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  • David 29 posts 110 karma points
    Jan 19, 2015 @ 00:20
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    Inherit property value from parent page & combining with current page

    Hi,

    I'm hoping to find the best solution for this requirement below.

    My node tree looks like this:

    Home
    - Sub1
    - Sub2
    - Sub3

    Home is Doctype "Home", Sub3 is Doctype "HomeSpecial".  HomeSpecial inherits from Home. Both Home and Sub3 have ArchetypeModel properties which I use to display a rotating banner, called "Features" (Defined on the "Home" doctype).

    When Sub3 is requested I want to show both Home's Features property contents and Sub3's Features property contents in the rotating banner.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jan 19, 2015 @ 09:45
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    Hi David,

    Did you want to combine the values in the editor itself (back-office)? or only on the front-end?

    If it's only on the front-end, how are you currently getting the values from your Archetype property? (via a controller or code in the view directly?)

    The general idea would be to get both ArchetypeModel objects and combine their fieldsets - then render them out.

    Cheers,
    - Lee

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  • David 29 posts 110 karma points
    Jan 20, 2015 @ 00:48
    David
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    Hi Lee,

    Thanks for the response.

    I hadn't thought about combining the values  in the backend - but this would be a good option.  Is there a way you can suggest to achieve this?

    Alternatively, I can combine in the front-end.  I'm currently rendering the ArchetypeModel properties in a partial view:

    var model = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<ArchetypeModel>("feature");

    Then looping through:


    @foreach (var fieldset in model)
                 {
                     if (fieldset.HasValue("featureType"))
                     {
                    ...
                    ...
                     }
                 {
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  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jan 20, 2015 @ 11:23
    Lee Kelleher
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    Hi David,

    Personally I'd go with handling this in the front-end (either controller or view). Do something like this:

    var parentFeature = Model.Content.Parent.GetPropertyValue<ArchetypeModel>("feature");
var currentFeature = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<ArchetypeModel>("feature");

var combined = new List<ArchetypeFieldsetModel>();

combined.AddRange(parentFeature.Fieldsets);
combined.AddRange(currentFeature.Fieldsets);

foreach (var item in combined)
{
    ...
}

    Basically you're making a new (empty) list of the fieldsets, then adding the parent fieldsets, then the ones from the current page.

    Hope this helps?

    Cheers,
    - Lee

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  • David 29 posts 110 karma points
    Jan 29, 2015 @ 00:48
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    Thanks for the help, Lee.  I'll give this approach a go.

    Cheers,

    David.

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