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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Jul 11, 2014 @ 21:45

Does anyone have any related links razor working with a macro for Umbraco 7?

I unfortunately need to use the macro in the RTE and pass a parameter so can't use MVC, this just keeps throwing erros:

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq


@{
    var startNodeID = Parameter.ChooseButtonGroup;
}

@if (startNodeID != null)
{
    @* Get the start node as a dynamic node *@
    <h1>@startNodeID</h1>
    var startNode = Library.NodeById(startNodeID);
    
   foreach(var relatedLink in startNode.GetPropertyValue<JArray>("relatedLinks")) {
        
      <h1>@(relatedLink.Value<string>("title"))</h1>
      
  }
}

The error I'm getting is "'char' does not contain a definition for 'Value'"

-Amir

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Jeavon Leopold 3074 posts 13632 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jul 11, 2014 @ 22:09

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Hi Amir,

Since v4.10 Partial View Macros have been the recommended macros for WebForms templates and Razor Macros are legacy. So you could use either of the snippets from here in a Partial View Macro

Jeavon

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Jul 15, 2014 @ 16:20

Hi Jeavon, I can't seem to access any of the properties in the datatype via razor. Shouldn't just "@item.Caption" return the value in the caption field? The json looks like this:

[{
   "caption":"Link1",
    "link":"http://google.com",
   "newWindow":false,
    "edit":false,
 "isInternal":false,
   "type":"external",
    "title":"Link1"
},{
  "caption":"Link2",
    "link":"http://google.com",
   "newWindow":false,
    "edit":false,
 "isInternal":false,
   "type":"external",
    "title":"Link2"
},{
  "caption":"Link3",
    "link":"http://google.com",
   "newWindow":false,
    "edit":false,
 "isInternal":false,
   "type":"external",
    "title":"Link3"
}]

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Jul 15, 2014 @ 19:56

Incase anyone else has this issue:

<ul>
                   @foreach (dynamic item in JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(startNode.GetPropertyValue<string>("relatedLinks")))
                    {
                     
                  var linkUrl = (bool)item.isInternal ? Library.NodeById(@item.link).Url : item.link;
                   var linkTarget = (bool)item.newWindow ? "_blank" : null;
                  <li><a href="@linkUrl" target="@linkTarget">@item.caption</a></li>
                        
                  }
             </ul>

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Jules 276 posts 587 karma points

Nov 27, 2014 @ 00:38

Even simpler now in Umbraco 7.1.6

    @foreach (var link in CurrentPage.listOfLinks)
    {
        var linkTarget = (bool) link.newWindow ? "target=\"_blank\"" : "";
        <a href="@link.link" @Html.Raw(linkTarget)>@link.caption</a>
    }

Jules

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Christopher 4 posts 74 karma points

Jun 30, 2016 @ 18:17

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@Jules I'm using v.7.4.3 and your solution doesn't work, I get Amir's original error. For some reason umbraco is returning the "CurrentPage.listOfLinks" value as a json string, which causes the loop to go char by char.

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Christopher 4 posts 74 karma points

Jun 30, 2016 @ 18:58

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OK this is really, really strange. The type of the property value changed suddenly from a string to the typed object... magically. I have no idea what caused this behaviour.

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Chefdog 5 posts 26 karma points

Mar 21, 2017 @ 18:56

At the top of the view:

var linksCollection = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Model.GetPropertyValue<string>("Links"));

in the html. in my case a loop that writes out <li></li> :

@if (linksCollection != null)
{
    <aside class="widget widget-recent-posts animate-up">
        <h2 class="widget-title">Links &amp; Documents</h2>
        <ul>
            @foreach (dynamic item in (IEnumerable<dynamic>) linksCollection)
            {
                var lnk = Json.Decode(item.ToString());
                var linkTarget = (bool) lnk.newWindow ? "target=\"_blank\"" : "";
                <li><a href="@lnk.link" @Html.Raw(linkTarget)>@lnk.caption</a></li>
            }
        </ul>
    </aside>

}

I am sure there could be some cleanup of the code, but it works....

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