The partial view needs:

@model CWSStart.Web.Models.ViewProfileViewModel

And you should call it with:

   @{
       Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Partials/Navi.cshtml", 
             new ViewProfileViewModel());   
   }

Hi Warren

The Html.Partial has an overload, that might be useful.

@Html.Partial("ViewName", partialModel)

So depending on how your master.cshtml look, you may be able to pass in the current page like this:

@Html.Partial("Navi.cshtml", Model.Content)

@Seb I am not sure that will work, just tried it.

Because the line won't work as the model is totally different.

var home = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf("CWS-Home");

YSOD that it throws, which is because my view model does not have Content in it.

CWSStart.Web.Models.ViewProfileViewModel' does not contain a definition for 'Content' and no extension method 'Content' accepting a first argument of type 'CWSStart.Web.Models.ViewProfileViewModel' 

Cheers

Warren

Never mind, I missed that you were hijacking. Try what Morten said.

Ps. Why ARE you hijacking and still doing a lot of logic in the view? Isn't the point of hijacking that you can make your views really clean because you can do businesslogic in the controller?
It's a genuine question, I still haven't been able to wrap my head around the benefits of hijacking routes, it seems so unnecessary to me for most things except for maybe cleaning up your view.

@Morten I am unable to do that either as my top level master template/view is using this

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<dynamic>

So I am unable to pass Model.Content as a model to the partial . If i have try to do that I gett this YSOD.

'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper<dynamic>' has no applicable method named 'Partial' but appears to have an extension method by that name. Extension methods cannot be dynamically dispatched. Consider casting the dynamic arguments or calling the extension method without the extension method 

Cheers
Warren

@Seb I am hijacking a route for a custom member profile view
http://site.co.uk/profile/seb

So I have a custom route in the app startup event:

//Create our custom MVC route for our member profile pages
RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(
    "memberProfileRoute",
    "profile/{profileURLtoCheck}",
    new
    {
        controller  = "ViewProfile",
        action      = "Index"
    });       

Here is the controller for binding our member to the ViewProfile ViewModel

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using CWSStart.Web.Models;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using umbraco.MacroEngines;
using Umbraco.Web;
using Umbraco.Web.Models;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace CWSStart.Web.Controllers
{
    public class ViewProfileController : RenderMvcController
    {
        public ViewProfileController() : this(UmbracoContext.Current)
        {            
        }

        public ViewProfileController(UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(umbracoContext)
        {
        }

        public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
        {
            //Get profileURLtoCheck
            string profileURLtoCheck = Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["profileURLtoCheck"].ToString();

            //Create a view model
            ViewProfileViewModel profile = new ViewProfileViewModel();

            //Check we have a value in the URL
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(profileURLtoCheck))
            {
                //Try and find member with the QueryString value ?profileURLtoCheck=warrenbuckley
                Member findMember = Member.GetAllAsList().FirstOrDefault(x => x.getProperty("profileURL").Value.ToString() == profileURLtoCheck);

                //Check if we found member
                if (findMember != null)
                {
                    //Increment profile view counter by one
                    int noOfProfileViews = 0;
                    int.TryParse(findMember.getProperty("numberOfProfileViews").Value.ToString(), out noOfProfileViews);

                    //Increment counter by one
                    findMember.getProperty("numberOfProfileViews").Value = noOfProfileViews + 1;

                    //Save it down to the member
                    findMember.Save();

                    //Got the member lets bind the data to the view model
                    profile.Name                    = findMember.Text;
                    profile.MemberID                = findMember.Id;
                    profile.EmailAddress            = findMember.Email;

                    profile.Description             = findMember.getProperty("description").Value.ToString();

                    profile.LinkedIn                = findMember.getProperty("linkedIn").Value.ToString();
                    profile.Skype                   = findMember.getProperty("skype").Value.ToString();
                    profile.Twitter                 = findMember.getProperty("twitter").Value.ToString();

                    profile.NumberOfLogins          = Convert.ToInt32(findMember.getProperty("numberOfLogins").Value.ToString());
                    profile.LastLoginDate           = DateTime.ParseExact(findMember.getProperty("lastLoggedIn").Value.ToString(), "dd/MM/yyyy @ HH:mm:ss", null);
                    profile.NumberOfProfileViews    = Convert.ToInt32(findMember.getProperty("numberOfProfileViews").Value.ToString());

                }
                else
                {
                    //Couldn't find the member return a 404
                    return new HttpNotFoundResult("The member profile does not exist");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                //Couldn't find the member return a 404
                return new HttpNotFoundResult("No profile URL parameter was provided");
            }



            //Return template with our profile model
            return CurrentTemplate(profile);
        }
    }
}

And here is my view to render the profile out of the member in my site chrome:

@using CWSStart.Web.CWSExtensions
@using CWSStart.Web.Models
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<ViewProfileViewModel>

@{
    Layout = "~/views/CWS-Master.cshtml";
}


<h2>@Model.Name</h2>

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-9">
        <h3>Email: @Model.EmailAddress</h3>
        <h3>Description: @Model.Description</h3>

        <h3>LinkedIn: @Model.LinkedIn</h3>
        <h3>Skype: @Model.Skype</h3>
        <h3>Twitter: @Model.Twitter</h3>

        <h3>Member ID: @Model.MemberID</h3>
        <h3>No Of Logins: @Model.NumberOfLogins</h3>
        <h3>No of profile views: @Model.NumberOfProfileViews</h3>
        <h3>Last Login Date: @Model.LastLoginDate</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="col-3">
        <img src="@(Model.EmailAddress.GetGravatarUrl(250, string.Empty))" alt="@Model.Name" class="img-circle"/>
    </div>
</div>

Hi Warren,

Try to inherit your ViewProfileModel from RenderModel.

It is stated somewhere on this page : http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/custom-controllers

This is how I did it in uCommentsy..

In the layout:

@Html.Action("Index", "uCommentsyContactFormSurface", new { Model.CurrentPage })

    public class uCommentsyContactFormSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        public ActionResult Index(IPublishedContent currentPage)
        {
            // do some stuff

            return PartialView("/Views/Partials/uCommentsy/Forms/uCommentsyFormContact.cshtml", new ContactFormModel());
        }

Hope that helps.

How do I inherit from RenderModel on my custom view model? Tried just doing this but this is not quite right

public class ViewProfileViewModel : RenderModel { [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] public int MemberID { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DisplayName("Email address")]
    public string EmailAddress { get; set; }

    [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
    public string MemberType { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public string Twitter { get; set; }

    public string LinkedIn { get; set; }

    public string Skype { get; set; }

    public DateTime LastLoginDate { get; set; }

    public int NumberOfLogins { get; set; }

    public int NumberOfProfileViews { get; set; }

}

Why do you have the

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<dynamic>

In the master? Seems to me it serves no purpose?

You could go another direction alltogether, and make your navigation a SurfaceController instead, and the call Html.Action()? That would solve the issue?

I have removed the inherits in the top level template/view as you suggested.

Yes it seems it may be the route I have to go, but seems a bit overkill to me to have a surface controller to do a simple navigation.

If I can do it without a surface controller that would be fantastic if anyone can come up with a solution.

Cheers,
Warren

Any resolution on this? I'm trying to get a property from a node with your Warren's new starter kit and am running into the same issue.

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