Assuming I want to get all InfoItem and NewsItem documents, sort by date and return the to 5 items.
Combine with that - that the documents can hang at any level or off any node in the site..Is that possible?
Currently if i want to get all the NewsItems nodes - starting at the
websites root, i would use the following foreach loop (parent is set to
AncestorOrSelf(1)
foreach (var node in parent.DescendantsOrSelf("NewsItem").Take(5))
So I guess what i am looking for is something like
foreach (var node in parent.DescendantsOrSelf("NewsItem||InfoItem").OrderBy("docDate desc").Take(5))
(any other ideas as to how to pull this off would be appreciated also)
Get more than one document type?
Assuming I want to get all InfoItem and NewsItem documents, sort by date and return the to 5 items.
Combine with that - that the documents can hang at any level or off any node in the site..Is that possible?
Currently if i want to get all the NewsItems nodes - starting at the websites root, i would use the following foreach loop (parent is set to AncestorOrSelf(1)
foreach (var node in parent.DescendantsOrSelf("NewsItem").Take(5))So I guess what i am looking for is something like
foreach (var node in parent.DescendantsOrSelf("NewsItem||InfoItem").OrderBy("docDate desc").Take(5))(any other ideas as to how to pull this off would be appreciated also)
Thanks in advance.
Rob
Hi Rob,
I'd do something like this:
var Homepage = Node.Ancestorys().FirstOrDefault(x=>x.NodeTypeAlias.Equals("HomepageDocType")); // Get your homepage or root of site
string[] DocTypes = new string[]{ "NewsItem", "InfoItem" }; // The document types you want to get
var Items = Homepage.Descendants().Where(n=> DocTypes.Contains(n.NodeTypeAlias))
.OrderByDescending(x=>x.GetPropertyValue("docDate")).Take(5);
foreach(var Item in Items)
{
//loop over your nodes
}
The GetPropertyValue is an extension method that wraps Node.GetProperty(Alias) with some null checking.
Hopefully this sets you in the right direction!
Nice!.. I will need to give it a try.
I ended up building something functional with a .net usercontrol, but if prefer the razor syntax when it works. (less of a deployment head ache)
Rob
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