Thank you, that will work, but I'm curious; is there a way to pass the complete model without breaking out the latest post?

That would allow for greater re-usability.

I really appreciate your help I hadn't seen this way of calling the partials in my searching,

I have a lot to learn

Madison

You have a few different ways of doing this in my opinion. Personally, I would put in a controller at this point and have a LatestPost (or LatestPosts) action that retrieves the latest post (or posts) and returns a view for displaying them.

If you wanted to do it all in the view, you end up with a bit of messy behaviour.

So you could change your LatestPost view to look like this:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>

@using ModelsBuilder.APIMode.Models

@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using System.Collections.Generic;
@using ImageProcessor.Web

{
     //assuming your home node is your root node
     var rootNode = Model.Content.Site();
     var latestBlogPost = rootNode.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();

     <div>@latestBlogPost.Name</div>
}

This would make it reusable.

OK, So this is what I currently have

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<MyBlogPost>

@using ModelsBuilder.APIMode.Models

@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using System.Collections.Generic;
@using ImageProcessor.Web

@{

    IPublishedContent npost = Model.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();
    int cid = npost.Id;

    string imageUrl = npost.HasValue("MainImage") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<IPublishedContent>("MainImage").Url : string.Empty;
    string adate = npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("dddd, MMM dd, yyyy");

    string title = npost.HasValue("title") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("title") : npost.Name;
    string extLink = npost.HasValue("externalURL") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("externalURL") : string.Empty;
    bool extYes = extLink != "";
    string auth = npost.HasValue("authorName") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("authorName") : npost.Name;
    string uDate = npost.HasValue("articleUpdated") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleUpdated").ToString("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy") : string.Empty;

    IEnumerable<TagModel> cTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "Categories");
    IEnumerable<TagModel> pTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "posts");


}

Is the example you gave your suggestion for using a controller?

Thanks again for your help Nik,

Madison

And this is without making your suggested change to the Home page calling this partial

Hi Madison,

I got an e-mail saying you've replied but I can't see your response.

I think I saw it before it disappeared so this may or may not apply correctly to what you asked, but yes you could use this partial view update instead of the initial changes I mentioned :-)

Nik

Yes it was wierd, I sent two replies and then hit refresh a few minutes later and my replies were gone.

Here is what I said,

This is what I have currently, before making any changes you suggested.

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<MyBlogPost>

@using ModelsBuilder.APIMode.Models

@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using System.Collections.Generic;
@using ImageProcessor.Web

@{

    IPublishedContent npost = Model.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();
    int cid = npost.Id;

    string imageUrl = npost.HasValue("MainImage") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<IPublishedContent>("MainImage").Url : string.Empty;
    string adate = npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("dddd, MMM dd, yyyy");

    string title = npost.HasValue("title") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("title") : npost.Name;
    string extLink = npost.HasValue("externalURL") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("externalURL") : string.Empty;
    bool extYes = extLink != "";
    string auth = npost.HasValue("authorName") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("authorName") : npost.Name;
    string uDate = npost.HasValue("articleUpdated") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleUpdated").ToString("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy") : string.Empty;

    IEnumerable<TagModel> cTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "Categories");
    IEnumerable<TagModel> pTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "posts");


}

My question was, Is this your suggestion for using a controller.

Thanks for your help, Madison

Hi Madison

Okay, so this is your original view:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<MyBlogPost>

@using ModelsBuilder.APIMode.Models

@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using System.Collections.Generic;
@using ImageProcessor.Web

@{

    IPublishedContent npost = Model.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();
    int cid = npost.Id;

    string imageUrl = npost.HasValue("MainImage") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<IPublishedContent>("MainImage").Url : string.Empty;
    string adate = npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("dddd, MMM dd, yyyy");

    string title = npost.HasValue("title") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("title") : npost.Name;
    string extLink = npost.HasValue("externalURL") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("externalURL") : string.Empty;
    bool extYes = extLink != "";
    string auth = npost.HasValue("authorName") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<string>("authorName") : npost.Name;
    string uDate = npost.HasValue("articleUpdated") ? npost.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleUpdated").ToString("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy") : string.Empty;

    IEnumerable<TagModel> cTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "Categories");
    IEnumerable<TagModel> pTags = Umbraco.TagQuery.GetTagsForEntity(cid, "posts");

}

If you change this line:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<MyBlogPost>

To:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>

And this line:

IPublishedContent npost = Model.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();

to:

IPublishedContent npost = Model.Site().Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();

That should make the View work where ever you want to use it. However if you wanted to go down the Controller approach there would be more changes that would be needed. The Controller approach changes quite a bit of the behaviour so I've not gone down this route here for you but kept it all in the view.

Does that make sense?

If you want me to try and explain the Controller approach I can but not right now. I should be able to draw that up later on today for you.

Thanks

Nik

Thanks again for your time Nik, But this only errors differently. I've tried it with your partial code in the home template and my original renderpartial and the result is the same.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Line 11:     IPublishedContent npost = Model.Site().Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias == "myBlogPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")).FirstOrDefault<IPublishedContent>();
Line 12:     int cid = npost.Id;

The error is line 12

It's been a long night and I'm done, I'm in Texas, so I'll talk to you later.

Thanks, Madison

Hi Nik, Not sure what part of the world you're in but I hope you had a great day or night after helping me.

I would eventually like to solve this but I put all of my working code back in place on my dev server, which is where I've been applying, what you've been helping me with.

According to the Umbraco docs, https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Reference/Templating/Mvc/partial-views Under Strongly typed Partial Views

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<MyModel>

should work, which is exactly what I'm trying to do.

You mentioned earlier that Umbraco was "helping" when I call the partial. Can you tell me why that is happening if the docs tell me to do the above.

It's been a few years, and prior to using Umbraco starting with 7.0.4, since I needed to create controllers but if that is necessary I can do that.

This problem actually arose out of the need to use,

@Html.GetGridHtml(Umbraco.AssignedContentItem, "contentGrid", "CSUSKGrid")

for example, instead of

@Html.Raw(@description)

On the _latestpost partial you were helping with I went to change an editor from rich text to grid for a property named excerpt. I can't figure out how to get access to excerpt in a way that can be used with GetGridHtml without using the model.

I hope the way I've worded this makes sense. Thanks again

Hi Nik, I had to leave everything on the production server running my prior code because I had to get another project underway and my stuff always waits.

I'm going to try your suggestion again next week and once I get it working I may ask you something else but you've been great.

I realized after you said something about assumption that your assumption appears to have been my fault. I had several views open at the same time and I either posted the partial code that went with the blog landing page or hadn't finished editing the latestpost view before posting the code here, can't be sure because I had to back the changes out of the dev box to stay in sync with production.

Thanks again, Madison