I don't believe so. I've seen mentions of it as I've been learning Umbraco this past week, but I'm not too familiar with what it actually is. It helps make your Models Strongly Typed so you can use shorter calls?

Yes, that's exactly it. It makes life a lot easier. Good explanation on modelsbuilder

Personaly I only use modelsbuilder either in DLL for simple projects or with Modelsbuilder API in more complex projects.

But now for your problem. When I don't use Modelsbuilder I always use HasProperty(""), HasValue("") and GetPropertyValue("") because I find it more readable (personal choice I guess).

I expect the macro to be placed on the FAQ template. So Model.Content is the current IPublished content item (correct me if I'm wrong).

So the basic way when not using Modelsbuilder would be something like this:

        //Check if the property "questions" has a value. Questions is the treepicker //containing the QuestionAnswer as IPublishedContent
        @if(Model.Content.HasPropertyValue("questions"))
        {
          //Loop through the items
          foreach(IPublishedContent questionAnswer in Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("questions"))
          {
            <section class="section">
              <button class="accordion">@questionAnswer.GetPropertyValue("question")</button>
              <div class="container-answer">
                <p>@questionAnswer.GetPropertyValue("answer")</p>
              </div>
            </section>
          }
        }

Please let me know if this worked. I can give you a example in using modelsbuilder to but that will be tomorrow.

Duh... I'm used to intelisense...

It has to be HasValue() in the if

This time with the foreach line with a different error message.

Yes that worked!

So the Model.Content.GetPropertyValue fetches from the current page [FAQ] a custom property "questions" [the treepicker]. The property "questions" is an IEnumerable [meaning you can iterate through using a foreach] of IPublishedContent [a model for the content I need to render]?

The end result is it grabs each of the treepicker items [QuestionAnswer].

We call the field contents using .GetPropertyValue("") because each QuestionAnswer is an IPublishedContent.

And this is how we'd write it without using ModelsBuilder.

Exactly! My example leaves some room for improvement to check if a property exists or if it has a value. But essentially it's as simple as this

Excellent! Thank you so much! I think I understand the ModelsBuilder version from the link you've provided as well.