Hi Marc,

I agree this seems like a great solutions.

I don't particularly need to display any data related to the job so I didn't consider storing anything in the database. That said though this isn't difficult and would mean that I can at least provide some SEO friendly content and a much better user experience if I did have a little job information to go along with the landing page.

I am going to attempt this solution over the next few days so I will let you know how I get on.

It's the content finder I was looking for. I used it in Umbraco 7 but forgot about it for Umbraco 8. After reading the link you sent I've learnt you can set an order the when the content finders get applied. I didn't realise you could do this so thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Kind Regards

David

Hi Marc,

Thanks. I implemented your solution exactly as you put it. It worked a treat.

For anyone interested are is a bit of code that might help you do the same.

My Content Finder

using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Web.Routing;
using Website.Core.Helpers;

namespace Website.Core.Events
{
    public class ContentFinder : IContentFinder
    {
        private readonly ISiteHelper _siteHelper;

        public ContentFinder(ISiteHelper siteHelper)
        {
            _siteHelper = siteHelper;
        }

        public bool TryFindContent(PublishedRequest contentRequest)
        {
            var navigationSettings = _siteHelper.GetNavigationSettings();

            if (navigationSettings.JobListPage != null && navigationSettings.JobExpiredPage != null)
            {
                var path = contentRequest.Uri.GetAbsolutePathDecoded();
                string jobListPageUrl = navigationSettings.JobListPage.Url;

                if (path.StartsWith(jobListPageUrl))
                {
                    var content = contentRequest.UmbracoContext.Content.GetById(navigationSettings.JobExpiredPage.Id);
                    if (content != null)
                    {
                        contentRequest.PublishedContent = content;
                        return true;
                    }
                }
            }

            return false;
        }
    }
}

My Composer required to tell Umbraco about my content finder.

using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Web;
using Umbraco.Web.Routing;

namespace Website.Core.Events
{
    [RuntimeLevel(MinLevel = RuntimeLevel.Run)]
    public class UpdateContentFindersComposer : IUserComposer
    {
        public void Compose(Composition composition)
        {
            composition.ContentFinders().InsertAfter<ContentFinderByUrl, ContentFinder>();
        }
    }
}

My Trashing Event - It seems I can only get access to the node URL in trashing which I used to insert and query my custom database table.

using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Core.Scoping;
using Umbraco.Core.Services.Implement;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;
using Umbraco.Core.Events;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Website.Core.Services;
using Website.Core.Helpers;

namespace Website.Core.Events
{
    public class TrashedEvent : IComponent
    {
        private IScopeProvider _scopeProvider;
        private IJobHelper _jobHelper;
        private IJobService _jobService;

        public TrashedEvent(IScopeProvider scopeProvider, IJobHelper jobHelper,  IJobService jobService)
        {
            _scopeProvider = scopeProvider;
            _jobHelper = jobHelper;
            _jobService = jobService;
        }

        public void Initialize()
        {
            ContentService.Trashed += ContentService_Trashed;
        }
        public void Terminate()
        {

        }

        private void ContentService_Trashed(IContentService sender, MoveEventArgs<IContent> args)
        {
            foreach (var node in args.MoveInfoCollection)
            {
                if (node.Entity.ContentType.Alias == "jobDetailsPage")
                {
                    _jobService.DeleteJob(node.Entity.Id);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

TrashingComposer - To tell umbraco about my trashing event.

using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Composing;

namespace Website.Core.Events
{
    [RuntimeLevel(MinLevel = RuntimeLevel.Run)]
    public class TrashingComposer : ComponentComposer<TrashingEvent>
    {
        // nothing needed to be done here!
    }
}

And here is some database work.

My Insert Code

public void InsertExpiredJob(string url, string title, string summary)
        {
            try
            {
                PocoExpiredJob expiredJob = new PocoExpiredJob
                {
                    Url = url,
                    Title = title,
                    Summary = summary,
                    CreatedDate = DateTime.Now
                };

                using (var scope = _scopeProvider.CreateScope())
                {
                    _ = scope.Database.Insert(expiredJob);
                    scope.Complete();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

            }
        }

My Select Code

 public PocoExpiredJob GetJobExpiredByUrl(string url)
        {
            PocoExpiredJob pocoExpiredJob = null;
            using (var scope = _scopeProvider.CreateScope())
            {
                pocoExpiredJob = scope.Database.FirstOrDefault<PocoExpiredJob>("SELECT * FROM RDExpiredJob WHERE Url=@0 ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC", url);
                scope.Complete();
            }

            return pocoExpiredJob;
        }

I'm sure there will be bits of code in here someone will find useful at some point.

Thanks again

David

Awesome!

And now you can build a dashboard for the Umbraco backoffice, querying the db table and showing editors a report of 'recently expired jobs' ... :-P

regards

Marc

Actually it leads me onto a content app I have planned.

I just remembered I have another similar forum post open which pretty much gets answered by this too.

Just a simple internal analytics app which logs specific page views. I will probably go ahead and create this in a couple of weeks when I get all my projects finished up.

Cheers for your help.

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