Hi Matt

You should be able to loop over the articles like this, if the above selection returns anything of course.

@foreach (article in articles){
   <h1>article.propertyName1</h1>
   <p>article.propertyName2</p>
}

Does that work?

/Jan

Hi Jan,

the collection does in fact have items in it, but when i try to do what you mentioned i get this error:

@foreach (var article in articles)
{
     @article.productLine

} 

 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'productLine' and no extension method 'productLine' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Hi Matt,

I think that you should be able to do something like this.

@{  
    var articles =Model.Content.Parent.Children.Where(p => p.ContentType.Alias=="ProjectArticle").OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate).Take(8);
    <ul>
        @foreach(var article in articles.Where(x => x.IsVisible()){ 
            <li>
                    @article.Name
            </li>
        }
    </ul>
}

And if you have a custom property you can access it by article.PropertyAlias. Try to see this documentation too for an for each loop. http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/UmbracoHelper/#TypedContent%28intid%29

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi Dennis,

See my previous reply, when i try to access item.propertyAlias I get an error.

Hi Matt,

Did you just get the same error if you try to use the item.Name, what I am trying to find out, is why you are getting this. Is it because that you access a wrong propertyAlias perhaps,

What if you do this, then you should get the name of the item.

@{  
    var articles =Model.Content.Parent.Children.Where(p => p.ContentType.Alias=="ProjectArticle").OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate).Take(8);
    <ul>
        @foreach(var item in articles.Where(x => x.IsVisible()){ 
            <li>
                    @item.Name
            </li>
        }
    </ul>
}

Looking forward to hear from you.

/Dennis

@item.Name works, but none of the property aliases work, they all give the above error. this is what's available to me at runtime:

Hi Matt,

A light just went straight to me. You are using strongly typed Razor so what if you do something like this.

@{  
    var articles = Model.Content.Parent.Children.Where(p => p.ContentType.Alias=="ProjectArticle").OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate).Take(8);
    <ul>
        @foreach(var item in articles.Where(x => x.IsVisible()){ 
            <li>
                @item.GetPropertyValue("ProductLine")
            </li>
        }
    </ul>
}

And you can add the return value. it could be a string like this:

@item.GetPropertyValue<string>("ProductLine")

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

thanks for your help, but my object doesn't even have access to the .GetPropertyValue method. when i try to use it i get the following error:

 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'GetPropertyValue' and no extension method 'GetPropertyValue' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' could be found

am i missing something else? is there a "using" statement or something else i'm missing? it really shouldn't be this hard for me to just get access to a collection of pages and their properties

Hi Matt,

Is it possible for you to share the whole file of code that you have. Then I think it eaiser for people to see what is going on, and come up with some ideas of what can be wrong since you can access custom properties.

/Dennis

i've tried with a template as simple as this:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@{  

    var articles = Model.Content.Parent.Children.Where(p => p.ContentType.Alias=="ProjectArticle").OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate).Take(8);

        @foreach(var item in articles.Where(x => x.IsVisible())){ 

                @item.GetPropertyValue("ProductLine")

        }

}

is this supposed to be a collection of IPublishedContent? Because it looks like that object does NOT have the IsVisible or GetPropertyValue methods/properties.

Hi Matt,

Good to hear that you found a solution, and can move on with your Umbraco project.

/Dennis

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