Creating Pages and Using the Master Template

Creating a Contact Us Page

We are now going to create a page where we put our contact details. For added functionality, you might want to look at replacing this with a fully fledged contact us form.

Some potential solutions:

• If you're not a programmer you can use the Umbraco built-in package - Umbraco Forms. Umbraco Forms has the added benefit that editors can also create their own forms. Find more information and purchase the product on Umbraco.com.

• Build your own contact form using Surface Controllers.

Creating the Document Type and Template

Let's create a content-only contact page where we can provide a title and some rich text.

1. Go to Settings.

2. Select the ... next to the Document Types in the Settings tree.

3. Select Document Type with Template. The Document Type opens in the content editor.

4. Select an Icon from the list of icons.

5. Enter a Name. Let's call it Simple Content Page.

6. Enter a Description.

7. Let's add two fields with the following specifications:

   Group	Field Name	Alias	Data Type
   Content	Page Title	pageTitle	Textstring
   Content	Body Text	bodyText	Rich Text Editor

   

   Content Page Template with Data Fields
8. Click Save.

9. Go to Templates to view your Simple Content Page template that was created automatically with the Document Type.

10. Select the Simple Content Page template and then select Master as the Master template.

11. Add the following HTML to the Simple Content Page template and click Save.

    <!-- Jumbotron, w title -->
        <div class="jumbotron text-center jumbotron-fluid">
                <div class="container">
                    <h1 class="display-1">Umbraco Support</h1>
                </div>
            </div>
    
    <!-- Main -->
    <section id="main" class="wrapper">
        <div class="container">
    
            <p>Are you a developer?</p>
            <p>Are you a marketer?</p>
            <p>Are you working at an agency?</p>
            <p>Let Umbraco unleash your talent</p>
        </div>
    </section>        

12. Click Save.

Updating the Document Type Permissions

We now need to update the Document Type permissions to specifically add child nodes under the root content node.

To update the Document Type permissions:

1. Go to Settings.

2. Open the Homepage Document Type and go to the Permissions tab.

3. Select Add child in the Allowed child node types. The Choose child node dialog opens.

4. Select Simple Content Page and click Save.

   

Creating the content node

To create a content node:

1. Go to Content.

2. Select ... next to the Homepage and select Simple Content Page.

3. Enter a name for the Document Type. Let's call it Contact Us.

4. Fill in details for the Page Title and Body Text.

5. Click Save and Publish.

Adding the Document Type Properties

To add the Document Type properties:

1. Go to Settings.

2. Select Templates from the Templating section.

3. Go to Master and open the Simple Content Page template.

4. Scroll to the <!-- Jumbotron, w title --> (around line 8) section and highlight the text “Umbraco Support” (around line 11).

5. Click Insert and select Value.

6. Select the pageTitle field from the drop-down list and click Submit.

7. Repeat the same process for the <div class="container"> tag:

   • Highlight the content from the <p> tag (around line 19) to the end of the </p> tag (around line 22).

   • Click Insert and select Value.

   • Select bodyText field from the drop-down list.

   • Click Submit.

8. Click Save.

Viewing the Contact Us Page

To view the Contact Us Page:

1. Go to Content.

2. Select the Contact Us page.

3. Go to the Info tab.

4. Click the link to view the page.

   

Using Document Type Properties from the Homepage

You may notice that the footer is now empty - we don't have the content from our Homepage node.

To use the Document Type properties from the homepage, do the following:

1. Go to Settings.

2. Select Templates from the Templating section, and open the Master template.

3. Highlight @Model.Value("footerText") in the footer (around line 52) and click Insert.

4. Select Value and choose the footerText again from the Choose field dropdown.

5. Select Yes, make it recursive checkbox. This notifies Umbraco to look up the content tree if the field doesn't exist at the node level for the page we're requesting.

6. Click Submit.

7. Click Save.

Reload the Contact Us page to view the content with the footer.