Hi Jonok

What Umbraco version are you using? Can you show all the code you have?

Thanks,

Alex

Hi Alex, I'm using version 8.0.1, here is the surface controller code. I've got lots of 'using' statements as I can't seem to use the 'IPublishedContent' type, and was trying a few things.

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Web;
    using System.Web.Mvc;
    using System.Net;
    using Umbraco;
    using Umbraco.Core;
    using Umbraco.Core.Models;
    using Umbraco.Core.Services;
    using Umbraco.Web;
    using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
    using Umbraco.Web.Models;

    namespace MyNamespace.Controllers
    {
        public class MoreBlocksController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
        {
            public ActionResult LoadMoreBlocks(int currentCount,  int moreCount)
            {

                //get nested content property node from current page
                var block = CurrentPage.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("blocks").Where("Visible").Skip(currentCount).Take(1);

                 //or try to get it from content?? doesn't work either
                IPublishedContent content = Umbraco.Content(1234);
                block = content.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("blocks").Where("Visible").Skip(currentCount).Take(1);

                return PartialView("Blocks/Image List Block", block, new ViewDataDictionary(this.ViewData) {
                    { "blockCount", moreCount }
                });
            }
        }
    }

Hi jonok, I saw you question and I made an example. I manage to get the property values from textstring in a nested content. I don't know how this will work with media/member/content pickers. Hope you can make a start from that.

If someone has a better solution would be nice to share.

using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace Umbraco_8_tests.Controllers
{
    public class TestingController : SurfaceController
    {
        public const string PARTIAL_VIEW_FOLDER = "~/Views/Partials/";

    public ActionResult TestSurfaceController()
    {
        return PartialView(PARTIAL_VIEW_FOLDER + "_TestSurfaceController.cshtml");
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult testingSC()
    {
        dynamic nestedContent = Umbraco.Content(CurrentPage.Id).GetProperty("nc").GetValue();

        foreach (var item in nestedContent)
        {
            System.Reflection.PropertyInfo pi = item.GetType().GetProperty("TextNC");
            string itemValue = (string)(pi.GetValue(item, null));
        }
        return View();
    }
}
}

If I understand right, you need a form to post to the controller the pageId so you can access any node no matter the page you are.

Anyway generally speaking you can access the nodes as IPublishedContent on a Surface controller

All those are working

        var homePage = Umbraco.Content(CurrentPage.Id);

        var textString = homePage.Value("text");

        var rte = homePage.Value("rte");

        var image = homePage.Value<IPublishedContent>("image").Url;

I couldn't get this one to work

        var nestedContent= homePage.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("nestedContent");

I have been testing out V8 and here is an example of how I get the nested content to work.

1) I'm using modelbuilder so in my view I have:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<Web.Model.Helper.Contact>

2) I'm not sure whether you are posting the page to the SurfaceController or whether it's on pageload, if posting add the following to a hidden field.

var id = Model.NestedTest.ToList();

3) SufaceController

public ActionResult NestedContent(IEnumerable<IPublishedElement> id)
        {

var publishedElements = id.ToList();
            var components = publishedElements.ToList();

                foreach (var data in components)
                {
                    var testOuter = data.Value<HtmlString>("bodyText");

                    if (data.ContentType.Alias == "nestedThreeDoctype")
                    {
                        foreach (var item in data.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedElement>>("nCThree"))
                        {
                            var testInner = item.Value<IHtmlString>("bodyText");
                        }
                    }
                }



            return null;
        }

I have attached an image to show my backoffice layout, this is just me messing around with V8 but it should give you an idea of how to do what you want

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