For a navigation menu, I want to filter research staff members that belong to a certain category (professor, teaching assistant, practicing assistent, etc...)
Therefor I have a property 'memberCategory' of datatype dropdown list on my 'member' documenttype:
This code is indeed a lot more cleaner and nice. I implemented it, and everything works fine.
The only issue I have to solve yet, is that when you select an individual member in the navigation menu, the navigation menu disappears because the Razor code traverses only childnodes.
My content tree looks like this:
Do you know how to list all member nodes, even when I'm on a single member page?
problem with filtering nodes in Razor
Hi,
For a navigation menu, I want to filter research staff members that belong to a certain category (professor, teaching assistant, practicing assistent, etc...)
Therefor I have a property 'memberCategory' of datatype dropdown list on my 'member' documenttype:
<Member id="1071" parentID="1065" level="3" writerID="0" creatorID="0" nodeType="1063" template="1069" sortOrder="3" createDate="2012-04-24T10:36:22" updateDate="2012-04-24T11:04:58" nodeName="John Doe" urlName="john-doe" writerName="admin" creatorName="admin" path="-1,1051,1065,1071" isDoc="">
<memberFirstName>John</memberFirstName>
<memberLastName>Doe</memberLastName>
<memberEmail>[email protected]</memberEmail>
<memberPhone>some phonenumber</memberPhone>
<memberFax>some faxnumber</memberFax>
<memberAddress><![CDATA[Umbraco University, Department of Razor Sciences
addres, postal number city, country]]></memberAddress>
<memberVisitingHours><![CDATA[]]></memberVisitingHours>
<memberBio><![CDATA[
<p>Bio information</p>
]]></memberBio>
<memberPublications />
<memberCategory><![CDATA[Professor]]></memberCategory>
<pageTitle>John Doe</pageTitle>
<pageDescription><![CDATA[Details Prof. Dr. John Doe]]></pageDescription>
<umbracoNaviHide>0</umbracoNaviHide>
</Member>
My Razor script code looks like this:
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@{DynamicNodeList professors = @Model.Member.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"Professor\"");}
@if (professors.Items.Any())
{
<h2>Professor</h2>
<ul class="nav">
@foreach (DynamicNode professor in professors)
{
<li><a href="@professor.Url">@professor.Name</a></li>
}
</ul>
}
However, this is not working, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help,
Anthony
Hi Anthony
Why you are using - @Model.Member.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"Professor\"");}?
Try this - @Model.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"Professor\"");} ( without 'Member' )
Hope that help.
Hi gilad,
Again you come to the rescue :)
Yup, that was the problem, and you solved it.
greetings,
Anthony
This is the complete code
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@{DynamicNodeList professors = @Model.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"Professor\"");}
@{DynamicNodeList teachingassistants = @Model.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"Teaching Assistant\"");}
@if (professors.Items.Any())
{
<h2>Professor</h2>
<ul class="nav">
@foreach (DynamicNode professor in professors)
{
<li><a href="@professor.Url">@professor.Name</a></li>
}
</ul>
}
@if (teachingassistants.Items.Any())
{
<h2>Teaching Assistants</h2>
<ul class="nav">
@foreach (DynamicNode teachingassistant in teachingassistants)
{
<li><a href="@teachingassistant.Url">@teachingassistant.Name</a></li>
}
</ul>
}
and the result looks like this:
Also I checked the very instructive video by Douglas Robar on how to use Umbraco Razor Intellisense and Debugging:
http://blog.percipientstudios.com/2011/3/3/how-to-umbraco-razor-intellisense-and-debugging.aspx
Hope this might help other developers as well,
Anthony
Hi Anthony.
Great to know that it is work for you.
if you have more categories and you dont want to make it mannualy for each one
you can also make something like this :
List<string> categories = new List<string> { "Professor", "Teaching Assistant" }; //etc...DynamicNodeList categoryItems;foreach (var category in categories){categoryItems = @Model.Children.Where("memberCategory == \"" + category + "\"");if (categoryItems.Items.Any()){<h2>@category</h2><ul class="nav">@foreach (DynamicNode item in categoryItems){<li><a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a></li>}</ul>}}Hi gilad,
This code is indeed a lot more cleaner and nice. I implemented it, and everything works fine.
The only issue I have to solve yet, is that when you select an individual member in the navigation menu, the navigation menu disappears because the Razor code traverses only childnodes.
My content tree looks like this:
Do you know how to list all member nodes, even when I'm on a single member page?
Thanks for your help,
Anthony
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