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Gary 3 posts 23 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 00:09

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n00b, stuck with content picker

Hi guys,

I'm currently trying out Umbraco... love it so far.

I've got stuck at a hurdle though. I'm looking to use a content picker to be able to pick different "widgets" to put onto a page.

I added a "content picker" to my homepage, which is all good... I then selected the widget that I made (just a few lines of text, fine...

In my macro, I need to insert the following text to be able to display my content on the page...

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1098)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

This works great, but as you can see, the ID is hard-coded in there... I want that ID to come from the content picker (alias is homewidget1)

I have tried <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/homewidget1" /> but that doesn't work...

Any pointers?

Thanks,

Gary :)

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Nigel Wilson 945 posts 2077 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 05:02
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Hi Gary

A handy debug "tool" within xslt is to output the xml data within a textarea. This can be achieved as follows:
```
<textarea>
<xsl:copy-of select="$currentPage"/>
</textarea> 
```
You can use it on specific node data too if the node data is in xml format - I have found it invaluable in working out the correct syntax.

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ucomponents is worth a look too - as you are adding "widgets" the multi node picker in the uComponents package is a must have.

Good luck.

Cheers

Nigel
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Gary 3 posts 23 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 11:17

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Oh wow, now THAT is handy :)

I usually use PHP, and would often just echo out something to see what it contains... so this will help me hugely. Especially now as I set it to 'widget1' and not 'homewidget1' as I thought I did!

I'll check out the ucomponents link there now.

Thanks again,

Gary

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Nigel Wilson 945 posts 2077 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 11:33

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Hi Gary

Pleased the info has been a help.

I too used to solely code in php but since starting with Umbraco, it is hard to go back.

Cheers

Nigel

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Gary 3 posts 23 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 11:56

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So in 30 minutes, I managed to get exactly what I needed done (and spent all day trying myself yesterday!)

Thanks again for your help - ucomponents was exactly what I was after!

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Nigel Wilson 945 posts 2077 karma points

May 30, 2012 @ 23:30

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Hi Gary

Maybe mark one of the replies as the solution - just a housekeeping task...

Cheers

Nigel

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