You can put all common content in an own root. Then you can use a contentPicker to select the nodes to show and via

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($currentPage/data [@alias='ALIASOFTHECONTENTPICKER'])/data [@alias='bodyText']" />

I have made a complete shared content section for our new website with the tree multi picker

hth, Thomas

Hi Thomas

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I fully understand. I can't use that XSLT you show above as a content type. Could you please explain a bit more.

I don't want to have to create anything on the sites which display the common content (site 1 and site 2 in the illustration above). I would ideally like something that I can create as part of the common site and then with properties, pick which child sites it should be shown in.If that is not possible, I would be interested in hearing how you achieve your common content section, but I'm quite new to this so all the detail you could provide would be appreciated

I've tried myself and had very little success I must say

thanks in advance

Carl

First create a section where you can put in your common pages. guess you have an own document type called common with a generic property with alias bodyText as a Tiny MCE.

Then you can create a document type called GetCommon with a generic property from type ContentPicker (alias = contentId). Then you can create two nodes below page 1.2 from document type GetCommon. there you can use the content picker to select the common pages. In the template you are using you can use the umbraco item with some inline xslt:

<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="contentId" xslt="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById({0})/data [@alias = 'bodyText']" />

hth, Thomas

Ahh, take a look into the wiki for the umbraco item documentation: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/templates/umbracoitem-element

Thanks Thomas - I'll look now. Thanks for your help

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