Hello,

Do you post to a Surface Controller? In there you have the CurrentPage property in which you can acces properties of your current node.

For example:

CurrentPage.GetPropertyValue<string>("title")

Jeroen

Hi Jeroen thanks for getting back to me.

I am posting to a Surface Controller. I tried your solution and the error I'm getting back is:

Cannot find the Umbraco route definition in the route values, the request must be made in the context of an Umbraco request

My Controller is declared like so:

    public class ContactSurfaceController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController

    {

        [HttpPost]

        public ActionResult SendMail(Contact form)

        {

            var test = CurrentPage.GetPropertyValue<string>("myTestProperty");

        }

   }

I'm rendering the form in a partial like this

@using (@Ajax.BeginForm("SendMail", new { controller = "ContactSurface" }, ajaxOptions: new AjaxOptions

{

    HttpMethod = "POST", 

    InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = "target", 

    OnFailure = "ShowError()", OnSuccess = "ShowSuccess()" }, htmlAttributes: new { @class="form-horizontal" }))

{

Any idea why I can't access the property?

Hello,

Maybe these topics can help:

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/ourumb-dev-forum/bugs/44643-umbraco-route-def-missing-from-RouteDataDataTokens

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17532639/basic-umbraco-6-1-1-surfacecontroller-questions

Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,

I wasn't able to get to the bottom of this the way I would have liked. My issue does not seem to be down to the Umbraco behaviour noted in your first link. I think that the root of is might be in me using @Ajax.BeginForm instead of @BeginUmbracoForm. But for my purposes I wanted to use @Ajax.BeginForm.

I have resolved it now by passing in the node id as part of the form post vars. Then within the Controller I grab the Umbraco node of that ID and query the property that I want to get:

 @using(@Ajax.BeginForm("SendMail", "Contact", new {nid=UmbracoContext.PageId},ajaxOptions: new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "POST", InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = "target", OnFailure = "ShowError()", OnSuccess = "ShowSuccess()" }, htmlAttributes: new { @class="form-horizontal" }))
    {
       ... 
     }

And then in the Controller:

    umbraco.NodeFactory.Node contactNode = new umbraco.NodeFactory.Node(Convert.ToInt32(nid));
    string companyEmail = Convert.ToString(contactNode.GetProperty("myProperty"));

I know it's not ideal but it gets me over this hump!

Thanks again,

Alan

That could be it alright :)

Hello,

Could you mark a post as resolved if it helped you?

Jeroen

Don't forget to re-add/not-delete the two keys below in the Web.config if your using @Ajax.BeginForm when upgrading. Took hours to realise my mistake!

 <add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true"/>

<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true"/>

thanks John :)

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