Hi Jeremy,

Here's a quick example we use to grab blog posts by categories.

var startNode = Umbraco.Content(1234); var selection = startNode.Descendants("BlogPost").Where("Visible").Where("@postCategories.ToString().Contains(@0)", "name of category");

foreach(var post in selection) { // render the posts here }

Not the best practice to hard code the start node so we have a settings tab with a content picker on the homepage to pick the blog section for each site.

Hope this helps!

Amir

Hi Jeremy,

what we always do for this kind of queries is creating extension methods on the IPublishedContent class ( which is the type each content node has ).

So what you could do is creating a static class called RazorExtensions and have a method called CheckProject like this:

public static class RazorExtensions
{
    public static bool CheckProject(this IPublishedContent node, string project)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(project))
        {
            var projects = node.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<string>>("projectList");

            return projects.Any(x => x == project);
        }

        return false;
    }
}

What this method does is checking the current IPublishedContent node from the list and check if the property projectList has any given project ( which is the second attribute from the method.

It returns true if this is the case else false.

Then you can call this method where you need it ( make sure to reference to this class with using ).

Like for instance:

Model.Content.Children.Where(x => x.CheckProject("project1"));

Which will give you a IEnumerable list of content nodes which has project1 in the projectList property.

*This is manualy typed so can contain typos!

Hope this helps.

/Michaël

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