Hi The Dude

A few approaches here, you could as you suggest check for the document type alias in your master layout view eg:

  @if (Model.Content.DocumentTypeAlias == "Home")
                        {
                            <div class="banner-holder">
                               @{ Html.RenderPartial("Banner");}
                                     </div>
                        }

                        }
                        else
                        {
                            <!-- no banner thing -->
                        }

or you could define a section...

In your master view, you can define a section like so:

 @RenderSection("BannerSection", false)

(false here means the section is not required on any views inheriting the master layout view)

Then in your homepage template, you can specify what you want to appear in this section like so:

@section BannerSection {
    <h2>Hello Banner</h2>
 @{ Html.RenderPartial("Banner");}
}

what you put in this section in the homepage view, will appear in the position in the master view where you have put @RenderSection, if that makes sense ?

leaving out the @section on other templates means nothing will be displayed here.

Another approach similar to the first, would be to have the banner be some kind of content picker property, so the banner could be picked on other page layouts; and then use whether or not this picker has something picked to decide whether or not to render any html in the Banner Render Partial...

@if (Model.Content.HasProperty("bannerPicker") && Model.Content.HasValue("bannerPicker"))
{
    bannerContentId = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<int>("bannerPicker");
    bannerContent = Umbraco.TypedContent(bannerContentId);
    <h2>@bannerContent.Name</h2>
    <!-- Render the banner -->
}
else
{
    <!-- don't render the banner -->
}

Hi, thanks very much, it would appear I was simply missing the model content. It works a charm.

However, although it is now working with option 1, I like your banner picker approach better, the option of enabling and disabling based on a check box on a page is a more logical approach going forward.

One thing however, in my CSS I have defined how the banner will sit. However once it is loaded in the browser, the grid is being loaded with some additional code which is messing stuff up. Do you know where these grid classes are defined, so I can remove them?

<div class="umb-grid">
<div class="grid-section">

Thanks again.

No matter. Found it under grids :)

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