how do i grab a property from the homepage for child pages

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Lee Fear 7 posts 97 karma points

Sep 23, 2019 @ 11:50

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How do I grab a property from the homepage for child pages

I have a master page and I want to display the footerText property of the homepage in the footer of the masterpage. This works fine for the homepage but child pages display nothing as I imagine the property does not appear on these and so the masterpage can not get hold of it.

How do I get hold of the footerText property in the homepage and display it correctly in the masterpage so that is shows on all child pages?

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Jonathan Distenfeld 105 posts 618 karma points

Sep 23, 2019 @ 12:17
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Hi Lee,

this should give you an idea of how to achieve this:
```
@Model.AncestorOrSelf<HomePage>().FooterText
```
Assuming your homepage has doctype "HomePage" and current content is a child from your homepage. If you have problems using this, please provide some information about your structure.

I hope this helps,

~ Jonathan
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Lee Fear 7 posts 97 karma points

Sep 23, 2019 @ 12:31
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I have just tried that code as follows
```
<div>Footer Stuff @Model.AncestorOrSelf<HomePage>().FooterText</div>
```
I get the following error

Compiler Error Message: CS1503: Argument 1: cannot convert from 'method group' to 'HelperResult'

The home page is the root page and the page I am trying to display on is a direct child of the homepage. They are the only 2 pages in the site at the moment.
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Jonathan Distenfeld 105 posts 618 karma points

Sep 23, 2019 @ 12:49
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Hi Lee,

in Razor you are not able to use generic types directly like this. Try following:
```
@{
    string footerText = Model.AncestorOrSelf<HomePage>().FooterText; 
}
<div>Footer Stuff @footerText</div>
```
~ Jonathan
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Lee Fear 7 posts 97 karma points

Sep 23, 2019 @ 12:57

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Awesome thanks. That works a treat!

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