Adding the Visible condition

    var pressReleaseArticles = Umbraco.TypedContent(pressReleasesId).Children.Where(x => x.HasProperty("brand") && x.HasValue("brand") && x.IsVisible() && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("brand").ContainsAny(brandId));        

Excellent, thanks Jeavon. Chaining 'HasProperty', 'HasValue' then 'GetProperty' seems to have done the trick. Although I did start out by doing the casting of the property to a string, as per your suggestions, for some reason I only get results returned if I get the value and call the 'ToString' method on it, like this:

x => x.HasProperty("brand") && x.HasValue("brand") && x.GetProperty("brand").Value.ToString().Split(',').Contains(brandId)

Anyhow, seems to be working nicely, so thanks again :)

Great! But not sure about why you have the issue with the GetPropertyValue.

x.GetProperty("brand").Value.ToString()

Should be the same as the recommended

x.GetPropertyValue<string>("brand")

If it's not there is a problem. What version of Umbraco are you on?

Hi Jeavon,

Yes, it has puzzled me, but I can confirm it is the case. I tried these two options in my view just now (literally character-for-character):

pressReleases = Umbraco.TypedContent(pressReleasesId).Children.Where(x => x.HasProperty("brand") && x.HasValue("brand") && x.GetProperty("brand").Value.ToString().Split(',').Contains(brandId));

pressReleases = Umbraco.TypedContent(pressReleasesId).Children.Where(x => x.HasProperty("brand") && x.HasValue("brand") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("brand").Split(',').Contains(brandId));

The first one returns content, the second returns nothing (doesn't error, just returns nothing).

I don't know why this is but I'm sure it's something I've come across with other 'similar' datatypes before, namely the uComponents URL picker and Multi-URL picker, and the MNTP as above. Although I don't have an example I can easily test currently, I'm often only able to get what I need out of the properties by doing something like:

var something = Model.Content.GetProperty("myPropertyAlias").Value;

Rather than:

var something = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("myPropertyAlias");

Only for these data-types, the others behave as expected. It may be something to do with using custom models rather than standard Umbraco models, as I didn't build that part of the project I'm working on currently, but I don't know enough about it to know why it's behaving like this. (v6.1.6 by the way.)

Ultimately it's working, so there's no problem as such, it just makes it a little difficult for a razor noob to grasp what's going on.

Hey Dan,

Only reason I can think of is if you had a Property Editor Value Converter installed for MNTP (like my package), then this would be expected?

Jeavon

Ah, that's highly likely, I'll check. Thanks for your input on this, much appreciated :)

Ah cool, completely untested but if that is the case, I guess something like this should work:

var pressReleases = Umbraco.TypedContent(pressReleasesId).Children.Where(x => x.HasProperty("brand") && x.HasValue("brand") && x.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("brand").Any(y => y.Id == brandId));

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