Sure, you could use the Where method:

dynamic oneStarHotels = Model.Children.Where("nameOfDDLProperty == 1");

(Provided Model is the parent that contains the hotels.)

thanks for the reply.

that shows me the list of hotels that are of a 1 star rating but what I need is a nav of 1 star, 2 star etc that when you click on the 1 star link it would then show the 1 star hotels

Currently I have the code:

<ul>
        @{
          var labels = Model.XPath("//Accommodation").OrderBy("Name").Where("rating == 4");;
          
          foreach(var label in labels)
          {
             <li><a href="/">@label.Name</a></li>
          }
        }
    </ul>

Hi ted,

Do you want this all in the same page? What you can do in Razor is get querystrings parameters, so you could populate your "star navigation" as links to the same page but with a querystring parameter indicating the star filter.

Then in your razor macro, you can replace the hardcoded stars by the querystring parameter.

If you want to build the navigation itself, then I think you would need something like this (pseudo-code, not tested):

<ul>
        @{
          var ratings = Model.XPath("//Accommodation").Distinct("rating");
          
          foreach(var rating in ratings)
          {
             <li><ahref="/mypage?starfilter=@rating">View @rating stars hotels</a></li>
          }
        }
    </ul>

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Michael.

unfortunately it threw back the error

'umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeList' does not contain a definition for 'Distinct'

and being more of a front end developer I am not sure what it needs?

Ted

Hi ted.

why dont you repeat the first solution 5 times?

you can do it manually or with for loop :

for (int i = 1; i < 6; i++)

        {

            dynamic hotels = Model.Children.Where("nameOfDDLProperty == " + i);

            <h2>@i stars hotels</h2>

            <ul>

                @foreach (var item in hotels)

                {

                   <li><a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a></li> 

                }  

            </ul>

        }  

Hope that helps. Cheers

Hi ted,

Sorry, I forgot Distinct did not work. By checking on this handy razor dynamic node cheat sheet (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/razor-dynamicnode-cheat-sheet), I saw that GroupBy works. This way you only show links to "stars" pages that have at least one hotel:

<ul>
        @{
          var ratings = Model.XPath("//Accommodation").GroupBy("rating");
          
          foreach(var rating in ratings)
          {
             <li><a href=/[email protected]>View @rating.Key stars hotels</a></li>
          }
        }
    </ul>

Hope it works this time :-)

Cheers,

Michael.

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