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Ayo Adesina 445 posts 1059 karma points

Sep 15, 2014 @ 11:44

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Umbraco 6 - Basic Content node navigation.

Hey guys I have been away for a while, the last time I was using umbraco I was using version 4.

I am currently using version 6 and can't find the methods in the API to get particular nodes and query there properties. According to the back office of umbraco I am using - Umbraco v6.2.1

After a bit of googling and reading I have found that uQuery has been put in to the umbraco core and this is the object I need. However, even though I have this using statement.

using umbraco;

I can't access uqery, its not in that name space, I have also tried

using umbraco.NodeFactory

but the NodeFactory is also not in the Umbraco name space.

What I have found is:

ContentService

so if I do something like this:

var childnodes = contentService.GetChildren(1503);

how do I count the number of nodes? ie

childnodes.count is not valid

Also how do I loop through the items and see what values are set for a given property?

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Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib

Sep 15, 2014 @ 12:06
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Hello,

You should use the Umbraco helper for this. With that it's possible to do this:
```
var node = Umbraco.TypedContent(id);
```
More info: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/querying

Jeroen
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Ayo Adesina 445 posts 1059 karma points

Sep 15, 2014 @ 12:27

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Thanks for your quick reply Jeroen

When I do Umbraco. the only option I get is CORE.. so Umbraco.Core

so there is no Umbraco.TypedContent or Umbraco.Core.TypedContent

Just checked and I am using a separate class library project I have a reference to Umbraco.Core but not to Umbraco,

Do I need to add an assembly reference to this? In my CMS project (ie the umbraco website project) there is a Umbraco.dll file with file version 1.0.5261.29001

Do I need to reference this?

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Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib

Sep 15, 2014 @ 12:59
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Hello,

You can create your own helper like this:
```
using Umbraco.Web;

protected static UmbracoHelper Umbraco
{
    get { return new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current); }
}
```
It might be good to add the Umbraco.Core dll and add that namespace for a lot of good extension methods.

Jeroen
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Ayo Adesina 445 posts 1059 karma points

Sep 15, 2014 @ 13:00

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I have found the TypedContent method now... but I can only get the nodes by ID.. I want to get it by type and name... if I can so that I don't have to worry about someone deleting/recreating the node with a different ID

Any ideas?

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Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib

Sep 15, 2014 @ 13:18

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It might be easier to just store the id in the web.config as an app setting. If someone deletes/recreate it you just have to update the id in the app setting. Another option is to select the node with a content picker on the top node and get that id. Finally if you want to find a specific node you could get the root node and query all Descendants with a where statement in which you search for the name and type.

Jeroen

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