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Jedd France 29 posts 140 karma points

Apr 03, 2015 @ 17:26
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Separate Newest Article From The Rest?
Hello everyone,

I am adding a news section to my website using Razor, which filters through the news articles i've created in umbraco and displays them. This is the code that I have just now (which works fine)
```
@using umbraco.MacroEngines;
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@{
    DynamicNode currentPage = Model;
}

@foreach (DynamicNode newsArticle in currentPage.Descendants("NewsArticle"))
{
    
        @(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("Name"))

        
        
            @(DateTime.Parse(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("articleDate")).ToString("MMM"))

            '@(DateTime.Parse(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("articleDate")).ToString("yy"))

        @Html.Raw(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("bodyText"))

}
```
What I want to do is be able to separate the newest article from the rest so I can style it differently. The rest of the news articles will have the same styling. I'm not sure if I would need to use the createdate or the articleDate property I have on the doctype to do this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Jedd
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Apr 03, 2015 @ 17:54
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Hi Jedd

I think that should be possible if you order your news items by either the articleDate or the createdDate - But I guess that the article data would make the most sense to use?

So something like
```
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContex

@{
DynamicNode currentPage = Model;
Int i = 0;
}

@foreach (DynamicNode newsArticle in currentPage.Descendants("NewsArticle").OrderBy("x.articleDate")){
      <div class="newsContent @(i == 0 ? "latestNews" : "")">
          <h3>@(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("Name"))</h3>
          <div class="articleDate">
             @(DateTime.Parse(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("articleDate")).ToString("MMM"))
              <span>'@(DateTime.Parse(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("articleDate")).ToString("yy"))</span>
          </div>
          @Html.Raw(newsArticle.GetPropertyValue("bodyText"))
     </div>
    i++;
}
```
In this example I'm decklaring an integer (i) and assigning the value 0 to it and then in the foreach loop I'm checking if the value of "i" is 0 using a ternary operator. If the expression is true the "latestNews" class is added otherwise nothing is added.

In the foearch expression I have add the "OrderBy("articleDate")" - This should order the news items using the article date.

I hope this makes sense and helps - And you might be able to benefit from having a look at this Razor cheatsheet https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-v6-mvc-razor-cheatsheets

Hope this helps.

/Jan
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Jedd France 29 posts 140 karma points

Apr 08, 2015 @ 18:00

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Hi Jan,

Thank you for your response. I tried implementing your theory but it showed a few errors.

Not to worry though, I managed to achieve what I wanted by using the structure of my articles in Umbraco.

Thanks again!

Jedd

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Apr 08, 2015 @ 22:13

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Hi Jedd

Good to hear you managed to find a way - Do you mind sharing the code? Others might benefit from this as well :)

Cheers, Jan

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