Retrieve custom module title

Posted by Community Admin on 01-Jul-2016 00:00

We have a module called blog categories built using the module builder. Using the code provided by the module builder i am able to retrieve all the blog categories. I can retrieve their ID, URLNAME etc. but there is no field called title in the returned object. there is also no GetValue() or similar method. Is there anyway i can retrieve the blog category title?

Posted by Community Admin on 01-Jul-2016 00:00

Hi Zubair. You need to add this namespace
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Model to using. And after that GetValue method will be availiable.

Let me know if you have any questions. If something not clear, please share piece of code, where you trying to receive title value

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Jul-2016 00:00

Hi,

That is correct, please observe following sample:

...

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Model;




DynamicModuleManager dynamicModuleManager = DynamicModuleManager.GetManager();

Type ArticlesType = TypeResolutionService.ResolveType("Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.Articles.Article");

var Article = dynamicModuleManager.GetDataItems(ArticlesType).Where(a => a.Status == Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model.ContentLifecycleStatus.Live).FirstOrDefault();

//Get dynamic module item fields

var ArticleImage = Article.GetRelatedItems<Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image>("ArticleImage").FirstOrDefault();

var ArticleTitle = Article.GetValue("Title").ToString();

imageUrl = ArticleImage.MediaUrl;

Regards,
Dimitri Cools
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 04-Jul-2016 00:00

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately the above solutions did not work. When i try the sample code suggested by Dimitri , I get the error Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.Model.DynamicContent does not contain a definition for GetRelatedItems .

If it helps I am using sitefinity 7.2. Initially i was using the following code to get all the blog categories:

public IQueryable<DynamicContent> RetrieveCollectionOfCategories()

// Set the provider name for the DynamicModuleManager here. All available providers are listed in

// Administration -> Settings -> Advanced -> DynamicModules -> Providers

var providerName = String.Empty;

DynamicModuleManager dynamicModuleManager = DynamicModuleManager.GetManager(providerName);

Type categoryType = TypeResolutionService.ResolveType("Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.BlogCategories.Category");

//CreateCategoryItem(dynamicModuleManager, categoryType);

// This is how we get the collection of Category items

var myCollection = dynamicModuleManager.GetDataItems(categoryType);

// At this point myCollection contains the items from type categoryType

return myCollection;

And then iterating through the IQuerable to find the parameters :

var CategoryList = RetrieveCollectionOfCategories().ToList();

foreach (var item in CategoryList)

// Can get URL successfully

string URL = item.UrlName;

//Trying to get Title

// string Title = item.Title;

Thanks,

Zubair

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Jul-2016 00:00

Hi,
The sample did use RelatedItems, which you most likely don't have.

However using

string Title = item.GetValue("Title").ToString();

in your sample works for me when test this (screenshot)
I hope the above information helps.

Regards,
Dimitri Cools
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 04-Jul-2016 00:00

Thanks Guys. Dimitri's solution works.

I forgot to add the provider name thats why it was not showing up in Intellisense.

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