Select “umbraco item” using razor

Question

I want to write a razor macro MySelectMacro that selects which umbraco:item to be rendered.

my simple structure for this case is two pages -MasterPage and TextPage- and the TextPage contains two fields of type rich-text editor -field_1 and field_2-

this is my try which don't work,

Here is the TextPage template:

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="MainPageContent" runat="server">
        <umbraco:Macro Alias="MySelectMacro" runat="server" />
</asp:Content>

and here is the macro MySelectMacro :

@if (condition)
{
    <umbraco:Item field="field_1" runat="server" />
}
else
{
    <umbraco:Item field="field_2" runat="server" />
}

nb: I'm new in umbraco and razors

Answer 1

You cannot use server tags inside your razor template. tags like:

<umbraco:Item field="field_1" runat="server" />

But you can call

@Model.field_1

Final version should look like that:

@if (condition)
{
    @Model.field_1
}
else
{
    @Model.field_2
}

Check this post about razor macros in umbraco: http://www.diplo.co.uk/blog/2011/6/17/using-razor-in-umbraco-47.aspx

Answer 2

I just stumbled over this answer and for others reading like me: in 2015 and later, it's not @Model.field but @Dictionary["field"] .

It's explained here:

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/templating/macros/razor/using-dictionary-items

Anyway, embraced by quota and bracket your field name does not disturb the rest of the ASP script, even if it contains special characters.

Answer 3

You can't mix WebForm and Razor syntax!

The equivalent of the old umbraco:item in the new Razor syntax would be:

@Umbraco.Field("field_1")

You can also pass in various parameters, including the strip paragraph tags flag:

@Umbraco.Field("field_1", removeParagraphTags = true)