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  • Grant 21 posts 61 karma points
    Nov 01, 2013 @ 19:29
    Grant
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    Product Grid / List nodes from "alternate" page

    I am building a eCommerce style site, and my question is about displaying nodes from a source other than $currentPage. How can I target one of my categories nodes? To build a product I have a raiting property int collection for a number 1 - 5. (would this be better handled by a dropdown, or radio set?) So essentially the homepage will pull say the top 5 (5 star) items.

    So far I have the grid generating thumbnails and links but I have to place it on a node with product children due to my unsuccessful searches for node targeting.

    Hope I made sense, and thanks in advance.

    So far:

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
    <div class="twelve columns">
        <div class="row">
    <!-- The fun starts here -->
            <ul class="portfolio-items">
         <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
               <li class="img_item">
                    <div class="caption15">
                  <h3><xsl:value-of select="productName"/></h3>
                    <p><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" class="gridBuy">Product Info</a></p>
                   </div>
               </li>
            </xsl:for-each>
          </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
    </xsl:template>
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  • Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8790 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    Nov 02, 2013 @ 23:21
    Chriztian Steinmeier
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    Hi Grant,

    You have all of the published content available - you just need to know how to get it. A good trick is to grab some good reference points, instead of getting everything off of $currentPage, which quickly becomes unreadable. So for example, I always create a $siteRoot variable just after the $currentPage parameter, like this:

    <xsl:param name="currentPage" />
<xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />

    This makes it very easy to grab stuff from other places, e.g. your categories - if they're placed outside your site, you'd do this:

    <xsl:variable name="categories" select="$siteRoot/../Categories" />

    Otherwise, if they're placed below the home node:

    <xsl:variable name="categories" select="$siteRoot/Categories" />

    Then to get the name of the Category that your category property on $currentPage is pointing at, do this:

    <xsl:value-of select="$categories/Category[@id = $currentPage/category]/@nodeName" />

    /Chriztian

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  • Grant 21 posts 61 karma points
    Nov 03, 2013 @ 01:36
    Grant
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    Wow, very informative thank you got my solution and a best practice...Thanks, again.

    -G

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