Hi,

This is a .NET error, not an Umbraco issue. It's because you are calling an extension method on MemberProperties.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9925728/templates-can-be-used-only-with-field-access-property-access-single-dimension

Oh, I see. Thanks Hywel, I didn't realise that.

I tried adding .First() so that I would only get a single property, not a list, but it's still giving the same error. I'm kind of a noob, so trying to understand that SO article.

How could I allow a member to edit his picture, which is an image cropper?

Oh, I get it now. A member. MemberProperties is a method.

So will I have to make a new strongly typed model?

I'm working off the top of my head here but I'd probably assign it to a variable first, so something like:

@{
// Rememeber - an exception will be thrown here if there are no items in the
// model where Name == "picture"
var item = profileModel.MemberProperties.First(p => p.Name=="picture");
}

<!-- some markup -->
@Html.EditorFor(m => item, "Umbraco.ImageCropper")

Ok, I hacked together a little piece of code that makes it compile:

        if (profileModel.MemberProperties[i].Alias == "picture")
        {
            @Html.EditorFor(m => profileModel.MemberProperties[i].Value, "Umbraco.ImageCropper");
        }

But this just gives me the JSON string for the imagecropper.

These comments are in the profile editor snippet:

        @* 
            By default this will render a textbox but if you want to change the editor template for this property you can 
            easily change it. For example, if you wanted to render a custom editor for this field called "MyEditor" you would
            create a file at ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/MyEditor.cshtml", then you will change the next line of code to 
            render your specific editor template like:
            @Html.EditorFor(m => profileModel.MemberProperties[i].Value, "MyEditor")
        *@

So what do?

Maybe the problem is that I assumed I could use the Cropper editor as an editor template.

Hey,

I can't really help without seeing more of the code / context etc, but I don't think you need to be using an editor template (this is a sort of partial view), it sounds more like you want to insert the Umbraco Image Cropper itself.

I'm not familiar with this, so unfortunately can't help :( 

Did anyone ever figure this out?

Is it possible to create an editor template that inherits the Image Cropper?

+1 to this query I am currently trying to do this as well.

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