Hi,

I'm using Repeatable Custom Content V2 to create a Top 5 type of article on a site.

This all works fine, however I also have the requirement of search listings with an image. I want to show the image from the first item in my repeatable custom content. The xml looks something like this:

<items>
   <item>
       <data alias="image">SomeUrl</data>
       <data alias="heading">Some text</data>
  </item>
  <!--- Some more items -->
</items>

So I'm using umbraco examine to do the searching for me, I then need to convert it to a SearchListing POCO, a list of which is bound to a repeater at the front end.

This works fine for my other article types as I can retreive the image url from these types using the umbraco library. However, when I try to do the following for a Top 5 Article, I get string.Empty back from umbraco.library.GetItem

Any ideas?

N.B. I have to do this server side as I am joining these results to results from other data sources.

Cheers,

Rob

//Heres all the relevant code (from various classes)

private static string GetImageUrlFromNode(string nodeTypeAlias, int nodeId)
{
            if (nodeId > 0)
            {
                string propertyName = string.Empty;

                switch (nodeTypeAlias)
                {
                    case "Top 5 Article":
                        return GetImageUrlFromTop5Item(nodeId);
                    case "Video Article":
                        return GetImageUrlForVideo(nodeId);
                        break;
                    default:
                        propertyName = "image";
                        break;
                }

                if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(propertyName))
                    return UmbracoUtility.GetUmbracoMediaItem(propertyName, nodeId);
            }
            return string.Empty;
}

private static string GetImageUrlFromTop5Item(int nodeId)
{
            XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();

            //The code fails here because top5Items is null
            xml.LoadXml(UmbracoUtility.GetUmbracoItem("top5Items",nodeId));

            XmlNode imageNode = xml.SelectSingleNode("/items/item/data[@alias='image'][0]");
            return UmbracoUtility.GetMediaFile(imageNode.InnerText);
}

public static String GetUmbracoItem(String alias, int? nodeId)
        {
            String value = String.Empty;
            if (!nodeId.HasValue)
            {
                Hashtable ht = HttpContext.Current.Items["pageElements"] as Hashtable;
                if (ht != null)
                {
                    if (ht[alias] != null)
                    {
                        return ht[alias].ToString();
                    }
                }
                return umbraco.library.GetItem(alias);
            }
            else
            {
                try
                {
                    value = umbraco.library.GetItem((int)nodeId, alias);
                }
                catch
                { }
                return value;
            }
        }