Hii Anthony.

I am not sure if this is your problem but try this : 

var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("PublicationArea").Children.Where("Name == \"" + year + "\"");

(without the @ before Name)

Hope that help, Cheers.

Hi gilad,

I already tried that but with no succes, I also tried this:

var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("PublicationArea").Children.Where("NodeName == \"" + year + "\"");

also without succes :(

Thanks for your help anyway,
Anthony

Maybe try this : 

var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("PublicationArea").Descendants("PublicationFolderYear").Where("NodeName == \"" + year + "\"");

Hi Gilad,

I found the solution, this works :) :

var yearfolder = @Model.Up.Descendants("PublicationArea").Children("PublicationFolderYear").Where("nodeName == \"" + year + "\"");

Thanks for your help,
Anthony

Alas, seems I was a bit too euphoric, the code still does not work, when I debug the code, my yearfolder variable is emty (the message in the debugger is 'Enumeration yielded no results')

:(

try this : 

var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("PublicationArea").Descendants("PublicationFolderYear").Where("Name == \"" + year + "\"").First();

Can you paste the hole code block?

Hi gilad,

that didn't work. Apparently if I use @Model.AncestorOrSelf... I get an 'cannot perform dynamic binding on a null reference'

If I use @Model.Up.Descendants("PublicationArea")... I don't get an error, but the enumeration didn't yield a result.

I don't have that much code to show:

@{

  var year = DateTime.Now.Year;

  var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("PublicationArea").Descendants("PublicationFolderYear").Where("NodeName == \"" + year + "\"").First();

  DynamicNodeList publications = new DynamicNodeList();

  }

I just wanted to test if this code returns an instance of PublicationFolderYear with a nodeName value of '2012'

Anthony

Hi gilad,

I tested with 

@Model.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("PublicationArea").Count

that gave me a value like 0x00000000001 or something

Than I tried your code:

var yearfolder = @Model.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("PublicationFolderYear").Where("Name == \"" + year + "\"").First();

This works!

I thought I had to work my way down through the hierarchy but apparently I can go straight to the 'PublicationFolderYear' node.

thanks a lot, you rock!

Anthony

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