You'll have to create another xslt for this. it will be very close to your news example.  The only thing that will change will be the select in your for-each loop

Hi Sam,

Yes, you'll want to use a Macro for this (whether XSLT, Razor, or .NET).  XSLT is probably simplest, for me anyway.

Create a new XSLT File in the Developer section and leave the "Create macro" checkbox checked.  For your code you could use something like:

<h3>Featured Products</h3>
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/ProductsArea/Product [@isDoc][string(isFeatured) = '1'][position() &lt; 3]">
    <li>
        <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
            <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
        </a>
    </li>
</xsl:for-each>

Note:  Change ProductsArea to the alias of your "Products" page document type, and same for Product.  Change isFeatured to the alias of your checkbox property. 

Then you can insert this macro into your template where you want the featured products to appear.

Hopefully this gets you started, feel free to post back any questions.

-Tom

Hi Tom,

Thks...I've tried this out,created the macro and inserted it homepage...still renders nothing..

MY CODE:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/Offers/OfferItem [@isDoc][string(isFeatured) = '1'][position() &lt; 3]">
  <!--special offer boxes -->
  <div class="SpOfferListBox">
      <div class="SpOfferTit"><xsl:value-of select="offerName"/></div>
      <div class="SpOfferImg"><a href="#"><img src="{offerPhoto}" width="180" height="140" alt="{@nodeName}" /></a></div>
      <div class="SpOfferSum"><xsl:value-of select="offerDescription" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each>

Do you think its a problem with old/new schema syntax??...I am on Umbraco v 4.6.1 or I am doing something wrong (by the way i kept isFeatured as the alias of my checkbox property.)

Sam.

Hi Sam,

This example is using the new schema, which you should be using unless you explicity told Umbraco to use the old schema?

Is the Offers node directly under the Content root?

A good way to debug is to dump out the XML in a textbox so you can see the XML it's working with.

<textarea><xsl:copy-of select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/Offers"/></textarea>

Try that, do you get <Offers ...><OfferItem ...> nodes?  If not get rid of /Offers and see what you get.

-Tom

Hi Tom..yes Im usint the new schema...

The Offers node is under my default page node, like this

Content
  default
      - Company Profile
      - Offers

When using <textarea><xsl:copy-of select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/Offers"/></textarea> I get only the footer html code of my page in the textbox....and when removing /Offers 
i get the html of all pages...a bit weird?

Where do you exactly put the <textarea>.... in the XSLT...perhaps that why i get those results...

Anyway here is mu full XSLT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- The fun starts here -->

  
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/Offers/OfferItem [@isDoc][string(isFeatured) = '1'][position() &lt; 3]">
  <!--special offer boxes -->
  <div class="SpOfferListBox">
      <div class="SpOfferTit"><xsl:value-of select="offerName"/></div>
      <div class="SpOfferImg"><a href="#"><img src="{offerPhoto}" width="180" height="140" alt="{@nodeName}" /></a></div>
      <div class="SpOfferSum"><xsl:value-of select="offerDescription" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope that can clear things up...

Sam

Hi Tom....im so silly...figures it out myself...though you put me on the right track, I just had to add default node  to my for-each select...like this:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor::root/default/Offers/OfferItem [@isDoc][string(isFeatured) = '1'][position() &lt; 3]">

Works like a charm now...

Thanks to you...

Sam.

Glad to hear it!  FYI, if you are seeing HTML from the footer of your template/page in the textarea it usually means the textarea's content was blank, meaning the XPath resulted in no results.  When you removed /Offers you (should) have seen the Umbraco XML of all the pages of your site, which should help you figure out why it wasn't working.  In this case I guess everything was wrapped in a <default> node?  Anyway, glad it's working now!

-Tom

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