I'm working on implementing sidebar widgets into a site. For every page, editors can choose which widgets to use using the multi-media picker. Each widget type has a docType and Partial for the markup. The widget Partials are loaded based on their docType. In order to do this, I have a sidebar Partial which basically acts as a calls the individual widget Partials.

// sidebar Partial
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>
@{
    var widgets = Umbraco.TypedContent( Model.GetPropertyValue<string>("widgets").Split(',') );
    foreach (var widget in widgets){
        @Html.Partial("Widgets/" + widget.DocumentTypeAlias, widget);
    }
}

Called like:

@Html.Partial("Widgets/Sidebar", @Model.Content);

However, doesn't seem like something that should be a partial, but rather a helper/function or something. I'm pretty much a newb, so I'm wondering if it's best left as a partial or how to create it as a helper?

It might be called like:

@GlobalHelpers.renderSidebar(Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("widgets"));

Any help would be great.