Hi Doogie,

Did you try like that:

foreach (var article in nodes.Where(x => x.CreateDate.Year == 2012 && x.CreateDate.Month == 7))

Best

I have used similar before getting a course name from a list of courses. In this case I tried your code with the variables in and got the following error.

"Cannot use a lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type"

I am looking up what this means but it's still open.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Doogie,

You can use strongly typed nodes. Can you show your current code ?

Thanks

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{  
var blogNode = Umbraco.Content(1147);
var articles = blogNode.Descendants("Article").OrderBy("CreateDate");   
int lastYear = 0;
int lastMonth = 0;
}

<div class="archive">
<h2>Archive</h2>
<ul class="archivenav">
@foreach (var e in articles)
{
    int year = e.CreateDate.Year;
    int month = e.CreateDate.Month;

    if (year > lastYear)
    {
    <li class="toggle-trigger">
    @year
    </li>
    }

    if (year != lastYear || month > lastMonth)
    {
        <div class="toggle-box" style=""> 
          <li class="toggle-trigger">
              @e.CreateDate.ToString("MMM")
          </li>

        <div class="toggle-box" style="">

            @{
            var yearv = year;
            var monthv = month; 
            var nodes = articles.Where(x => x.CreateDate.Year == yearv && x.CreateDate.Month == monthv);
             }


            @foreach( var node in nodes)
            {
            <li>TEST</li>
            }



        </div>  
        </div>



    }

    lastYear = year;
    lastMonth = month;

}
</ul>
</div>

Cool after your wee change above I changed the test bit to.

@foreach( var node in nodes)
            {
            var title = node.GetPropertyValue<string>("copyHeader");
            <li>@title</li>
            }

And everything works fine.

Thanks very much Alex.

Doogie, you are welcome !

Ok for anyone interested I have cleaned it up a bit as the second set of variables were for me to check where the hell it broke :)

What this does is create a list of article headlines by YEAR - MONTH without having to use date folders. The styles are related to an accordion but could be just UL LI etc. and the node number is the parent node of a bunch of articles with the page type Article.

Thanks again.

Rob

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
    @{  
    var blogNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1147);
    var articles = blogNode.Descendants("Article").OrderBy("CreateDate");   
    int lastYear = 0;
    int lastMonth = 0;
    }
    <div class="archive">
    <h2>Archive</h2>
    <ul class="archivenav">
    @foreach (var e in articles)
    {
        int year = e.CreateDate.Year;
        int month = e.CreateDate.Month;
        if (year > lastYear)
        {
        <li class="toggle-trigger">
        @year
        </li>
        }
        if (year != lastYear || month > lastMonth)
        {
        <div class="toggle-box" style=""> 
          <li class="toggle-trigger">
              @e.CreateDate.ToString("MMM")
          </li>
            <div class="toggle-box" style="">
                @foreach( var node in articles.Where(x => x.CreateDate.Year == year && x.CreateDate.Month == month))
                {
                var title = node.GetPropertyValue<string>("copyHeader");
                <li>@title</li>
                }
            </div>  
         </div>
        }
        lastYear = year;
        lastMonth = month;
    }
    </ul>
    </div>

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