter, say, "Summary Page" (with the alias "summaryPage") of the type "Content Picker" and with Xslt like this:

<!-- .... skipped ... -->
  <summary>
     <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetItem(/macro/summaryPage, 'summaryText')"/>
  </summary> 
<!-- .... skipped ... -->

Here: /macro/summaryPage will be resolved to the ID of the page selected by the content picker, and summaryText is assumed to be the name of the required property that contains the summary text.

Thanks.

I created an xslt file called summarypage and it looks like this:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib" xmlns:BlogLibrary="urn:BlogLibrary"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets tagsLib BlogLibrary ">


<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="summaryPage" select="/macro/summaryPage"/>
    
<xsl:template match="/">
 

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I tried to get the code <xsl:value-ofselect="umbraco.library:GetItem(/macro/summaryPage, 'summary')"/> in but it won't save. (summary is the name I have used rather than summary text).

Here's the error:
System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32.
at System.Convert.ToInt32(Double value)
at System.Double.System.IConvertible.ToInt32(IFormatProvider provider)
at System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType, IFormatProvider provider)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Runtime.XmlQueryRuntime.ChangeTypeXsltArgument(XmlQueryType xmlType, Object value, Type destinationType)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Runtime.XmlQueryContext.InvokeXsltLateBoundFunction(String name, String namespaceUri, IList`1[] args)
at (XmlQueryRuntime {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt-debug}runtime, XPathNavigator {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt-debug}current)
at Root(XmlQueryRuntime {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt-debug}runtime)
at Execute(XmlQueryRuntime {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt-debug}runtime)
at System.Xml.Xsl.XmlILCommand.Execute(Object defaultDocument, XmlResolver dataSources, XsltArgumentList argumentList, XmlSequenceWriter results)
at System.Xml.Xsl.XmlILCommand.Execute(Object defaultDocument, XmlResolver dataSources, XsltArgumentList argumentList, XmlWriter writer)
at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.Transform(IXPathNavigable input, XsltArgumentList arguments, XmlWriter results, XmlResolver documentResolver)
at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.Transform(IXPathNavigable input, XsltArgumentList arguments, TextWriter results)
at umbraco.presentation.webservices.codeEditorSave.SaveXslt(String fileName, String oldName, String fileContents, Boolean ignoreDebugging) 

I saved it with this earlier <xsl:value-of select="summary"/> but nothing displayed on the homepage.

My macro is called Summary Page and I have added the parameter summaryPage and selected content picker.

Adding the macro to the homepage is all ok but not working because of the xslt.

Thank you!

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