Hi Tom,

You need to use your news items 5 differeent places on your website, then you can create a partial view or a patial view macro and inserted it on the template where the news items should appears.

I have made some razor code that should point you in the right direction, depeding on how your content / site structure is. But here is the code that you should you for getting news items that you can reuse on the your site.

@{
    @* Get the root of the website *@
    var root = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("umbNewsOverview").FirstOrDefault();
}

<ul>
    @foreach (var page in root.Children.Where("Visible"))
    {
        <li class="@(page.IsAncestorOrSelf(CurrentPage) ? "current" : null)">
            <a href="@page.Url">@page.Name</a>
        </li>
    }
</ul>

I will try to explain what the code does, it will go up to the first level on your site, and then search the tree structure to find the first item with the document type alias of umbNewsOverview, and the pull out all it´s children. So depeding on your structure, then you need to change the umbNewsOverview, so it match with your alias for the document type that you are using for your overview page for your news section.

If you are using Umbraco 7.2, then you have a query builder that can help you buliding your Razor code. When you are in a partial view, parial view macro or your in template, then press the button at the right on the ribbon. If you use the query builder the code would look something like this.

@{
    var root = CurrentPage.Site().FirstChild("umbNewsOverview");
    
    foreach(var page in root.Children.Where("Visible")){
        <li class="@(page.IsAncestorOrSelf(CurrentPage) ? "current" : null)">
            <a href="@page.Url">@page.Name</a>
        </li>
    }
}

If you have access to Umbraco TV, there is two chapters about Razor http://umbraco.tv/videos/implementor/working-with-umbraco-data/razor-syntax/introduction-to-razor/ and http://umbraco.tv/videos/implementor/working-with-umbraco-data/querying-umbraco-data-with-razor/

Here is also some documentation on Razor https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/Articles-Parent-and-Article-Items

Hope this make sense and helps. If you have any questions to this don't hesitate to ask again.

/Dennis

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