Hey Jeavon

Year i know its nice if all you have to work with is in the "Templates" or "Controllers"

but if u opt in before these have run then it seem a bit hard to fetch the node based on that "uri as unique identifier" And it shouldnt be hard at all. Umbraco.TypedContent() should have and overload to work with and uri. Just like firebase has (that actualy uses the same "pattern" for unique identifers.)

In my issue i have to access the multi node picker in the examine index event, cause i need to "tokenize" the fields to make em usefull for searching.

So i gues i have to look at the implementation of the Core.PropertyConverter to see how it is resolved and then do the same in the GathernodeEvent.

Can u remember what assembly the PropeprtyValueConverters are placed in ?

Thx alot jeavon :) just what i was looking for

where did u find it in the core ? :)

It seemed soooo nice at first glance. But the extension method ToPublishedContent is using the UmbracoContext.current witch is null on

protected override void ApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext) { ExamineManager.Instance.IndexProviderCollection["SiteSearchIndexer"].GatheringNodeData += SpecialityIndexer_GatheringNodeData; }

So i have to go down the entity Service road :(

TBH i love the URI mindset on content. but the API needs som more helper methods to make it smooth :)

Hmm i played a bit around with it now and it seems like the chain is broken somewhere.

string id = "umb://document/b3fc5438670444f38ddcc34adbaa44a7";

var demo = StringUdi.Parse(id); Throws and error that my string is not a valid stringUid

and if i look a the core code it seems like Stringuid is used for something els cause it uses Uid.Parse and then test if it gets a StringUid back.

udi.AsGuid() gives same error as Udi.Parse("myUdi").ToPublishedContent()

i can get around it with :

Udi udi;
                if (Udi.TryParse(id, out udi))
                {
                    var guid = GuidUdi.Parse(udi.ToString());
                    IEntityService entityService = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.EntityService;

                    Attempt<int> response = entityService.GetIdForKey(guid.Guid, UmbracoObjectTypes.Document);
                    if (response.Success)
                    {
                        path += response.Result;
                    }
                }

It just seems strange that my Picker saves a value that i have trouble using.

lets take some filters and news as example. The editor can create filters under some node and then afterwards tag news with those.

i would have to resolve either a uid to a id or some id's to uid to make a proper filter.

hmm maybe the IPublishedContent has and Uid property now and the best solution is to convert to it and use it instead of int Id.

Is there any solution to this?

I am unable to fetch content info with a Uid. I can't find a solution anywhere Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<IPublishedContent>(uid) always returns null.

Jeavon,

Thanks for your patience and thanks for answering all my questions.

Regarding your last reply. What I'm saying is this is my template:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage<ContentModels.HomePage>
@using ContentModels = Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels;
@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<div class="row">
    @Html.Raw(Model.Content.GetProperty("LearnMoreBoxes").Value)
</div>
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-8">
        @Model.Content.Main
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
        @Umbraco.RenderMacro("RecentUpdates")
    </div>
</div>

While troubleshooting the problem earlier, I did this:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage<ContentModels.HomePage>
@using ContentModels = Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels;
@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<div class="row">
    @Html.Raw(Model.Content.GetProperty("LearnMoreBoxes").Value)
</div>
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-8">
        @Model.Content.Main

        ---

        @{ var test = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<IPublishedContent>("umb://document/68c8d8f273b04601a7e7d914b1cff0ab"); }
        @test.Url;
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
        @Umbraco.RenderMacro("RecentUpdates")
    </div>
</div>

Where I know, for a fact, that umb://document/68c8d8f273b04601a7e7d914b1cff0ab is an existing published document. And test returns null.

Right... I get it now. I think it just clicked in my head.

Thanks for your help.

Hi, related question to this... how can I use the Backoffice UI API to get content by Udi? I've checked the latest version of the ContentController in UmbracoApi and it still only takes int id to retrieve content.

Thanks @Jeavon Leopold, Your solution solved my problem

I've been struggling with this issue as well. I need the URL's for a RelatedLinks collection exposed on a model generated by Models Builder (Umbraco v 7.6.4). Here is a code snippet of the only way I could find to resolve this issue, and I don't like it because I'm forced to use the ContentService:

[ImplementPropertyType("services")]
public Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLinks Services
{
    get
    {
        // will need to perform this operation on all related links in the collection
        var relatedLink = this.GetPropertyValue<Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLinks>("services").First();
        var udiGuid = (Guid)Udi.Parse(relatedLink.Link).ToDictionary()["Guid"];
        var page = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService.GetById(udiGuid);
        var url = new global::umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNode(page.Id).NiceUrl;

        // returns null
        var helper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
        var pageTypedContent = helper.TypedContent(Udi.Parse(relatedLink.Link));

        return this.GetPropertyValue<Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLinks>("services");
    }
}

The UmbracoHelper.TypedContent method returns null when I pass it the Uid.

People having issues with Empty UDIs might want to check out this thread and my answer there.

Hi People,

So here is how I handle this. I miss the pages when it was just a simple list of Ids.

Here are two methods I use for getting this data. You have a choice of simply passing the string in or passing in the UDI.

public static IPublishedContent GetPublishedContentByUdi(string udi)
{
     var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
     return umbracoHelper.TypedContent(udi);
}

public static IPublishedContent GetPublishedContentByUdi(Udi udi)
{
     var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
     return umbracoHelper.TypedContent(udi);
}

If you do pass in the Udi here is a handy bit of code you might find useful.

Udi udi = Udi.Parse("umb://document/d4741f7f7acc4791a4dcb46f89b9f0b8");

I also wrote a blog about this since its troubled me a few times recently. https://www.umbrajobs.com/blog/posts/2018/june/umbraco-using-the-new-umbdocumentguidudi/

Kind Regards

David Armitage www.umbrajobs.com

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