Hi Roey

Sorry for late reply. If I understand what you would like to do, then this code will return you a navigation down to level 3

  @foreach(var page in @Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants().Where("level<5"))

  {      

        <a href="@page.Url">@page.Name</a>

}

I have left level at 5, but if you adjust you will see what returns, it is worth to note that level 1 is 0, so sometimes can be a little confusing.

Hope this helps to get you started, but you may have to play a little, I use V6 Mvc version, so you may need to check your @using statements at the top of your file if you are using Webforms.

Hope it helps Gary

The  ().Where("level<5")) is an optional constraint if you take this off it will keep searching down the tree for you :).  Charlie :)

hi GARY and CHARLIE,

thanks for your response and suggestions,

i didn't want to put any particular number in where(). I got what i wanted with the following code but thats not completely dynamic too.

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext

@{ 

  var startLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.StartLevel) ? 1 : int.Parse(Parameter.StartLevel);

  var finishLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.FinishLevel) ? 5 : int.Parse(Parameter.FinishLevel);   

  var parent = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(startLevel);

  if (parent != null) { @traverse(parent,startLevel,finishLevel) ; }

}                                                     

@helper traverse(dynamic parent,int startLevel,int finishLevel)

{

 <ul [email protected]>

    @foreach (var node in parent.Children.Where("Visible")) {

      var selected = Array.IndexOf(Model.Path.Split(','), node.Id.ToString()) >= 0 ? "class = selected"+" "+"current-"[email protected] : "";

<li @Html.Raw(selected)> 

        <a href="@node.Url">@node.Name</a>

        @if (selected!=""&&@node.Level<=finishLevel) { @traverse(node,startLevel,finishLevel); }  

      </li>

      }

  </ul>                                                            

}

I also have other query

i'm dynamically generating classes for the li items for example  (<li class="selected current-2">)

@foreach (var node in parent.Children.Where("Visible")) {

      var selected = Array.IndexOf(Model.Path.Split(','), node.Id.ToString()) >= 0 ? "class = selected"+"  "+"current-"[email protected] : "";

  <li @Html.Raw(selected)> 

but the space after "selected" is messing up my class names

Thanks for any help

Rohith

Hi Roey.  Sorry for the late reply.  Surly in the start and stop clause

  var startLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.StartLevel) ? 1 : int.Parse(Parameter.StartLevel);

  var finishLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.FinishLevel) ? 5 : int.Parse(Parameter.FinishLevel);   

dont you want to add a clause here to say either

where there are no parents (must be the top)

where there are no children (must be the bottom)

Hi Charles,

thanks for you help with the previous one..

I've a new one now...

in the above tree all nodes are of same document type (umbTextpage)

I want to find the rootnode (with same doctype) of current page

I tried

var parent = @Model.AncestorOrSelf("umbTextpage");

but that only returns the self page, so i tried

Model.Ansestors("umbTextpage"); and still no use

is there any way I can find the top level ancestor with "umbTextpage" doctype

Does XPath work in this case, if it works then HOW?

Thanks

Roey

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