From deaf26109b970da33a034d24e0603a273cf8518f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Poornima Nayar <poornimakrishnav@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 19:33:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] check for recursive value

---
 src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/item.cs | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/item.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/item.cs
index 1edc6cca17..33150d6187 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/item.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/item.cs
@@ -66,8 +66,12 @@ namespace umbraco
 
                 if (publishedContent == null)
                 {
-                    var recursiveVal = GetRecursiveValueLegacy(elements);
-                    _fieldContent = recursiveVal.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() ? _fieldContent : recursiveVal;
+                    if (recursive)
+                    {
+                        var recursiveVal = GetRecursiveValueLegacy(elements);
+                        _fieldContent = recursiveVal.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() ? _fieldContent : recursiveVal;
+                    }
+                   
                 }
 
                 //check for published content and get its value using that
@@ -222,4 +226,4 @@ namespace umbraco
             }
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}