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David Gregory 88 posts 234 karma points

Sep 15, 2015 @ 09:42

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User editable content snippets?

Hi guys

Sorry if I am bombarding the forum, lost of newbie questions I'm afraid.

I want to have section of content that can be edited by my users but the content in itself is not a page.

For example, it could be contact details that would appear in the footer of every page. I could easily hard code this into the footer of the template but that way a user couldn't edit the details if the need arose.

Can I give them a section where they can edit snippets of content that can then appear at various places throughout the site?

David Umbraco 7.2.8

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LeszekP 27 posts 78 karma points

Sep 15, 2015 @ 09:48

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Hi David,

Create doctype - UserEditableContatWrapper. Under that add doctype with properties you want, like a textstring, call it footerText. Add property umbracoNaviHide and set it, so it won't be rendered in menu.

In template render it.

Hope somebody could better explain it to you.

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Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib

Sep 15, 2015 @ 10:00
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Hi David,

Here is the way how I would solve this. I assume that you have a frontpage document type (http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/what-is-a-document-type/)

On the frontpage document type I would create a tab called site settings. In there I would add fields for the address. It could be text strings data types or it could be one multiple textbox. http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/properties/ and http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/data-types/

Then you would need to get the data out in your template, this can simple be done using this.
```
@Umbraco.Field("propertyAlias", recursive: true)
```
You will need to change the propertyAlias to your alias of the field that you want to pull out

It´s also on the site settings tab I would add e.g Google analytics id field and stuff like that.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis
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David Gregory 88 posts 234 karma points

Sep 15, 2015 @ 10:07

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With that option, do all other doctypes have to inherit from the frontpage?

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Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib

Sep 15, 2015 @ 10:18

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Hi David,

No, they sould not in inherit, the recursive: true goes up in the content tree until it finds the field, and the field has a value.

Try to see this videos as well, I am sure that they can help you too.

http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/master-document-type/

http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/templating/introduction/

/Dennis

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David Gregory 88 posts 234 karma points

Sep 15, 2015 @ 10:21

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I'll give that a whirl, thanks.

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David Gregory 88 posts 234 karma points

Sep 15, 2015 @ 13:05

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That worked perfect. Quick question though, how would I do the same thing with an image? If I had a media picker on the homepage that represents a banner image?

i've been using this to get it once:

<img src="@Umbraco.Media(CurrentPage.bannerImage).Url" ...

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Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib

Sep 15, 2015 @ 18:27
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Hi David,

If you want to use the a media picker on the homepage, then you can get the image using this Razor.
```
@{ 
    if(CurrentPage.HasValue("bannerImage")){ 
        var bannerImage = Umbraco.Media(CurrentPage.bannerImage);
        <img src="@bannerImage.umbracoFile alt="@bannerImage.Name" />
    }
}
```
Hope this helps,

/Dennis
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