Hi Nik,

When you loop thorugh the related links this will return the Id's. Then you can use the umbraco.library.NiceUrl method to get the relative url. You only have to prefix this with the url of the site.

Simple example how I made relative url's absolute to use to mail links to cusomers

string
 
 domain = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"];
return
 
 string.Format("http://{0}{1}", domain, umbraco.library.NiceUrl(nodeId));
 

Hope this helps you,

Richard

sweet, I will try this out. Although it doesn't look like I am getting IDs back right now. That is probably another issue though...

Thanks,
Nik

Hi Ricahrd, I mesread your response. The problem that I have is that I am not getting any values back for that data type right now at all (eventhough I have selected and added links to the element). So, I guess my question is more, is there a data strcture that I need to access in order to be able to read the values that are added to the related links datatype as part of a given node. The XSLT is clear on how to access this item, but I am confused as to how to do this in c#.

Thanks,
Nik

Nik,

Output the value of the property using <xsl:copy-of select="aliasOfRelatedLinksProperty" /> and have a look at the source of the rendered html.

Must be something along the lines of:

<links><link title="TITLE" link="ID" type="internal|external" newwindow="0|1" /></links>

How about

<xsl:for-each select="data [@alias = 'aliasOfRelatedLinksProperty']/links/link>
  <a href="{@link}"><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></a>
</xsl:for-each>

Have to do some <xls:if>'s as well to check whether it's an internal/external link!

Cheers,

/Dirk

Yeah, I have the XSLT down...but in this instance I need to access the value in an Event Handler. I guess my confusion is how to accomplish this in c#. I was inspecting the nodeFactory and didn't come up with a solution. I am sure I will be kicking myself when I see the answer....but for now I am at a dead end.

Thanks again,
Nik

Hi Nik,

Haven't tried this, but I would load the value of the related link property in an xml document

string xml = //the value;
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(new StringReader(xml));

And then you should be able the different links.

xmlDoc.SelectNodes("/links/link");

Tim, that looks good. I will give this a try.

Thanks for chiming in!

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