Can a Child Page (via Page Include) use the Model of it's Parent?

I think I understand your question. The answer is yes and no. The page builder ui doesn’t have the models from the parent to reference, but you can manually alter the XML to achieve the desired result.

You can however make use of Master and Child pages where the models on the Master page is available to the Child Page. The models in the pic that are dimmed are from the Master page.

Thanks for the quick response, Pat. So are you implying that when a parent page has, let’s say the Account model, and the child also has Account, that the finished page will only leverage one model? Sorry if I’m reading into your explanation.
I’ll try the XML approach as well. Thanks!

Not really. The Account model on the parent page can be accessed by the child page if it indeed has been loaded into it.

Having an “Account” named model on both pages will likely lead to funky errors.

You can create the “Account” model on both pages the exact same, build the child page as you’d like, then you’d simply delete the “Account” model through the XML. Problem with this is that your components will easily break since the moment you click on them, the model selected while automatically grab the first from the drop down.

All this to say, you’d better a really really compelling reason to do this.

I otherwise suggest using the Master and Child page functionality that came with Banzai.

OK, thanks a lot for the detailed responses!

Hi Pat, any idea on how using the Master/Child pages for access to models as described would work the Page Include aspect that Mark references? (i.e. Child/Child page includes are problematic). I know in another post it was mentioned that a custom component was built to get model access to the included page from the main page. Thanks 

Let’s say that both the parent and child page had a model for an Account based on URL Param “id”. Instead of creating a model in each page for the Account you could created it with only in the parent page and reference it the name of the model in the child by setting the model name via XML. It would work as if the model existed and components all existed in one page Skuid page.

Thanks! That is what I thought which , would be perfect (and avoid having to copying the model into include). You were clear on the XML manipulation. I thought we could access it through the Master/Child as you showed but then I haven’t figured out how then to do the include as it either becomes recursive or child/page include child breaks. I notice you said parent here not Master. I feel like I am missing something massively obvious. I apologize ahead of time.