Hi, thanks for checking. Sorry if I mis-interpreted your answer, but I think I at least managed to get the SearchResults model in what in Paul's code is SearchResults.cshtml as I have the following.

Cannot bind source type Umbraco.Web.Models.RenderModel to model type CodeShare.Library.Models.SearchResultsModel.

The following is my version of SearchResults.cshtml. (named _NewsEntry.cshtml ).

As the name is different, it would be quite understandable if I had errors like "can't find this controller, can't find this partial view" but I'm getting errors in referencing (i.e. @inherits, @using, that kind of things)

Below is my razor, there's some Japanese texts here and there but they are not important syntactically so just ignore them:

@model CodeShare.Library.Models.SearchViewModel
@using CodeShare.Web.Controllers
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

<div class="carousel-inner">
    <div class="carousel-item active">

        <!--this part uses UmbracoTemplatePage to render the content dynamically-->

        @{
            var pageSize = 5;
        IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> newsPosts = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.DescendantOrSelf("news").Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias ==     "newsPost").OrderByDescending(x => x.UpdateDate);
            var page = 1; int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["p"], out page);
            var totalPages = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)newsPosts.Count() / (double)pageSize);

            if (page > totalPages)
            {
                page = totalPages;
            }
            else if (page < 1)
            {
                page = 1;
            }
        }

        @foreach (var item in newsPosts.Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize))
        {
            var imagid = item.GetPropertyValue("image");
            string imgurl = Umbraco.Media(imagid.ToString()).Url;

            <a href="@item.Url" class="media">
                <img src="@imgurl">
                <div class="media-body">
                    <h5 class="mt-0">@item.Name</h5>
                    <span>最終更新日: @item.UpdateDate.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd") </span>
                </div>
            </a>
        }


    </div>

    <!--from here I want to use the custom model, because the input will made by the user not in the backoffice-->

           <!--in my understanding, with this beginform method below, 
               it sends those HiddenFor's as a set of parameters to the method called "SubmitSearchForm" in a controller class called "SurfaceController" -->
    @using (Ajax.BeginForm("SubmitSearchForm", "Surface", new AjaxOptions()
    {
        UpdateTargetId = "carousel",
        HttpMethod = "POST",
        InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,

    }))
    {

        @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.DocTypeAliases)
        @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.FieldPropertyAliases)
        @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.PageSize)
        @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.PagingGroupSize)
        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SearchTerm)

    }
    <button id="submit-button">Search</button>


    <div class="carousel">
        @{ Html.RenderAction("RenderSearchResults", "Surface", new { Model = Model.SearchResults });}
    </div>

    }

and the error is as follows:

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file     appropriately. 

Parser Error Message: The 'inherits' keyword is not allowed when a 'model' keyword is used.


Source Error: 


Line 1:  @model CodeShare.Library.Models.SearchViewModel
Line 2:  @using CodeShare.Web.Controllers
Line 3:  @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
Line 4:  
Line 5:  <div class="carousel-inner">

Source File: /Views/Partials/Home/_NewsEntry.cshtml    Line: 3 

So in my understanding, I don't understand how to pass down the model stipulated by UmbracoTemplatePage or UmbracoViewPage, which both have the interface of IPublishedContent, along with the custom one.

If you happened to know good posts on this, I'd appreciate it if you could give me the link.

Many thanks,

Hello tofu did you find any solution for this problem i am also facing same issue please help

error, Cannot bind source type Umbraco.Web.Models.ContentModel to model type Umbraco.Web.PublishedModels.BigDto.

Hi @Hary,

How do you declare "itsmodel"? Say I want to use a model called Test that's under /Models folder, how do I pass this using correct syntax?