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Linx 98 posts 258 karma points

Oct 19, 2023 @ 11:37

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Get Property value from page/Doc type

Hi guys

Been going over a few tutorials on Umbraco 10 and i have a few pages created as below (Home has a Home document type and all Child pages have Child Doc type)

Home
==Child 1
==Child 2
==Child 3
==Child 4

On the homepage i would like to display a list of Children with their page link and any additional properties i have.

I created a new controller inheriting from SurfaceController but this doesnt seem to work - my assumption is this Controller is only for Submitting forms?

I then decided to use UmbracoApiController but that looks to be useful for creating packages.

Could anyone help me get back on track with this please

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Huw Reddick 1929 posts 6717 karma points MVP 2x c-trib

Oct 19, 2023 @ 11:53
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Hi Linx,

To get the cild pages on your homepage you can just do
```
var children = Model.Children();
```
Which returns an IEnumarable<IPublishedContent>
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Linx 98 posts 258 karma points

Oct 19, 2023 @ 13:07

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Hi Huw

That partially works but i cant get access to any of the properties i created.

It seems to be returning IPublishedContent like you rightly mentioned but how would i go about converting it to a Child Doc type?

I could do it the old way by looking for the property name (something like .GetProperty("name") but i was hoping for a strongly typed approach (I am using models builder).

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Huw Reddick 1929 posts 6717 karma points MVP 2x c-trib

Oct 19, 2023 @ 13:43
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If you are using ModelsBuilder, you should be able to cast the results
```
foreach (IPublishedContent childpage in Model.Children())
{
    var strongchild = (ChildDocType)childpage;
    var tagtest = strongchild.MyTags;
}
```
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