Hi,

It's no different from using the umbraco library methods from within xslt...

Even in your user control, you could for example use umbraco.library.GetXmlNodeByXPath(). Just need to know what xpath query to use and you're set.

For listing children of a specific node, you'd probably use //node [@id = id]/node or //node [@id = id]/node

For listing grandchildren of a specific node, you'd  //node [@id = id]//node or //node [@id = id]//node

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Hi using the pure API and no XSLT you would do the following.

to get the children on your known node you would do the following (this is the long hand way so you can see all the parts easily

umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node node = new umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node(YOURNODEID); 
umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Nodes childrenNodes = node.children;

if you were then going to bind this to a say repeater just bind as usual

yourRepeater.DataSource = childrenNodes;
yourRepeater.DataBind();

then in the code fron on the repeater to get the properties of the node you would do the following

<asp:Repeater ID="yourRepeater" runat="server">
    <HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate><li><a href="<%# (Container.DataItem as Node).Url %>"><%# Eval("Name") %></a>
    <p><%# (Container.DataItem as Node).GetProperty("YourCustomPropertyAlias").Value %></p>
    </li></ItemTemplate>
    <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Hope that helps!

Peter

If you want the ID of the current page to pass to the constructor you can get it via the UmbracoContext:

int currentNodeId = umbraco.presentation.UmbracoContext.Current.PageId.Value;

And if you want to get the current node for the current page:

umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node current = Node.GetCurrent();

I may obsolete that method and push it into the UmbracoContext, there's so many ways to do this stuff that I'd like to see it centralized around the context

I have referenced umbraco.dll and receive the commands like umbraco.presentation etc then when I get to the current part it cannot find current. Do I need one of those <%@ register things at the top of the page? At the moment I have <#%@ assembly="umbraco" %> but doesn't change anything.

Thanks

The current part of what, the UmbracoContext? UmbracoContext was added in Umbraco 4.0 and is in the umbraco.presentation namespace in the umbraco.dll assembly.

Maybe it'd help if you posted your code thus far and we can let you know where you're going wrong

On the example given by Peter above it should read:

umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Nodes childrenNodes = node.Children;

I.e. the "Children" for node.Children should be a capital C...

Once I changed that, it did exactly what I needed, thanks Peter :)

Cheers,

Chris

How can i chagne childrenNodes to datatable in following code snipet.

   umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node node = new umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node(1071);
   umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Nodes childrenNodes = node.Children;

Thanks

JIgar

new umbraco.businesslogic.web.Document(1071).Children;

Duplicate question from JIgar. See the Datatable snippet on this post

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