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  • Sarah Marriott 2 posts 82 karma points
    Dec 13, 2018 @ 16:48
    Sarah Marriott
    0

    Noob Question - Partial View Macros

    Hi,

    I am just learning Umbraco, and have been following the tutorials. I have setup my own document types, but essentially replaced the word 'Article' for 'Lesson' for my own purposes.

    I am encountering an error when following this article

    https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Tutorials/Creating-Basic-Site/Articles-Parent-and-Article-Items

    This is specifically in the razor code for the Partial view Macro File

    The error is:

    'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'lessonContents'

    my code is:

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
    

    @{ var selection = Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("lessonsMain").Children("lesson") .Where(x => x.IsVisible()) .OrderBy("CreateDate desc"); }

    @foreach(var item in selection){
        <div class="article">
        <div class="articletitle"><a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a></div>
        <div class="articlepreview">@Umbraco.Truncate(@item.lessonContents,100) <a href="@item.Url">Read More..</a></div>
    </div>
    <hr/>
    }
    

    I have a property in my Lesson document type named accordingly: enter image description here

    Can anyone point out where i may be going wrong?

    TIA

    Sarah

  • Alex Skrypnyk 6150 posts 24110 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    Dec 14, 2018 @ 00:37
    Alex Skrypnyk
    100

    Hi Sarah

    Welcome to our forum!!!

    enter image description here

    Try this code:

    <div class="articlepreview">@Umbraco.Truncate(@item.GetPropertyValue<string>("lessonContents"),100) <a href="@item.Url">Read More..</a></div>
    

    "item" is a PublishedContent class, you can't access property values just by property alias.

    You have to use strongly typed models and models builder, read more - https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/templating/modelsbuilder/

    Or just use as I showed you "item" and GetPropertyValue("propertyAlias") method. Read more about Umbraco helper methods - https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/querying/umbracohelper/

    Post as many questions as you can and we will do great progress in Umbraco learning together with the community!

    Thanks,

    Alex

  • Sarah Marriott 2 posts 82 karma points
    Dec 14, 2018 @ 08:58
    Sarah Marriott
    0

    Thank you Alex,

    I've just tried your code and it works perfectly!

    I'll read the documentation links you've given me - I am really keen to learn Umbraco as I think it could be a fantastic tool.

    Oh, and I will definitely be back here when I get stuck again ;-)

    Thanks again,

    Sarah

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