while nested content is an option, it's still too much tied to that specific page you add the nested content property to imho (you'll most probably have to store it on the top level doc/node in the tree for easy retrieval from your ocde.

if you only need to list those items on other pages (ie, you don't need to display a single faq item as a "page"), i'd go with storing all of your items in a different "folder" somewhere in the tree (could also be root level) and always retrieve the items from there.

essentially, the output will be the same, but it's less tied to a specific page and separates the concerns.

my 0.02$

--Dirk

I am struggling a bit with this one (it's all still very new to me).

I can't find details of the overloads, so tried:

var items = Model.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("myFAQs", true);

and

var items = Model.AncestorOrSelf().GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("myFAQs");

but still get a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." when used on any page other than the Contact-Us page (where the Nested Content is)

I figured that from a users' perspective, it would make sense to reside there, as the FAQ is always shown on the Contact-Us page (but never on the homepage, so they wouldn't naturally think to look there to update it).

I would quite like to figure-out how to achieve this with Nested Content (as I've got this far, and it's something I'd possibly need to achieve in the future - not just with FAQs).

I am struggling with how to do the foreach loop inside the partial view though. The code I mention above only works if used on the Contact page - I can't find a way of specifying a different 'source' page (by ID or whatever).

Any tips would be appreciated - I'm so close!

SteveMid,

If you want to go the nested content route (which is fine), i'd suggest you explain your content structure and some code snippets you've got so far, makes it easier to grasp the context (for us people trying to help you) and provide more specific detailed info on how to accomplish what you want...

--Dirk

OK, so to clarify... I'm trying to add a FAQ section to a site that is to appear on two or more pages (currently the 'contact us' page and the 'search results' page)

Both pages are directly under the Homepage

I used Nested Content to allow a FAQ document type (just question and answer) to be repeated, and added this to the Contact Us page, for useability reasons.

I wrote a partial view that displays the FAQs, which works fine on the Contact Us page, but not on the Search Results page. I think this is because it can't retrieve the content, as the script only looks for the values in Ancestor or Self, and Contact Us is neither - it's a sibling I guess. I was thinking maybe there was a way to hard-code the Contact Us page ID to the script so it knew where to look for the FAQs

I have made an Imgur gallery of screenshots to help clarify http://imgur.com/a/jLK2n

As I mentioned, I'm still quite new to this Umbraco / C# / MVC lark, so please forgive any inaccuracies in my description or my method, and if you need any further information, please let me know.

Thanks once again for the help.

Thanks for the swift response Dirk,

I gave that a shot, but am receiving the following error:

Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'Content' and no extension method 'Content' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I currently have two @inherits at the top of the page to get it to work previously, but I think I read that there should only be one? (I tried with just each)

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage

I copied the script into a Partial View Macro file and inserted that into the two page templates.

The pages render without the big yellow screen of death, but where the macro content should appear, there is the following error message:

Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/New ShowFAQ.cshtml)

..which isn't so useful when it comes to debugging!

To better troubleshoot macros, use this setting in ~/Config/umbracoSettings.config:

<MacroErrors>throw</MacroErrors>

You'll get a normal exception at that point.

Thanks Nicholas (I'm learning lots about Umbraco from this!)

The problem with the macro appears to be the foreach loop

 CS1579: foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' because 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'

Can you show the code of your partial view macro file?

--Dirk

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage


<div class="panel-group" id="accordion">


@{

            //var umbracoPageId = 1057;

            var items = Model.Content.Site().Children.First(x => x.IsDocumentType("ContactPage"));
            var counter = 0;



    foreach(var item in items)
    {

<div class="panel panel-default">
    <div class="panel-heading">
      <h4 class="panel-title">
        <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapse@(counter)">
            @item.GetPropertyValue("question")
        </a>
      </h4>
    </div>
    <div id="collapse@(counter)" class="panel-collapse collapse">
      <div class="panel-body">
        @Umbraco.Field(item, "answer")
    </div>
        </div>
      </div>        

    counter++;
    }


}

</div>

Ok, here we go

Must change Model.Content() with CurrentPage

As we do .First(), it will only return the first element, while you're trying to iterate afterwards, so this one is the culprit at the moment

var item = CurrentPage.Site().Children.First(x => x.IsDocumentType("ContactPage")

item will now be the "Contact us" page, so from there, you have to take the nested property value

var nestedContent = item.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("propertyAlias");

Change "propertyAlias" with the alias of your nested content property defined on your "ContactPage" documentType

and from there, you should be able to do the loop

foreach(var content in nestedContent) {...}

--Dirk

I gave that a go. It took me a little bit of head-scratching because there was a missing bracket but I think I interpreted your suggestion correctly and gave it a go, but now we get:

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. 

Compiler Error Message: CS1977: Cannot use a lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type

Source Error:


Line 3:  <div class="panel-group" id="accordion">
Line 4:  @{
Line 5:              var item = CurrentPage.Site().Children.First(x => x.IsDocumentType("ContactPage"));
Line 6:              
Line 7:              var nestedContent = item.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("myFAQs");

(it's line 5 that is highlighted in red on the error page)

Hi Dirk,

I followed the above, and yes... that partial view macro worked fine on the homepage.

Did you spot my feedback above that (now) shows the error thrown?