Retrieving all content item types based on a tag selection - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 30-Apr-2014 00:00

I need to retrieve all the content item types (blog, news, event, custom ones, etc.) based on a tag: I have followed the code that Ivan suggested on this thread: www.sitefinity.com/.../sitefinity-4-0-taxonomy-categorization , but I always received 0 result. I have made sure that there are some blog posts and news items that are tagged by the right tag name. Below are the code that I use, some guidance to find out why it is not returning any result is appreciated

public ActionResult Index()

var model = new AssociatedInsightsModel();

var taxonomyManager = TaxonomyManager.GetManager();

var taxon = taxonomyManager.GetTaxa<FlatTaxon>().FirstOrDefault(t => t.Title.ToUpper() == "TEST");

string itemTypeName = "Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model.ContentItem";

Type itemType = TypeResolutionService.ResolveType(itemTypeName);

var manager = ManagerBase.GetMappedManager(itemType, "");

ContentDataProviderBase contentProvider = manager.Provider as ContentDataProviderBase;

var items = GetItems(taxon, contentProvider, itemType);

return View("Default", model);

private TaxonomyPropertyDescriptor GetPropertyDescriptor(Type itemType, ITaxon taxon)

return TaxonomyManager.GetPropertyDescriptor(itemType, taxon);

private IEnumerable GetItems(ITaxon taxon, ContentDataProviderBase contentProvider, Type itemType)

TaxonomyPropertyDescriptor prop = GetPropertyDescriptor(itemType, taxon);

int? totalCount = 0;

var items = contentProvider.GetItemsByTaxon(taxon.Id, prop.MetaField.IsSingleTaxon, prop.Name, itemType, string.Empty, string.Empty, 0, 100, ref totalCount);

return items;

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