Hi Mathias,

Can you share code of your view or macro?

Is it razor?

We will find solution together.

Thanks,

Alex

I prefere to use Strong type like Model.Content instead of dynamic "CurrentPage"

For strong type object you will get the intellisense which make your life easier. below is my code.

var blogPosts = Model.Content.Descendants("BlogPost").Where(x=>x.GetPropertyValue<bool>("Visible")).OrderBy(x=>x.CreateDate).ThenByDescending(x=>x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("metaPublishedOn"));

Hope it will help :)

Yasir

Hi Guys,

Yasir, thanks for suggestion, I would change it little bit:

var blogPosts = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Descendants("BlogPost").Where(x => x.IsVisible()).OrderBy(x => x.CreateDate).ThenByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("metaPublishedOn"));

Thanks,

Alex

Thanks for your help!! I have tried your solution Yasir, but I didn't get the result I was looking for. :/

I think the problem is that metaPublishedOn can be empty and then the CreateDate should be used instead. If metaPublishedOn is filled out this should overrule the CreateDate. The result I got with your solution was the same thing I experienced with my own, if the metaPublishedOn was set the item would get listed first - no matter the date. Alex I don't know if your solution will help with this problem!?

I did get the job done with the following code (feel free to comment on the code itself - still learning to code Razor properly):

var descendants = CurrentPage.Descendants("BlogPost").Where("Visible");

List<dynamic> items = new List<dynamic>();

foreach (var descendant in descendants){

    var publishedOn = (descendant.HasValue("metaPublishedOn")) ? descendant.metaPublishedOn : descendant.CreateDate;

    var item = new 
    {
        publishedOn = publishedOn,
        id = descendant.Id
    };

    items.Add(item);

}

List<dynamic> sortedItems = items.OrderByDescending(x=>x.publishedOn).ToList();

This is a good post and pointed me in the right direction, I'll reference my Umbraco 8 solution where I had to combine two lists and sort, similar to above.

var list1 = list; //Model.Children
var list2 = list; //Model.Root().Children.Where(x => x.Id == INT)

Combine Lists

    var combined = list1.Concat(list2).ToList();

sort lists as per above example updated to umbraco 8 (i am using custom publicationDate field (metaPublishedOn used above)

var ordered = combined.OrderByDescending(x => x.HasValue("publicationDate") ? x.Value<DateTime>("publicationDate") : x.CreateDate);

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