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  • Josh Bula 13 posts 75 karma points
    Apr 18, 2017 @ 17:44
    Josh Bula
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    Umbraco 7.6 RC Related Links - 'Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLink' does not contain a definition for 'link' or for 'isInternal'

    I have a list of document types called newsItems I'm trying to display in a macro partial. They have a relatedLinks data type. I'm trying to display a simple list of the related links for each of the newsItems queried. I have successfully done this using similar code in previous versions of Umbraco but for some reason it's not working in a new site I'm developing using 7.6.

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
    
    @{
        var query = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Where("Visible && DocumentTypeAlias == @0", "newsItem").OrderBy("sortOrder desc");
    
        foreach (var page in query)
        {
            <h1>@page.Headline</h1>
            <p>@page.body</p>
    
    
            if (page.HasValue("relatedLinks") && page.relatedLinks.ToString().Length > 2)
            {
                foreach (var item in page.relatedLinks)
                {
                    var linkUrl = (bool)item.isInternal ? Umbraco.NiceUrl(item.Value<int>("internal")) : item.link;
                    var linkTarget = (bool)item.newWindow ? "_blank" : null;
                    <p><a href="@linkUrl" target="@linkTarget">@item.caption</a></p>
                }
            }
        }
    }
    

    This line is trowing the error 'Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLink' does not contain a definition for 'isInternal'

    var linkUrl = (bool)item.isInternal ? Umbraco.NiceUrl(item.Value<int>("internal")) : item.link;
    

    If I take out the contitional and just do var linkUrl = item.link it says it doesn't containg a definition for 'link'

    Have I overlooked something? or is there a different recommended method of doing something in 7.6?

  • Josh Bula 13 posts 75 karma points
    Apr 18, 2017 @ 18:14
    Josh Bula
    0

    If I switch from Dynamic to Typed, I get a completely different problem that I posted about here.

  • Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    Apr 19, 2017 @ 06:17
    Dave Woestenborghs
    102

    Hi Josh,

    I guess you started this site on v7.6. In this version Umbraco switched to the "UDI" format for storing links. For content these start with "umb://document/" and for media with "umb://media"

    From your code I see you are trying to parse the json your self. But in v7.6 this wonderful package (https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-core-property-value-converters/) by Jeavon Leopold got integrated in the core.

    So you can do this in your view : var relatedLinks = Model.GetPropertyValue

    Also I see you are using the dynamic syntax in your views. I would advise you to use the strongly typed version : http://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2015/strongly-typed-vs-dynamic-content-access/

    Since you are using v7.6 the modelsbuilder is activated by default and you can use strongly typed models in your view. You can read some more about the modelsbuilder here : http://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2016/getting-started-with-modelsbuilder/

    Dave

  • Josh Bula 13 posts 75 karma points
    Apr 19, 2017 @ 13:43
    Josh Bula
    0

    Thanks Dave, I was able to get it working that way. The links you provided were very helpful.

    Now that I have that relatedLinks object, I see that it has the properties Caption, NewWindow, IsInternal, Type, and Link, and I was able to successfully use those within a foreach loop.

    Is there any documentation somewhere that shows other ways to work with these types of objects? Specifically, I'm trying to get a count of the related links, and display only the first link. I have tried options typical of lists or IENumerables such as relatedLinks.Count() and relatedLinks[0] and relatedLinks.Any() and just get errors saying Umbraco.Web.Models.RelatedLinks does not contain those definitions.

    Thanks!

  • Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    Apr 19, 2017 @ 13:49
    Dave Woestenborghs
    0

    Hi Josh,

    This is the source code for the RelatedLinks object : https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/dev-v7.6/src/Umbraco.Web/Models/RelatedLinks.cs

    As you can see it implements/inherits IEnumerable<RelatedLink>

    Maybe adding the following using statement to your view will solve the issue:

    using System.Linq
    

    Don't forget the post as a solution. This is new in 7.6 a lot of people will run into this issue and it's easier for them to find the solution.

    Dave

  • Josh Bula 13 posts 75 karma points
    Apr 19, 2017 @ 14:33
    Josh Bula
    1

    Thanks! I got it working by adding these using statements:

    @using System.Linq;
    @using Umbraco.Web.Models;
    

    and changing

     var links = page.GetPropertyValue("relatedLinks");
    

    to this:

     IEnumerable<RelatedLink> links = page.GetPropertyValue("relatedLinks");
    

    Thanks again for your help! ...Josh

  • Sigurd Aabøe-Sagen 12 posts 122 karma points
    May 09, 2017 @ 10:36
    Sigurd Aabøe-Sagen
    0

    This should be marked as a solution.

  • Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib
    May 09, 2017 @ 10:38
    Dave Woestenborghs
    0

    It already is.

    Dave

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