How to pass down info to all pages in Umbraco

Question

How does the info used in master template as umbraco items get passed down to child templates?

Master template
        Child template 1
        Child template 2

In Master template I have

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

The field training is text that is entered in umbraco's content tab. This info needs to be entered once and displayed in page placeholders that use Child template 1 and 2.

amelvin amelvin · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-31T00:08:22

If the doctype of the master template contains this training field, the value can be picked up in the nodes that use child templates - using the recursive options.

I've done this with macros, where to get the training item in a child (but set in the master) you use the '$' prefix (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/templates/umbracomacro-element/macro-parameters/advanced-macro-parameter-syntax):

<umbraco:macro alias="macroAlias" parm1="[$training]" runat="server"/>

Recursive items are less often done (I don't know if I've ever used this technique - it is more common to use a macro containing razor/ascx or xslt for repeated content). In this case you want to pick up a recursive item value (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/xslt-useful-tips-and-snippets/settings-in-root-node-and-value-from-recursive-search) so you'd use:

<umbraco:Item field="training" recursive="true" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>

In both cases umbraco will check the current node for the value, before looking at parents.

How to pass down info to all pages in Umbraco

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