Hi Jakob,

I think what you are looking for is nested content : https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Getting-Started/Backoffice/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors/Nested-Content

Dave

Thanks Dave! Excellent suggestion. It works fine to create type and use it in designer. However I fail to retrieve the properties from nested type, but that might just be a beginners mistake with the umbraco models ...

This is my attempt:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using ContentModels = Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels;
@{
     var home = Model.Content.Site() as ContentModels.Home;
}

@if (home.Images.Count() > 0)
{
    foreach (var image in home.Images)
    {
        var carouselPicture = image as UmbracoTemplatePage<ContentModels.CarouselPicture>;
        <div>@carouselPicture.header</div>
    }
}

This fails with the following message:

CS1061: 'Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage<Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels.CarouselPicture>' does not contain a definition for 'header' and no extension method 'header' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage<Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels.CarouselPicture>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

But I know my nested type has a property named header.

I found this page on nested content: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/getting-started/backoffice/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors/Nested-Content

So I modified my code to this which works:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage
@{
    var items = Model.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("images");

    foreach (var item in items)
    {
        <div>@item.GetPropertyValue("header")</div>
    }
}

But I am slightly confused here. What is the difference with UmbracoTemplatePage and UmbracoViewPage? One seems to be typed and one dynamic? If so I prefer typed. The designer obviously created my initial content as a UmbracoTemplatePage so I guess that is the new prefrerred way. Could I modify my code to fit in a UmbracoTemplatePage?

Hi Jakob,

I suggest you use UmbracoViewPage for the following 2 reasons

• UmbracoTemplatePage inherits from UmbracoViewPage and adds support for dynamics
• If am correct UmbracoTemplatePage will be removed in v8 along with support for dynamics.

I tried to explain the difference between the two in this article for 24 days in Umbraco : https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2015/strongly-typed-vs-dynamic-content-access/

Dave

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