Hi all,

I'm having a bit of trouble creating a Surface controller that validates and processes an enquiry form. I wish to make the display names in my model editable through the Umbraco dictionary so that we can cater for multi-lingual support at a later date.

My model is as follows:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Web;

namespace project.Models
{

    public class EnquiryModel
    {
      [Required]
      [MaxLength(30)]
      [Display(Name="First Name")]

      public string First_Name {get; set;}

      ... 
    }

}

I want to inject the relevant dictionary value from the Umbraco back office into the Display field but so far I have been unable to do so.

My controller is as follows:

using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using project.Models;

namespace project.Controllers
{
  public class EnquiryController : SurfaceController
  {
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Submit(EnquiryModel model)
    {
      if (!ModelState.IsValid)
         return CurrentUmbracoPage();

      return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();
    }
  }
}

And my view is as follows:

@using project.Controllers
@model project.Models.EnquiryModel

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<EnquiryController>("Submit"))
{
   <div class="form-group col-md-6">
      @Html.LabelFor(model => model.First_Name, new { @class = "control-label"})
      @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.First_Name, new { @class = "form-control"})
   </div>
}   

I could technically inject the relevant dictionary values within the view however, because I have a model using statement I cannot inherit from an UmbracoTemplatePage. Because of this, I also had to place my form in a Macro before it would render.

How would I go about accessing the Umbraco dictionary to perform what I need to do?

I'd assume it should be as easy as using the correct namespace in the Model but as with most cases in Umbraco i'm sensing it is slightly more complicated than that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using the latest version of Umbraco.