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  • jonok 297 posts 658 karma points
    Mar 19, 2019 @ 19:17
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    U8 - How to display the media URL from Media Picker property?

    I am trying to display the URL of a media item that has been selected from a media picker property. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    I have a nested content datatype:

    var contentBlocks = Model.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedElement>>("contentBlocks");

    and I am then trying to loop through these, and get a node from a content picker, and then get a media picker property named 'image' from this node:

    foreach(var item in contentBlocks){
    var contentBlock = item.GetProperty("block").Value<IPublishedElement>();
    var imageUrl = contentBlock.GetProperty("image").Value().Url;
}

    but I am having trouble retrieving the Url into the 'imageUrl' var. I am receiving the error "Cannot assign method group to an implicitly-typed variable", and I've tried a few different things but still can't get the Url property from the Image.

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  • Paul Seal 524 posts 2890 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Mar 19, 2019 @ 22:43
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    Hi Jonok

    This is how you do it in v8.

    var imageUrl = Model.Value<IPublishedContent>("imageAlias")?.Url ?? "";
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  • jonok 297 posts 658 karma points
    Mar 20, 2019 @ 08:33
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    One other thing Paul - what do the question marks do? Do they check if the property exists before attempting to get the URL?

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  • Paul Seal 524 posts 2890 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Mar 20, 2019 @ 09:13
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    Hi Jonok Yes, they check for nulls.

    The ?. is a Null conditional operator:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/null-conditional-operators

    And the ?? is a Null coalescing operator:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/null-coalescing-operator

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  • Natasha 9 posts 99 karma points
    Mar 20, 2020 @ 01:12
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    HI how do I write this for a macro? does it go inside curley braces for example? I would like to add an image to the latest latest blog Macro but so far it is either coming up blank or throwing an error

    @post.Excerpt

                <div class="col-md-3">
   var imageUrl = item.Value<IPublishedContent>("listingImage")?.Url ?? "";
   <img src="image.Url">
                </div>
        }
            </div>
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  • jonok 297 posts 658 karma points
    Mar 19, 2019 @ 22:53
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    Thanks very much Paul. Not sure why I was using IPublishedElement (I think I saw it on some example code somewhere), but changing it to IPublishedContent has fixed it.

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  • Søren Gregersen 441 posts 1884 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Mar 20, 2019 @ 07:34
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    An element does not have an url :-)

    It only lives as a property on a document, like nested content.

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