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Paul Seal 524 posts 2889 karma points MVP 7x c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 08:04
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Accessing CurrentPage properties in a partial which is using a custom model
Hi all I thought I would share this with you as when I was looking for something like this a while ago, I would have appreciated finding it.

When I have a partial which is declared like this:
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<ContactModel>
```
I am unable to use @CurrentPage to get any properties from the page.

Normally I would make the model inherit from the render model like this:
```
using Umbraco.Web;

namespace MySite.Web.Models
{
    public class ContactModel: Umbraco.Web.Models.RenderModel
    {

        public ContactModel()
            : base(UmbracoContext.Current.PublishedContentRequest.PublishedContent)
        {
        }
    }
}
```
The above would then allow me to use @Model.Content and I'd be able to access the properties that way.

The model I was using this time didn't allow for that. I didn't like the empty constructor.

I found a way of accessing the page's properties without needing to inherit from the render model.

The way I found was to add this to the top of the page:
```
@{
    var thisPage = Umbraco.Content(this.Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id);
}
```
I can now use @thisPage to access the page's properties the same as I would have done with @CurrentPage

I'm sure someone is going to come on here and tell us there is a much better way, but I see that as a good thing. At least we are discussing it.

I hope this post helps someone, if it does, please let me know.

Cheers

Paul
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Alex Skrypnyk 6168 posts 24148 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 11:41

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Hi Paul,

Did you try to use just:

Umbraco.AssignedContentItem

This is you actual current page, if you want strongly typed you have to use Model builders or something like that.

If you use this one

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage

Try to access to data via @Model, without .Content

Thanks, Alex

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Paul Seal 524 posts 2889 karma points MVP 7x c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 12:00
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Hi Alex I did try to use just Umbraco.AssignedContentItem but it didn't allow me to access the properties I had created for the page.

Thats why this one worked better for me:
```
var thisPage = Umbraco.Content(this.Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id);
```
With regards to:

If you use this one

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage

Try to access to data via @Model, without .Content

That doesn't work for me as it is getting the data from my Model, I want to get at the data from the content item.

Thanks for replying though.

Paul
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Alex Skrypnyk 6168 posts 24148 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 12:26

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Paul,

But this is - var thisPage = Umbraco.Content(this.Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id);

One more call to db фтв Umbraco.Content is dynamic, you have all data in the Umbraco.AssignedContentItem, just use

Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.GetPropertyValue

Thanks, Alex

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Alex Skrypnyk 6168 posts 24148 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 12:27

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If you need strongly typed Model use -

https://github.com/zpqrtbnk/Zbu.ModelsBuilder

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Paul Seal 524 posts 2889 karma points MVP 7x c-trib

Jul 23, 2015 @ 13:05

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I prefer to do it that way, but thanks for sharing yours.

Paul

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Liam Dilley 172 posts 402 karma points

Jun 03, 2020 @ 06:56
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Hi Paul, Bit of a fan of yourself as you seem to be one of just a few in the Umbraco sharing your findings with everything especially in regard to Umbraco 8 changes.

Thanks

I been working on custom forms where I have a RenderAction to a surface controller which rendered the partial view for the form.

I needed to fetch current page data - like the associated email so depending on what "Store" you had the contact form on it would mail the right person the submitted data.

I too ran into this issue and was a bit lost about how to access the current page Model while already having the Model data for the form itself (Which also was built from watching one of your videos)
```
var thisPage = Umbraco.Content(this.Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id);
```
This got me what I needed.
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Anthony Southworth 48 posts 175 karma points

Jun 08, 2020 @ 11:26
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I've just been playing around with this and the best solution that I can see is a combination of the above posts:
```
@inherits UmbracoViewPage<ContactModel>

@{
    ContactPage page = (ContactPage)Umbraco.AssignedContentItem;
}

<h1>@page.PageProperty</h1>
```
This seems to be a much better option than inheriting from RenderModel.

Cheers, Tony
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Richard Jackson 17 posts 127 karma points MVP c-trib

Aug 22, 2023 @ 07:03
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Thanks Paul, just used this method in Umbraco 10 and it's worked just fine:
```
@{
    var thisPage = Umbraco.Content(this.Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id);
}
```
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