Hi Anders,

I would try to help you. For the script for the navigation I think that you only are missing a very small part, so instead of Model you need to use CurrentPage. like this

@inheritsUmbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{ 
    @*Get the root of the website *@
    var root = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1);
}

<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
    <li class="@CurrentPage.IsEqual(root, "active", "")"><a href="/">Home</a></li>

    @foreach(var page in root.Children.Where("Visible"))
    { 
        if(page.Children.Where("Visible").Count()>0)
        {
            <li class="@page.IsAncestorOrSelf(CurrentPage, "active", "")">
                <a href="@page.Url">@page.Name</a>
            </li>
        }
        else
        {
            <li class="@page.IsAncestorOrSelf(CurrentPage, "active", "")">
                <a href="@page.Url">@page.Name</a>
            </li>
        }
    }
</ul>

For the next code snippet about the media picker, then you could try this.I have made my changes bold

@inheritsUmbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{
    @*Make Query to find all nodes with Alias "NewsPost" *@
    var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("NewsPost").Where("Visible");
}
@if(selection.Any()){

    @* OrderBy() takes the property to sort by and optinoally order desc/asc *@
    foreach (var page in selection.OrderBy("CreateDate desc"))
    {
        <div class="col-md-4 NewsPost">
            <article>
            @if (page.newsImage != "")
            {<a href="@page.Url"><div class="NewsImage">
                var dynamicMediaItem = Umbraco.Media(page.newsImage);
                <img src="@dynamicMediaItem.umbracoFile" alt="@page.title"/></div></a>}
            else
            {
                <div style="width:350px; height:233px;"></div>
            }
                <a href="@page.Url"><h2 style="margin-top:2px">@page.title</h2></a>
                <small>@page.CreateDate.ToString("dd MMMM yyyy") - @page.CreateDate.ToString("H:mm") </small>
                <div class="ShortText">
                    @(Umbraco.Truncate(Umbraco.StripHtml(page.bodyText), 300, true))
                </div>
                <br />
                <b><a href="@page.Url">@Umbraco.GetDictionaryValue("ReadMore") &#8594;</a></b>
            </article>
        </div>
    }
}

As you can see I made so change to your could. Try to see the documentation for the Media picker here. http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Backoffice-Overview/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors/Media-Picker Only focus on the strongly typed and dynmic, I use this syntaxs if you only need one image, but in Umbraco 7 you can add multiple images to the the media picker see here: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/Built-in-Property-Editors-v7/Media-Picker

Next this is the old Library method in MVC this is replaced by @Umbraco take a look here: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/UmbracoHelper/#Truncate%28stringhtmlintlengthbooladdElipsis%29

The last thing is the dictonary in MVC you need to call your dictionary like [email protected](string key) Where the string key is the name of your dictionary item, and this name must be unqiue.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Thanks Dennis!

Now my navigation works... I just tried Model to CurrentPage yesterday, but yeah.. Maybe it was an error another place them :P

But i still get the "Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/List News Posts.cshtml)" on the news post, but i figured out that the image is still causing problems because when i remove the If Else statements it's working now! :D

And it should have been proofed so that if there is no image then it just makes an empty div :/

Hi Anders,

I think I found what the problem is. The first thing is that I missing the space between @inherits and  Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage in the first line, so instead of

@inheritsUmbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

Change it to:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

And I have missing a small thing, when you are in HTML you need to start the Razor engine again and the way you doing this is by @, so try this code new code.

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{
    @*Make Query to find all nodes with Alias "NewsPost" *@
    var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("NewsPost").Where("Visible");
}
@if(selection.Any()){

    @* OrderBy() takes the property to sort by and optinoally order desc/asc *@
    foreach (var page in selection.OrderBy("CreateDate desc"))
    {
        <div class="col-md-4 NewsPost">
            <article>
            @if (page.newsImage != ""){
                <a href="@page.Url"><div class="NewsImage">
                    @{
                        var dynamicMediaItem = Umbraco.Media(page.newsImage);
                    }
                <img src="@dynamicMediaItem.umbracoFile" alt="@page.title"/></div></a>}
            else
            {
                <div style="width:350px; height:233px;"></div>
            }
                <a href="@page.Url"><h2 style="margin-top:2px">@page.title</h2></a>
                <small>@page.CreateDate.ToString("dd MMMM yyyy") - @page.CreateDate.ToString("H:mm") </small>
                <div class="ShortText">
                    @(Umbraco.Truncate(Umbraco.StripHtml(page.bodyText), 300, true))
                </div>
                <br />
                <b><a href="@page.Url">@Umbraco.GetDictionaryValue("ReadMore") &#8594;</a></b>
            </article>
        </div>
    }
}

Again I have made the changes bold so you can see what is changed.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi Dennis

I found out of that pretty quick, i just looked at it :)

It just still gives me errors!?!

That's why i hate Partial Views... I have working examples of scripting files that handles it without any problems, so i just cant figure out whats wrong... They should have removed XLST instead of Scripting files :-'(

Yey it's working now, after i changed a little! :D

Thanks you so much, now i just need some styling :P

Happy New Year! :)

Hi Anders,

Glad that I could help you, and happy new year to you too.

/Dennis

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