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Vlad 4 posts 94 karma points

Dec 08, 2015 @ 05:15
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Partial view to display list of objects on every page
First of all I'd like to say - I'm new to Umbraco. I watched instructional videos, read docuemntation but still can't figure this one out.

So I have a Person object with some basic properties - name, image, title etc. There will be a page for each person. And also I'd like to display a gallery of persons on every other page - Home, about, etc.

If I'm building pure MVC site I'll create a partial view with a controller that will use IPersonService to get all that data from DB for example. And in my partial view I'll use something like this as a model:
```
public class PersonListViewModel
{
    public IEnumerable<Person> { get; set; }
}
```
How to do this "the Umbraco way"?

Thanks V.
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Maria 34 posts 128 karma points

Dec 08, 2015 @ 10:33
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When you say that there will be a page, do you mean a node in Umbraco? If yes, then what you can do is:
1. For the person page In the pages template simply display properties from Umbraco (using for example Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("name")).
2. For the gallery of persons
On the gallery template make a call to your controller.

Create a controller that gets the list of person objects from Umbraco (using content service https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management/services/contentservice).

The controller should return a partial view with the list as a model.

In your partial view declare the model and iterate through the list of persons displaying the properties you would like to show.

Ex.
```
@model List<Person>
<div>
     @foreach (Person person in Model)
    {
           <p>@person.name</p>
    }
</div>
```
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