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Owain Williams 480 posts 1412 karma points MVP 6x c-trib

Jul 22, 2015 @ 14:59

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Content picker to link to a blog post

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Umbraco 7

Hi, I have a content picker on one of my document types. The plan is to pick a blog post to link to from another page outwith Articulate. When I try and display the link, all I get is the node id.

Is it possible to link to the blog post and if so, how would I go about it.

I'm wondering if it's possible to use the node id in some way to find the relevant blog post and popular a url.

Thanks, Owain.

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Shannon Deminick 1525 posts 5271 karma points MVP 2x

Jul 22, 2015 @ 15:00

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how are you trying to "display the link" ?

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Owain Williams 480 posts 1412 karma points MVP 6x c-trib

Jul 22, 2015 @ 15:04
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Hi Shannon, I just tried with a the Umbraco field name.
```
@Umbraco.Field("linkToRaceReport")
```
Which brings back 1709 as the node id.
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Dennis Aaen 4499 posts 18254 karma points admin hq c-trib

Jul 22, 2015 @ 15:33

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Hi Owain,

Try to see the documentation about how to the the link url from a content picker.

https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Using-Umbraco/Backoffice-Overview/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors-v7/Content-Picker

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

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Shannon Deminick 1525 posts 5271 karma points MVP 2x

Jul 22, 2015 @ 16:27
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Yes, a content picker will only return an ID, that is normal thing with how Umbraco works.

You need to take that Id and get the IPublishedContent item for it which will give you the URL:
```
@{ 
  var linkedContent = 
           Umbraco.TypedContent(
                  Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("linkToRaceReport");

  var linkedContentUrl = linkedContent != null ? linkedContent.Url : null;

 }
```
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Owain Williams 480 posts 1412 karma points MVP 6x c-trib

Jul 22, 2015 @ 21:02

Thanks guys!

Now have that working perfectly. Wrapped it in an If statement so it only shows if I've made a selection with the content picker as well.

    @if (CurrentPage.linkToRaceReport != null && !(CurrentPage.linkToRaceReport is Umbraco.Core.Dynamics.DynamicNull))
                { 
  var linkedContent = 
           Umbraco.TypedContent(Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("linkToRaceReport"));

  var linkedContentUrl = linkedContent != null ? linkedContent.Url : null;
<h3>Race report</h3>
<a href="@linkedContentUrl">@linkedContent.Name</a>

                }

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