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    <p>I am having a weird issue, hoping you all have some pointers. I am using Umbraco 4.11.10 and trying to fulfill a requirement to display 1 random quote from a collection of quotes. The really puzzling thing is that this exact code works on a different site using the same version of Umbraco.<br> The Quote object only has two properties...quoteText and quoteSignature. Here is my entire razor script (which currently fails).</p> <pre><code>@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext @{ var item = @Model.NodeById(1113).Children.Random(); &lt;div&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;@item.quoteText&lt;span&gt;- @item.quoteSignature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/div&gt; } </code></pre> <p>If I strip out the div and block quote and all of that and just leave</p> <pre><code>var item = @Model.NodeById(1113).Children.Random(); </code></pre> <p>it still fails.</p> <p>If I remove Random() and output the @item variable it is a DynamicNodeList. If I do something like..</p> <pre><code>foreach(var child in item) { &lt;div&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;@child.quoteText&lt;span&gt;- @child.quoteSignature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/div&gt; } </code></pre> <p>It works, but of course I get all of the quotes. So I guess that at least proves that the data is valid, and the property names are valid. Just seems to be an issue using Random(). As I am pretty new to Razor I'm hoping this is just an oversight on my part.</p> <p>*<em>UPDATE *</em> The error from the error log is as follows</p> <pre><code>2013-09-03 19:34:00,142 [11] WARN umbraco.macro - [Thread 24] Error loading MacroEngine script (file: CFRandomQuote.cshtml, Type: ''. Exception: Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: 'umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeList' does not contain a definition for 'Random' at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object , Int32 ) at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute2[T0,T1,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1) at ASP._Page_macroScripts_CFRandomQuote_cshtml.Execute() in c:\inetpub\cf\macroScripts\CFRandomQuote.cshtml:line 5 at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.WebPages.WebPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) at umbraco.MacroEngines.RazorMacroEngine.ExecuteRazor(MacroModel macro, INode currentPage) at umbraco.MacroEngines.RazorMacroEngine.Execute(MacroModel macro, INode currentPage) at umbraco.macro.loadMacroScript(MacroModel macro) at umbraco.macro.renderMacro(Hashtable pageElements, Int32 pageId) </code></pre> <p>Thanks Everyone!</p>
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    1. COShould that be `@child.quoteText` etc. in the code not `@item.`?
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    2. COyep - copy paste error. I updated the snippet - thanks!
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    3. COCould you update the question with the error from the log files? There should be a stack trace showing what the error is. They're located at ~/app_data/logs/
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