Thanks for the response.

So, I have now included this:

public class PolicyController : SurfaceController
{
    public PolicyController(IPublishedContent content) : base() { }

And now receive this error:

Unresolved dependency [Target Type: Umbraco.Controllers.PolicyController], [Parameter: content(Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.IPublishedContent)], [Requested dependency: ServiceType:Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.IPublishedContent, ServiceName:]

Is there a specific Service from Umbraco I'm supposed to be using here? Completely at a loss on where to go from here.

Thanks again for your time.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I do have that injection in the View Model. Was told to put it in the Controller so I did that and that's when I got a different error.

I did use your method of passing in my hompage as the IPublishContent to the controller. I still can't seem to access anything in my View.

My issue and what I need to do is to use the master.cshtml in my custom Views and they use things like Model.Root() pull our navigation in the Header and Footer from code like the following: FOOTER @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage

 <ul class="footer-nav-items" aria-label="Menu" role="menubar">
        @{
            var homeChildNavSelection = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("fbeb2b-77cc-4286-9ac0-d3de4c749b"))
            .Children()
            .Where(x => x.Value<bool>("footerNavItem") == true);
        }
        @foreach (var item in homeChildNavSelection)
        {
            <li role="none">
                @if(item.Name == "Calendar"){
                    <a href="@item.Url?pageId=1484" role="menuitem">> @item.Name</a>
                } else if(item.Name == "Forms"){ 
                    <a href="@item.Url?pageId=1174" role="menuitem">> @item.Name</a>
                }
                else {
                    <a href="@item.Url" role="menuitem">> @item.Name</a>
                }
            </li>

        }  
    </ul>

HEADER

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage

@using Umbraco.Web;

@{

var site = Model.Root();
var selection = site.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible());
var global = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("5c0ef-56b5-4884-a7e-56101c9bde"));

}

        <img src="@(global.Value<IPublishedContent>("headerLogoColor").Url)" alt="" />

Overall I guess would it be possible to get access to some of these values and if so, how would I access them through the View? Or how would you access that homePage via the View? Guessing I can send in the siteRoot via something like that and see if I can use that.

Thanks again for everything!

Still not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish. If you declare a variable in one view you can't access that variable in another view unless you use tempests or viewbag variables, jusetting var variable = value gives you a local scoped variable for that view.

What exactly do you want to access in your view? If it is a property in your site home page then you can get that easily enough but please explain more about what you are trying to do. I'm still not sure exactly what you need.

On top of this note and reading more on this topic: Does anything have to be setup in the backoffice for any of this to work? That is something that has not been done.

I just assumed I could download Nuget Umbraco, install it and create the necessary folders for the controllers and views (as I have done and route there with /umbraco/surface/Controller/Page. Now when trying to load the built in Master page with navigation is where my issues come in. Can I get access to any of the navigation elements or is that a different or special setup that must go through the backoffice?

Forgive my ignorance.

Hi Jo,

Just a few questions if you don't mind so I can figure out where in the process you are and what you have done.

I assume after you installed via nuget hat you opened the website to run the configuration which will have installed the default starter kit, is that correct? (I'm assuming it is since you have a default master page)

What do you mean by 'Now when trying to load the built in Master page with navigation' ? you wouldn't normally load the masterpage it is just a template for the layout of other pages.

Sorry Huw,

I did use bad terminology, by load I simply mean using it as a layout. I commented out all of the code that was Umbraco specific to get the page to display. Specifically removed the header and footer navigation as stated above.

At this point in time, I'm just going to assume I am not allowed to do what I am trying since all I get is null values when attempted.

Since I can create the controllers and views and can pull them up from /umbraco/surface/Controller/View links then I can re-write what I have via the back office and use Ajax to gather the information to display on screen. I preferred not to go this route, but think it's my only option at this point in time.

Possibly you just need to do it differently, perhaps you could post the code for a simple view and I can point you in the right direction to achieve what you want.