I'm sure I don't understand where you want to go with this but let's find out with some questions ;-)

So you have a bunch of offices and a bunch of job applications.

1. On a job application you pick a office that has this application?
2. If job application has office 1, 2 and 3 selected you want to present the application 3 times once for office 1, once for office 2 and once for office 3?

This can be done in a partial view with a simple loop or lamda expression.

So what am I missing that the cloning is needed? Can you show us a simple structure of the site?

Hi Frans

Correct, the reason why i want to do it with the data, is because i want to avoid changing my templates. So the presentation of this data can continue as it has been made so far.

So the goal is to avoid changing the templates, by making the duplicates before, (which is still in some way in templates, but without manipulating all the sub-templates(partials) that are begin used.)

Its also because i need to do a sorting on it afterwards.

Currently i´m trying the following approach, still not working, but it might give you a more clear idea about how i see it could be done.

        IContent jobAsContent = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService.GetById(jobApplication.Id);
        foreach (dynamic office in offices) {
                IContent clonedContent = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService.Copy(jobAsContent, languageId, false);
                clonedContent.Id = jobApplication.Id;
                clonedContent.SetValue("offices", office.ToString());// need someway to set just one of the offices on this cloned object.
                allJobApplicationsList.Add(MyProject.Extensions.ContentExtensions.ToPublishedContent(clonedContent));

        }

I´m using this class, to convert IContent into IPublishedContent: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jbreuer/dde3605035179c34b7287850c45cb8c9/raw/570cbaa30365653dbcf4142e988eba4fc692ecad/ContentExtensions.cs

I hope this gives an idea about what i try to accomplish, Thanks

I´m not sure how much of the site structure you want or need to get a good understanding? Its maybe because i don't understand completely how its relevant.

Let me try to do my best to describe how its constructed. :-)

I get the JobApplications from Examine(To be correct i get the IDs from Examine), and turn that into a list of IPublishedContent.

Like this:

IEnumerable<SearchResult> pagedResults = searchResults.Skip(start);

foreach (var content in pagedResults) {
  IPublishedContent model= umbraco.TypedContent(content.Id);
  items.Add(model);
}

Each Job-Application is a node (aka. page), each has a MultiNode TreePicker used to pick an office-tag.

Each Office-tag is as well a node, located in a settings node in the root.

I dont know if thats enough for you to get an impression of the structure? its a quite complex site with many DocTypes, so I think describing the site structure will just be confusing. Thats why I wanted to focus on the specifics, which I think is; How to Runtime-Clone a node/IPublishedContent and change one of its property values, without creating it in the database or Umbraco. Just C# runtime clone, so I can parse that clone acting as if it was any other IPublishedContent object. So i can avoid changing the rest of templates. (cause the job-applications are using templates that many other DocType are using as well)

Thanks

I don't know of a way to clone IPublishedContent.

I think the fastest, easiest and correct way is to use a different template for this specific doctype or just load a different partial if a certain document type is the current one. We use these kind of structures a lot without any issue.

Umbraco gives you a lot of freedom to structure the site as you want and there are a lot of people making "interesting" choices. That's why I was curious about the structure.

I succeeded figuring it out my self.

This is my solution:

IContent dataAsContent = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService.GetById(content.Id);

string officeString = dataAsContent.GetValue<string>("offices");
if (officeString != null)
{

    string[] offices = officeString.Split(',');

    if (offices.Length > 1)
    {
        // if more than one office, we want to dublicate the content, so there is a content for each office, and each content should then only represent that specific office.
        foreach (string office in offices)
        {

            IContent clonedContent = new Content(dataAsContent.Name, languageId, dataAsContent.ContentType);// creating a new content object based on the original.

            clonedContent.Properties = dataAsContent.Properties.DeepClone() as PropertyCollection;// Need to clone the property collection, do no want to change the properties for the other clones.
            clonedContent.Properties["offices"].Value = office;// Set the office property value to the specific offie that we are cloning for right now.
            clonedContent.Id = content.Id;// Needed to set the id to the original contents ID, to get URLs correct.

            items.Add(Nolz.Extensions.ContentExtensions.ToPublishedContent(clonedContent));

        }
    }
    else
    {
        // just insert the item, no cloning needed.
        IPublishedContent data = umbraco.TypedContent(content.Id);
        items.Add(data);
    }

}
else
{
    // just insert the item, no cloning needed.
    IPublishedContent data = umbraco.TypedContent(content.Id);
    items.Add(data);
}

Hi Niels,

I'm curious if you solved your issue and especially how.

Frans

Hi Frans

Yes, I have the solution above. But I did not find an faster alternative, so I´m accepting that it might be slow.

The "Nolz.Extensions.ContentExtensions.ToPublishedContent" is basically just this class: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jbreuer/dde3605035179c34b7287850c45cb8c9/raw/570cbaa30365653dbcf4142e988eba4fc692ecad/ContentExtensions.cs

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