Umbraco Razor - binding content fields

Question

I've created a template (View) in Umbraco (MVC) and am trying to figure out how to bind to the document type content. Keeping it really simple:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = null;
}

<h1>@Model.Title</h1>

My Umbraco document type has a Title field (alias is 'title') but if I try and run this I get build errors. I've found a whole load of documentation suggesting using a Library.NodeById() method but I believe that's for WebForms and not MVC. Can anyone offer some guidance?

Morten OC · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-14T19:17:39.400

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You can get a property value in multiple ways with Model::

@Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("title")

@Model.Content.GetProperty("title").Value

And as a dynamic

@CurrentPage.Title

Did you remember to add your template to your document type?

edited Feb 14 '14 at 19:17

answered Feb 14 '14 at 18:48

Morten OC

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Yes I did add a template to a document type - those are useful thanks. Out of curiosity do you know if you can make an MVC Model based on a Document Type for strongly typed binding? – Ian Feb 14 '14 at 18:54
No, unfortunately not. I've never seen that before. Only if you make your own model and bind that to your view. – Morten OC Feb 14 '14 at 19:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '14 at 17:18

You can also use the Field helper method:

@Umbraco.Field("myFieldName")

nice thing about this helper is that you can also specify alternative fields (if the first one was empty.

You can find this back in the documentation: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/templating/Mvc/views#RenderingafieldwithUmbracoHelper

Umbraco Razor - binding content fields

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