Hi Ren

It depends on which approach you are using for your templates, dynamic, strongly typed models or IPublished content.

But the principle is the same.

eg. from the Haircuts document type, you need to be able to find your 'openingTimes' document type, and then list out it's children.

You can get access to the root node of your site from within your template by using any of the following:

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var rootByDynamic = @CurrentPage.Site();

var rootByTypedContent = @Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().FirstOrDefault();

Once you have your root element, you can then look for descendants of type 'openingTimes'

//using IPublishedContent
var openingTimesByDescendants = rootByTraversing.Descendants().Where(f=>f.DocumentTypeAlias == "openingTimes").FirstOrDefault();

// using dynamic
var openingTimesByDynamicDescendants = rootByDynamic.Descendants().Where("DocumentTypeAlias == \"openingTimes\"").First();

//using Xpath
var openingTimesByXPath = Umbraco.TypedContentAtXPath("//openingTimes").FirstOrDefault();

Then when you have your openingTimes node you can list out the openingTimesDays elements as they are children of the openingTimes docType: eg something like this:

foreach (var otDay in openingTimesByDescendants.Children()){
<li>@otDay.GetPropertyValue<string>("day") - @otDay.GetPropertyValue<string>("openingTime") - @otDay.GetPropertyValue<string>("closingTime")</li>
}

or in dynamics

foreach (var otDay in openingTimesByDescendants.Children()){
<li>@otDay.day - @otDay.openingTime -@ otDay.closingTime</li>
}

More info here: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/ and https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Reference/Templating/Mvc/querying

Hello Marc,

Result! Thank you so much.

I read, and re-read, the page you provided before posting, hoping to understand it, but it was tough.

I still struggle with what to use: dynamic, strongly typed models or IPublished content. As I don't fully understand the differences.

I will continue to work through the documentation. I'm sure (hope) it will click!

Many thanks.

Hello Alex,

Cool, thanks for the advice. I will stick with Models.

Regards, Ren

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