Hi Frans,

Interesting structure for the site. How will you manage multilingual issue on the news item ?

Try to solve your problem using UmbracoHelper and id of the NewsItems node.

var newsItemsParent = helper.TypedContent(1212); newsItemsParent.Children();

Thanks

This may help you.

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{

    const string newsItemsAlias = "Alias of News Items Document Type";

    // find 'News Items' node 
   // var newsItems = Umbraco.TypedMediaAtRoot().FirstOrDefault(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals(newsItemsAlias));

    var newsItems = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().FirstOrDefault(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals(newsItemsAlias));

    if (newsItems != null)
    {
        foreach (var newsItem in newsItems.Children)
        {
            @newsItem.Name
        }
    }
}

Goodmorning,

@jivan, I tried your method. I like the fact that it doesn't use a hardcoded id so the customer can't screw it up. The variable however stays empty. I don't get why...

@ Alex, You have put me in the right direction for the solution. I used Umbraco.TypedContent(id); About the reason for the site structure. our customer doesn't want to translate every news item in every language. He want's to choose what language shows witch news item.

So I have a working solution now but I'm still interested in a way to search on documtentypealias.

@Frans sorry, it was my fault.

var newsItems = Umbraco.TypedMediaAtRoot().FirstOrDefault(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals(newsItemsAlias));

should be

 var newsItems = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().FirstOrDefault(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals(newsItemsAlias));

, since its the content. I am stupid.

Hi Jivan,

You are most cirtainly not stupid! You've brought me the perfect solution. I have read over it multiple times and I didn't see it too.
Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,

Frans

What I have now is this:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{
    var root = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1);
    const string newsAlias = "News";
    string rootLanguage = root.language;
    int catId = -1;
    Int32.TryParse(Request.QueryString["Category"], out catId);
    @* find 'News Items' node*@
    var news = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().FirstOrDefault(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals(newsAlias));
    var newsItems = news.DescendantOrSelf("NewsItems");
    string leftRight = "left";
    HashSet<int> CurrentLanguageNewsItems = new HashSet<int>{};
    HashSet<string> CurrentLanguageCategories = new HashSet<string>{};

    if (newsItems != null)
    {
        foreach (var newsItem in newsItems.Children.Where("visible"))
        {
            int currentNodeId = newsItem.Id;
            var currentNodeContent = Umbraco.Content(currentNodeId);
            if(Array.IndexOf(currentNodeContent.showInLanguage.Split(','), @rootLanguage) >= 0)
            {
                CurrentLanguageNewsItems.Add(@currentNodeId);
                foreach(var category in currentNodeContent.category.Split(','))
                {
                    CurrentLanguageCategories.Add(@category);
                }
            }  
        }
    }   

    @* build news category navigation*@
    string currentClass = "class=current";
    <div class="subNav">
        <ul id="labelMenu" class="clear">
            <li @if(@catId < 1000 ){@currentClass}><a href="/news">All news</a></li>
            @foreach (string langCategory in CurrentLanguageCategories)
            {   
            var currentLangCat = Umbraco.Content(@langCategory);
                <li @if(@catId == @currentLangCat.Id){@currentClass}>
                    <a href="/[email protected]">
                        @switch (@rootLanguage)
                        { 
                            case "EN":
                            @currentLangCat.EN
                            break;
                            case "NL":
                            @currentLangCat.NL
                            break;
                        }   
                    </a>

                </li>
            }
        </ul>
    </div>

    @* Get news items with correct language and correct catergory*@
    <div class="newsItems">
        @if (newsItems != null)
        {
            foreach (int newsItem in CurrentLanguageNewsItems)
            {
                int currentNodeId = newsItem;
                var currentNodeContent = Umbraco.Content(currentNodeId);
                if( (catId < 1000) || ( (catId >= 1000) && (Array.IndexOf(currentNodeContent.category.Split(','), @catId.ToString()) >= 0) ) ){
                    <section class="section contentBlock @leftRight clear">
                        <div class="contentBlockText pad">
                            <ul class="itemLabels clear">
                                @foreach (string itemCategories in currentNodeContent.category.Split(',')){
                                    <li>
                                        @switch (@rootLanguage)
                                        { 
                                            case "EN":
                                            @Umbraco.Content(@itemCategories).EN
                                            break;
                                            case "NL":
                                            @Umbraco.Content(@itemCategories).NL
                                            break;
                                        }   
                                    </li>
                                }
                            </ul>
                            <h2>@currentNodeContent.newsTitle</h2>
                            <div class="textIntro clear">
                                @currentNodeContent.newsText
                            </div>
                            @if(@currentNodeContent.extendedText.ToString() != "")
                            {
                                <div class="extendedText clear">
                                    @currentNodeContent.extendedText
                                    <a href="#" class="readMore medium large">Read more</a>
                                </div>
                            }   
                        </div>
                        @if((@currentNodeContent.newsImage).ToString() != ""){
                        }
                    </section>
                    switch (@leftRight){
                        case "left":
                        leftRight = "right";
                        break;
                        case "right":
                        leftRight = "left";
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }       
        }
    </div>  
}

As you'll notice I need a to get to the content with the Umbraco helper. This seems awkward and gives me heeps of trouble when getting the images. Is there a way to simplify this?

Another thing that's bothering me is the two switches I have to use. The rootLanguage string in the beginning gives me the country code. I wanted to make it work like @currentLanguageCat.@rootLanguage But that of course doesn't work.... I'd like to be able to leave the script alone if I have to add a language.

Bare in mind, I'm a front-end developer and have been actively working with Umbraco for the past year. Before that I had no MVC C# experience whatsoever. If you see things that are not as neat as can be, please feel free to comment.

Thanks

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