Hi Scott

It looks like you have to use the default controller, read more how to do it:

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/routing/custom-controllers#change-the-default-controller

Thanks,

Alex

Hi Alex,

I had tried this already and couldn't get ViewData["Phone"] to display on any page.

CustomStartup.cs:

namespace MySite.App_Start
{
  public class CustomStartup : ApplicationEventHandler
  {
    protected override void ApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
      DefaultRenderMvcControllerResolver.Current.SetDefaultControllerType(typeof(MySite.Controllers.MasterController));
    }
  }
}

MasterContoller.cs:

namespace MySite.Controllers
{
  public class MasterController : RenderMvcController
  {
    public ActionResult MasterMaster(RenderModel model)
    {
      var settingsNode = Umbraco.Content(1065);
      string phone = settingsNode.GetPropertyValue("PhoneNumber");
      ViewData["Phone"] = phone;

      return base.Index(model);
    }
  }
}

Master.cshtml:

@ViewData["Phone"]

Any thoughts on what I may have missed?

Thanks! Scott

Hi Scott

What is an advantage of saving all homepage data to the ViewData?

You can access homepage data with whenever you want with this code:

    var settingsNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1065);
    string phone = settingsNode.GetPropertyValue("PhoneNumber");

You can cache views, cache pages, cache macros, it's not performance expensive operation.

Thanks,

Alex

I want to avoid copying the same code to every template page that will display the same data. That's why I'm looking for a default controller type of operation that every page in the site (mostly the Master page) can access via ViewData.

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