[Solved]Access a Block Item from a View Component
# help-with-umbracom
MobyDog
05/03/2024, 4:05 PMI am trying to access a Block Item from a View Component but blocks keeps coming back empty. Am I on the wrong track entirely. I'm actually using uSkinned but I think their components are just essentially Block Items? Maybe it's different when accessing from a ViewComponent? Thanks
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public async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeAsync()
{
var umbracoContext = _umbracoContextAccessor.GetRequiredUmbracoContext();
//deleted for brevity
// Find the Services landing page
var servicesNodeId = 2039; // ID of the Services landing page
var servicesLandingPage = umbracoContext.Content.GetById(servicesNodeId);
if (servicesLandingPage != null)
{
var servicesChildren = servicesLandingPage.Descendants();
foreach (var servicePage in servicesChildren)
{
_logger.LogInformation("-- servicePage - {0}", servicePage.Name);
var blocks = servicePage.Value<IEnumerable<BlockListItem>>("CB_relatedPeopleStrip");
if (blocks != null)
{
foreach (var block in blocks)
{
var blockContent = block.Content;
var doctypeAlias = content.ContentType.Alias;
_logger.LogInformation(doctypeAlias);
}
}MobyDog
05/03/2024, 4:37 PMBasically, in the "Services" pages the client can add a component which is a mntp that selects a Person. Then on the Person pages they want to show which Services have picked those Persons. There is already a View Component in the Person pages that does it from the opposite direction, on the Person page they can pick a service, but they want it to work the other way too. Maybe I'm over-complicating, might be easier just to do it from Razor?
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Mike Chambers
05/04/2024, 10:08 AMlooks like it aught to work.. might help to strongly type things with modelbuilder?
ServicesChildren = servcicesLandingPage.Descendants<{ContentTypeOfServicePage}>();servicePage.CB_relatedPeopleStripcB_relatedPeopleStripCB_relatedPeopleStripm
MobyDog
05/04/2024, 12:07 PMThank you for having a look at this. I've just been having another look myself and I was one step removed. I should have been looking for "mainContent" first and then looping through the components that are in there. I am still a ways away but more on the right track now than I was, hopefully now it will be more successful. Unfortunately these pages were not created as a particular Document Type.
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foreach (var servicePage in servicesChildren)
{
_logger.LogInformation("-- servicePage - {0}", servicePage.Name);
var pageComponents = servicePage.Value<IEnumerable<BlockListItem>>("mainContent");
if (pageComponents != null && pageComponents.Where(x => !x.Settings.Value<bool>("hideFromWebsite")).Any())
{
foreach (var item in pageComponents.Where(x => !x.Settings.Value<bool>("hideFromWebsite")))
{
if (item?.Content != null && item.Content.ToString() == "Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.PublishedModels.Cb_relatedPeopleStrip")
{
_logger.LogInformation("-- content - {0}", item.Content);
}
}
}
}22 Views