Hi Darren

What approaches have you been trying? Could you share some code?

/Jan

Hi Jan,

I've tried a number of different approaches as listed on the forum here - XLST and macros. Some date from a few years back.

This macro didn't work:

@{IPublishedContent newsNode = Umbraco.Content(1081);}

@foreach (var newsItem in newsNode .Children().Take(4))
    {
        @{
        if (@newsItem.HasValue("newsThumb"))
        {
            var mediaItem = Umbraco.TypedMedia(@room.GetPropertyValue("newsThumb"));
            <img src="@mediaItem.GetPropertyValue("umbracoFile")"  />
        }
    }
    <p><a href="@newsItem.NiceUrl()">@newsArticle.Name</a></p>
    <p>@newsItem.GetPropertyValue("newsDescription")</p>
}

Neither did this XLST

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
    <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:param name="MaxNoChars" select="190" />
<xsl:template match="/">

  <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage//ancestor-or-self::doTextpage[@isDoc and showOnHomepage = '1']">    
  <div class="redPanel">
    <h2><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" /></h2>
    <p><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(umbraco.library:Replace(current()/bodyText, '&amp;nbsp;', '')), $MaxNoChars, '...')" /></p>
    <p><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}"> <img src="/img/btnMore.png" alt="read more" tooltip="Read more" align="right" /> </a></p>
    </div>
    </xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Hi Darren

Ok, but if you write something like this then it should work

@{
   //Fetch the blogposts from a certain node id
   var blogPosts = Umbraco.Content(1081);

  foreach(var blogPost in blogPosts.Children()){
     @blogPost.Id <br />
  }
}

Hope this helps.

/Jan

Hi Darren

You're welcome - Good you got it working. I only rendered the ID since I was not sure what content you wanted to render yourself - But be aware that the above code can be fragile if the blogposts node is ever deleted since it relies on that the id exists - It's probably not likely that it will be deleted but it's just never safe to make assumptions - But the liberty to do so also depends on who the editor is and how often the content is edited etc. etc. etc.

Just thought I would mention it - Happy coding! :)

/Jan

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