Is your code entering the if statement or is adminTopNavigation null?

Where exactly are you using this code?

I am trying to add it to a partial called "topnavigation.cshtml" called from my master template

This is the code on my master template file (master.cshtml) [I removed some of the HTML for simplicity]

@using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.PublishedModels;
@inherits Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Views.UmbracoViewPage
@{
    Layout = null;
}

@await Html.PartialAsync("~/Views/Partials/_top_navigation.cshtml")

This is the code on top navigation

@inherits Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Views.UmbracoViewPage

@{
    // Get navigation from Home Page
    var homePage = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.AncestorOrSelf<HomePage>();
    var topNavigation = homePage?.TopNavigation;
    //var leftNavigation = homePage?.LeftNavigation;

    // Get Navigation based on Admin Settings 
    var adminSettingsPage = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.AncestorOrSelf<AdminSettingsPage>();
    var adminTopNavigation = adminSettingsPage?.TopNavigation;
}




            @if (adminTopNavigation != null && adminTopNavigation.Any())
            {
                @foreach (var adminNavLink in adminTopNavigation)
                {
                    <li class="nav-item">
                         <a class="nav-link text-light fw-bold" href="@adminNavLink.Url">@adminNavLink.Name</a>
                     </li>
                }
            }

                @if (topNavigation != null && topNavigation.Any())
            {

                    @foreach (var navLink in topNavigation)
                {

                    <li class="nav-item">
                        <a class="nav-link text-light fw-bold" href="@navLink.Url" target="@navLink.Target">@navLink.Name</a>
                    </li>

                }
            }

adminSettingsPage is on the root level of the site.. .

What should I use to get the values if not "AssignedContentItem.AncestorOrSelf"

What I am trying to do is create a admin Settings Page from where I can create the top and left navigations.

If I try

var adminSettingsPage = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.ContentAtRoot<AdminSettingsPage>();

I see An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to process this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. C:\Users\yzaragoza\source\repos\BSOInformantV3\Views\Partials_top_navigation.cshtml

'IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'ContentAtRoot' and no accessible extension method 'ContentAtRoot' accepting a first argument of type 'IPublishedContent' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) + var adminSettingsPage = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.ContentAtRoot

I also tested using

 var adminSettingsPage1 = Umbraco.ContentAtRoot;

But then how do I assigned the page to get the content from? I do not see TopNavigation as an option

I see

var adminSettingsPage = Umbraco.ContentAtRoot().First(x => x.ContentType.Alias == "adminSettingsPage");

works well and I am able to do

@adminSettingsPage.Name

to display the page name.

when I run

var adminTopNavigation = adminSettingsPage.Value<TopNavigation>("topNavigation");

What should the namespace be?

I see inside ("topNavigation") is the name of the property I want to get in this case a multi URL Picker...

Overall, what I am trying to do is create a Admin Settings Page that will allow me to create Global Properties like topNavigation (Multi URL Picker) ,leftNavigation (Multi URL Picker), and footerNavigation (Multi URL Picker), etc. and call them from the master template.

The code still asked for a namespace inside of the <>

so I tried:

var adminTopNavigation = Model.Value<System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.Link>>("topNavigation");

When I tested that code and I am getting the following error:

System.NullReferenceException: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'

I am attaching screen shots from my local enviorment so you can hopefully better understand what structure and identify what I am missing.

My Master templae still has the following code

@using Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.PublishedModels;
@inherits Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Views.UmbracoViewPage
@{
    Layout = null;
}

@await Html.PartialAsync("~/Views/Partials/_top_navigation.cshtml")

Thank you so much for your help!

P.S I removed the top_navigation composition and added the properties directly into the Admin Settings Page to hopefully make the solution to this simpler.

Please let me know your opinion on what you would recommend as best practice.

Thank you!!!

that seems to work

To read a property from a settings page in Umbraco 11.1.0, you can use the Umbraco.Core.Configuration.SettingsManager class to get the settings object and then access the property using its name. For example: css Copy code var settings = SettingsManager.Instance.AppSettings; var myProperty = settings["MyPropertyName"]; Replace "MyPropertyName" with the name of the property you want to read. Mybkexperience

I am struggling with the same problem as you. Lucky to read this article, Thank you very much for everyone's help!

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