making a rendermodel more specific more an mvc question but still umbraco related - Templates, (partial) views and macros

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Bill Haggerty 43 posts 177 karma points

Jun 27, 2016 @ 21:18

Making a RenderModel more specific ( More an MVC question, but still Umbraco related)

Templates, (partial) views and macros

Umbraco 7

This is more an ASP.Net MVC question...

namespace Umbraco.Extensions.Controllers
{
    public class ImplementationDashboardController : RenderMvcController
    {
        public ActionResult ImplementationDashboard(RenderModel model)
        {
            var tableModel = new TableEditorModel();
            tableModel =
                (TableEditorModel)model.Content.ContentSet.ElementAt(3).Properties.ElementAt(0).Value;
            return CurrentTemplate(tableModel);
        }
    }
}

What I am trying to do is accept a model that Umbraco is giving, but just give the view the TableEditorModel.

This code works, but I don't think it is very good.

Any suggestions on how to improve this line ?? Or maybe I should do this differently??

 tableModel =
                (TableEditorModel)model.Content.ContentSet.ElementAt(3).Properties.ElementAt(0).Value;

Thanks !!! Bill

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David Peck 687 posts 1863 karma points c-trib

Jun 28, 2016 @ 14:14
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From an MVC perspective I don't see what you're doing is wrong. If you're view inherits from:
```
UmbracoViewPage<TableEditorModel>
```
then you'll still have access to the UmbracoHelper.

As for your long lone, it is rather messy but I'm not sure what you're trying to actually achieve, but I wonder if you're not after something more like:
```
using Umbraco.Web;
model.Content.Children().First(c => c.DocumentTypeAlias == "someDocumentTypeAlias").GetPropertyValue<TableEditorModel>("somePropertyAlias")
```
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Bill Haggerty 43 posts 177 karma points

Jun 28, 2016 @ 18:53

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Thanks, David !!

That is what I was looking for. To me, using numbers like "3" and "0" like in my original case is brittle code.

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