Hi all,

Realy hoping someone can help me with this one i have been struggling for a few days now.

I have the following tree structure in my umbraco v6.1.2 site

and i would like to display all the 3rd level node names in a dropdown list which is part of my c# user control. I am able to target a certain node and display its children in a dropdown using the following code (which i used for another dropdown to bind the driver names)

//If you need a specific node based on ID use this method (where 123 = the desired node id)
            Node driverParentNode = new Node(1083);

            //To get the children of the driverParentNode as a List collection and sort the nodes alpha
            var driverChildNodes = driverParentNode.ChildrenAsList.OfType<Node>().OrderBy(n => n.Name);

            //Create a new list to store the child nodes
            List<string> finalDriverList = new List<string>();

            //Iterating over nodes driver child nodes collection and add them to the final driver list
            foreach (var node in driverChildNodes)
            {
                finalDriverList.Add(node.Name);

            }

            //display the final driver list in the dropdown control    
            ddlPreferedDriver.DataSource = finalDriverList;
            ddlPreferedDriver.DataBind();
            ddlPreferedDriver.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select Driver...", "0"));

Using the same code i can get all the level two items into a dropdown list (mercedes,ford etc.) into the vehicle ddl but how can i get the children of these into the ddl?

Now i thought i could achieve this by targeting the VehicleManufacturer doc type(id=1184) which is what all second level nodes are created from. Unfortunately my efforts so far have failed and im unsure if this can even be achieved.

List<Node> foundNodes = new List<Node>();
DocumentType nodeId = new DocumentType(1184);
        foreach (Node childNode in nodeId.Children)
        {
            var child = childNode;
            if (child.NodeTypeAlias == "VehicleProfile")
            {
                foundNodes.Add(child);
            }
        }

        //display the final driver list in the dropdown control    
        ddlPreferedVehicle.DataSource = foundNodes;
        ddlPreferedVehicle.DataBind();
        ddlPreferedVehicle.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select Vehicle...", "0"));

If someone out there has any info which may help me achieve this then i would be really gratefull

cheers all

Paul