Dialog property retrieval on page via sightly

Hi All.

Doubt as below :

In component.html, we have a section as below :

<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6" data-sly-test="${currentPage.title}">

<a href="something.pdf" class="icon-link doc_link_more"><span data-fi-lb>View  ${currentPage.title}</span></a>

  </div>

1] Here if I try with the above, it works fine and getting me the page title value.

2] However, if I try with another custom property at the page jcr:content level[i.e, at sme level where title is present] and of type "String" only, it is not displaying anything.

3] Also, there are couple of dialog properties[of type "String"] that I have to retrieve, which is also not coming up on the page.

Any thoughts/pointers on this will be really helpul.