Hello everyone,

I am following a tutorial (posted here) which explains a way to create footer navigation. I'm setting a NaviHide Property within the pages I don't want to show, and also using 'umbracoRedirect' to push me to the pages I do. My Footer Nav macro also has a "Source" parameter that I am passing along as a Content Picker when inserting it in the template. The redirect portion is fine, but I am getting stymied when trying to complete the last portion, which is to create a macro which shows certain pages. Here is the macro in question (created as a Partial View Macro):

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

var parent = @Model.NodeById(Parameter.Source);
if (parent != null) {
        <ul>
            @foreach (var item in parent.Children.Where("Visible")) {
                <li>                    
                    <a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>                    
                </li>
            }
        </ul>
    }

However, when running the page, I get an unhelpful "Error Loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/FooterNav2.cshtml)" message.

I've tried recreating it as a regular Partial View in the Settings Menu, which at least gives me a compilation error message. The error says "CS1061: 'Umbraco.Web.Models.PartialViewMacroModel' does not contain a definition for 'NodeById' and no extension method 'NodeById' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Web.Models.PartialViewMacroModel' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

The offending portion of my code is the "var parent = @Model.NodeById(Parameter.Source);" line. Is there something else I should be using besides "NodeById"? Is it even possible for me to grab a specific page and say I want all of its children so that I can display them as a menu?

On a related note: I am continually frustrated by not knowing what properties, methods, and data I can access from a Partial View. Is there any sort of reference that shows these items? Is there anything I can add to my URLs to debug things? I'm swimming blind out here, even after having gone through the Implementor video tutorials.

Thanks and bless ya...