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How do I access custom TextBox field in a default Blog Post document type?

I have added a Textbox field named excerpt to the default Blog Post document type in Umbraco 7. Umbraco reports a compilation error when it tries to access the data in that excerpt field.

In my template:

@{
    var recentblogpost = Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("BlogPostRepository").Children("BlogPost").Last();
}

@recentblogpost.Name, @recentblogpost.excerpt

Getting @recentblogpost.Name or @recentblogpost.Url succeeds. Only the custom fields I add such as @recentblogpost.excerpt don't succeed. I have tried switching the capitalization case to @recentblogpost.Excerpt.

The error which is reported:

Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'excerpt' and no extension method 'excerpt' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Solution

  • This snippet worked. @recentblogpost["excerpt"]