How to get categories and tags from shared content block

Hello,

Wondering if you can help me by showing me how I can get the categories and tags associated with a shared content item.

At the moment I am getting a list of controls from the placeholder of a specific page.
var pageManager = PageManager.GetManager();
var page = pageManager.GetPageNodes().Where(p => p.Title == pageTitle).SingleOrDefault();
var controls = page.Page.Controls.Where(c => c.PlaceHolder == placeHolder).ToList<ControlData>();

How do I get the categories and tags of a specific control that will be a shared content block?

Thanks in advance.

R

Hi,

To get the categories of an item, you need to use:

  Thanks so much Stefani, very helpful. This is how I get the details of it, might be useful for someone else.

var categories = item.GetValue<TrackedList<Guid>>("Category");
//get a category ID from the list.
  var catID = categories.FirstOrDefault();
  Guid categoryID = new Guid(catID.ToString());
  var taxonManager = TaxonomyManager.GetManager();
  IList<HierarchicalTaxon> subCategories = taxonManager.GetTaxa<HierarchicalTaxon>().Where(t => t.Id == categoryID).ToList();

I actually do this within a loop as I go over my items:

List<Category> catList = new List<Category>();
                foreach (var i in subCategories)
                
                    Category category = new Category();
                    category.title = i.Name;
                    category.parent = i.Parent.Name;
                    catList.Add(category);
                

Hello Ricardo,

I am glad to hear that you managed to get the categories. Thank you for sharing your solution.

Regards,
Stefani Tacheva
Telerik