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Matt 358 posts 841 karma points

Feb 23, 2019 @ 11:04
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Trying to add recently added section
Hello all,

So I'm making a basic website where a small shop can post there products on their site, I created sub categories for the products, but what I want to do now is have a list of recently added products on the main stock page.

I'm really struggling to get anything to work.

I've tried going right back to the basics but I'm just getting errors and nothing rendering?

This is my current structure;

And this is the code I'm adding to my main "stock" template
```
    @{
    var selection = Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("stock").Children("products")
                        .Where(x => x.IsVisible())
                        .OrderBy("CreateDate desc");
}
<ul>
    @foreach(var item in selection){
        <li>
            <a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>
        </li>
    }
</ul>
```
Ooops it might help if I added the error;

Thanks in advance,

Matt
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Dirk De Grave 4541 posts 6021 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib

Feb 23, 2019 @ 11:21
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Hi Matt,

Regarding your error message, it says you've already defined the variable selection... obviously the code shown is not the complete template code, so it might be used/declared already elsewhere in the template.

On to the technical part... in the assumption that "products" is the doc type alias of a product, the statement
```
Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("stock").Children("products")
```
will not work as product nodes in tree are NOT immediate children of your "Stock" node, but grand children, so you need to use
```
Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("stock").Descendants("products")
```
It'll work in your case and probably won't suffer from performance issues (if you don't have too many products/categories), but it's not the best approach, see https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Reference/Common-Pitfalls/#querying-with-descendants-descendantsorself

--Dirk
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Matt 358 posts 841 karma points

Mar 31, 2019 @ 17:45

Hmm I thought I had this working but seems its not quite there.

    @{
    Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("stock").Descendants("products")
                        .Where(x => x.IsVisible())
                        .OrderBy("CreateDate desc");
}
<ul>
    @foreach(var item in selection){
        <li>
            <a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>
        </li>
    }
</ul>

This is my code, but its picking up the categories e.g Lamps,Chairs,Tables rather then the products inside of those categories.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

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Søren Kottal 712 posts 4570 karma points MVP 6x c-trib

Mar 31, 2019 @ 19:02

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Hi Matt

Is the doctype for Lamps,Chairs,Tables by any chance "products"?

You need to put your product-doctype into the Descendants call.

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Matt 358 posts 841 karma points

Mar 31, 2019 @ 19:29

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Hello,

No the doctype for lamps etc is called "StockSubCat" the products doc type is called products

Which is what I'm getting confused why it doesn't seem to work?

Thanks

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Chris Evans 137 posts 353 karma points c-trib

Mar 31, 2019 @ 23:11
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I think we may need to see your entire view, not just this section of it. I get the feeling you've already got a variable on the same view called selection which is what you're actually looping through in your foreach statement.

can you try this:
```
    @{
    var products = Model.Content.Site().FirstChild("stock").Descendants("products")
                        .Where(x => x.IsVisible())
                        .OrderBy("CreateDate desc");
}
<ul>
    @foreach(var item in products){
        <li>
            <a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>
        </li>
    }
</ul>
```
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