Hi Greg and welcome to our,

You need to use a little bit more code, and there a multiple options for place your code. You could place it directly into your template, our you could create a partial view or partial view macro.

The documentation for the dropdown list multiple, publish keys can you find here: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/built-in-property-editors-v7/DropDown-List-Multiple-Publish-Keys or the dropdown list multiple http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/built-in-property-editors-v7/DropDown-List-Multiple

And since your are new to Umbraco I think that you should have a look at Umbraco TV, this is video tutourials about Umbraco, and  there are some free videos about the basic concepts of Umbraco http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/content-editor/ and http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/. One of the milestones in Umbraco is the concept called Document types, here you define fields for the user in the backoffice. http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/what-is-a-document-type/

Some of the videos are requiring a subscription to Umbraco TV, and you can find the prices here. http://umbraco.tv/plans-signup/

Another good starting point would be http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/

You are always welcome to write on the forum, too. We are friendly people. who try to help each other. So if you have other questions just create a topic on the forum.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi Greg,

Great direction from Dennis for best practices.

"What is the proper way to create an array from this comma separated list that I can then use in a foreach?" - here's one way..

@{ 
   string[] categories = Umbraco.Field("appCategory").ToString().Split(',');
   foreach(string category in categories)
   {
     //Do something with category here...
   }
}

Thanks guys, I do need to just find my way around the info. I actually bought a year long membership to umbraco.tv.

My syntax was off using Split() but I was in the ball park. I really appreciate the help... I kind of went into this kicking and screaming but I actually am start to really like working with this. I think my issue is more getting around Razor. I got the site completely scaffolded... now I just dealing with random issues.

Greg what property type is appCategory?

If its a Multi Node Tree Picker. You are better creating some complied code that takes in your IPublishedContent, does the split and return you a enumeration of the individual strings.

Charlie :)

Hey folks

I'm having a bit of trouble with splitting a string at a comma. I get the correct string from the api (Mon,Wed,Fri,Sun) but when I try to split it and foreach the days the macro crashes and the logs give a CS1513 error.

Does anyone have a solution for this as I can't seem to find any.

Here's my code.

@{
    if (service.Properties != null && service.Properties.Where(i => i.ID == 331).FirstOrDefault() != null) {
        var categories = @service.Properties.Where(i => i.ID == 331).FirstOrDefault().Value.ToString().Split(",");
        foreach (var category in categories){
            <span>@category</span>
        }
    }
}

Hi Gisli,

Don´t know if the can be the problem, but could you try the code below. I have removed the @ before in the variable called categories because you are already in the Razor context.

@{
    if (service.Properties != null && service.Properties.Where(i => i.ID == 331).FirstOrDefault() != null) {
        var categories = service.Properties.Where(i => i.ID == 331).FirstOrDefault().Value.ToString().Split(",");
        foreach (var category in categories){
            <span>@category</span>
        }
    }
}

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

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