..and several other things but I either get null exception errors, model errors or blanks. I cannot get the article text to display. It's plain text, entered through the TinyMCE WYSIWYG control. It's published (id=1119) and only has a text entry control. I just want to retrieve it from the database and display as text.
Thank you for the reply, albeit relatively unhelpful.
Fully agree on Paul's YT videos! Amazing content and a must for anyone just starting out. Been a subscriber of his for years.
My problem ended up being a database error. The content ID I was after (1119) was actually 1118 on my test rig. How my live and test machines have gotten out of sync is a mystery, quickly solved by a full restore. I figured this out by directly querying the database "cmsContentXml" table to just get the content I wanted.
Once I figured this out using the following worked a treat:
<p>
@{ var page = Umbraco.Content(1118); }
@page.ContentBody
</p>
The property of the content I need is named "ContentBody".
As for UmbracoTV, paying for (what turned out to be) 2 lines of code would have really made me mad! Anyway, problem solved.
Retreive content from database
I'm having trouble getting any method of retrieving content from the database to work.
I have a view, it's blank, no model. I want to display the "siteContent" property from the Content tab of a content article on this view.
I've tried...
var umbHelper = new Umbraco.Web.UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
var mData = umbHelper.Content(1119);
...and...
IPublishedContent content = UmbracoHelper.TypedContent(1119);
..and several other things but I either get null exception errors, model errors or blanks. I cannot get the article text to display. It's plain text, entered through the TinyMCE WYSIWYG control. It's published (id=1119) and only has a text entry control. I just want to retrieve it from the database and display as text.
Any idea's?
Thanks!
Hi,
Seeing your question it seems to me you are new to Umbraco.
So it would be best to start with a simple tutorial like this one :
https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Tutorials/Creating-Basic-Site/
You can also watch the video's created by Paul Seal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWy2HlRDCRM&list=PL90L_HquhD--OWQNLyO1-KRxVDd0NPBfZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttWuV88OJfM&list=PL90LHquhD-Wu55PJ9N8mZ6Lh5Rhy0X6
Or take some of the free video's on Umbraco.tv
https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/
Dave
Thank you for the reply, albeit relatively unhelpful.
Fully agree on Paul's YT videos! Amazing content and a must for anyone just starting out. Been a subscriber of his for years.
My problem ended up being a database error. The content ID I was after (1119) was actually 1118 on my test rig. How my live and test machines have gotten out of sync is a mystery, quickly solved by a full restore. I figured this out by directly querying the database "cmsContentXml" table to just get the content I wanted.
Once I figured this out using the following worked a treat:
The property of the content I need is named "ContentBody".
As for UmbracoTV, paying for (what turned out to be) 2 lines of code would have really made me mad! Anyway, problem solved.
Thanks!
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