Hi Dennis,

Of course - here it is:

I'm trying to execute my razor in my Home view page to show top 3 of my last projects.

/Sharmarke

Hi Sharmarke,

I assume that you projects is child nodes of the project node. if so, then you should be able to do something like this.

        @{      

            var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOfSelf(1).Descendants("Project").FirstOrDefault();
        }

 @foreach (var item in selection.Children.Where("Visible").OrderBy("CreateDate desc").Take(3))
        {

            <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-12">
                <article class="portfolio-item">
                    <div class="portfolio-thumbnail">
                        <a style="background-image: @item.GetPropertyValue("projectImage")" href="@item.Url">
                            <div style="@item.GetPropertyValue("hoverColor")" class="overlay-img">
                                <span class="overlay-ico">
                                    <i class="fa fa-link fa-5"></i>
                                </span>
                            </div>
                        </a>
                    </div>
                    <span class="separator-small"></span>
                    <h3 class="portfolio-title">@item.Name</h3>
                </article>
            </div>
        }

Remember to change the project in the Descendants() so it match your alias for the project page.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi Dennis,

I changed it to this:

var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOfSelf(1).Descendants("Portfolio").FirstOrDefault();

Now I don't have the 'null' anymore, but it doens't show the three latest projects

My child nodes are named 'Post',

/Sharmarke

Hi Sharmarke,

Okay if you try run this piece of code below did you then get the name of the name of the portfolio node

@{          
      var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOfSelf(1).Descendants("Portfolio").FirstOrDefault();
 }

@selection.Name

/Dennis

Hi Dennis

I've tried that - and I still get nothing

/Sharmarke

Hi Sharmake,

Okay then I think that the alias of your portfolio page could be wrong.

Be sure that you are adding the right document type alias,

In the image blow the document type alias is umbTextPage

/Dennis

Hi Dennis

Should I use my Portfolio page's alias or my child node's alias 'Post'?

/Sharmarke

Hi Sharmake,

You should use the document type alias of the Portfolio.

What the the code below does, is that we go up to the root node of your website, then you search down your content tree until you find a page that uses the umbTextPage document type, and then you take the first.

@{          
  var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("umbTextPage").FirstOrDefault();
}

@selection.Name

What you need to do then is to write a foreach loop so we can get the children of this page, in your case the posts. And in this foreach loop you can add the Where, OrderBy and the Take methods.

Hope this make sense.

/Dennis

Hi Dennis

Sorry for the late reply,

I understand clearly of what you're saying, and I've tried it out again,

But it still shows nothing.

Here's my code:

var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOfSelf(1).Descendants("Portfolio").FirstOrDefault();


 @foreach (var item in selection.Children.Where("Visible").OrderBy("CreateDate desc").Take(3))
        {
            <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-12">
                <article class="portfolio-item">
                    <div class="portfolio-thumbnail">
                        <a style="background-image: @item.GetPropertyValue("projectImage")" href="@item.Url">
                            <div style="@item.GetPropertyValue("hoverColor")" class="overlay-img">
                                <span class="overlay-ico">
                                    <i class="fa fa-link fa-5"></i>
                                </span>
                            </div>
                        </a>
                    </div>
                    <span class="separator-small"></span>
                    <h3 class="portfolio-title">@item.Name</h3>
                </article>
            </div>
        }

I go to the root of my website, finds the alias of portfolio and takes it children. But nothing seems working at all..

/Sharmarke

Hi again, Dennis

I found something interesting,

I changed this:

var selection = CurrentPage.AncestorOfSelf(1).Descendants("portfolioPage").FirstOrDefault();

To this:

var selection = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("portfolioPage").FirstOrDefault();

And now it's displaying my latest three projects.. But why isn't it working, when I'm using the 'CurrentPage'?

/Sharmarke

Hi Dennis

Thanks again for your help and time - I appreciated it.

Take care,

/Sharmarke