Hi Phil

Could you show a screendump of what it looks like in your backoffice? It should just return a falsy value like empty, 0, null for instance I think.

/Jan

Jan,

I have discovered that the drop down property was actually mandatory - changing the property to non-mandatory returns an empty string as I expected.

However, when creating the content with the property set to mandatory, I was able to successfully create without setting a value. This is no longer the case - when I change to property back to mandatory, I cannot create content without selecting from the drop down (as expected!)

Very unusual, but seems to have resolved itself! :)

Jan,

As a somewhat related problem, I am attempting to get all nodes where the value of the drop down list property is equal to a certain string, or has not been specified:

var nodeList = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("myDocumentType")
    .Where("property = @0 || property = @1", "value", "");

However, this always returns nothing. What is the best way to go about this?

Hi Phil

Well that's probably because you're asking for those "myDocumentType" aliases where the value is either "value" or empty.

I think that you should instead be able to do this

var nodeList CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("myDocumentType");

@foreach(var node in nodeList){

  if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(node.ToString())){
     @node
  }

}

Does this work?

/Jan

Jan,

I don't think that that will achieve what I am after - let's say that I have a document type called Blog, which has three properties:

• Title textstring
• Category dropdownlist
• Body RTE

I am attempting to create a paged list of blogs, so I need to extract all blogs into a variable before displaying so that I can evaluate the count.

However, in the list of blogs, I would like to show blogs where the category is equal to "Tutorial" or the category has not been selected.

How would I be able to select a list of blogs that have a category of "Tutorial" or a category of ""?

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