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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 24, 2015 @ 13:50
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Configure MNTP using Xpath - Umbraco 7

    Hi guys

    I'm trying to configure a Multinode Tree Picker to only show certain folders from a content repository, which contains many different folders for different content elements.

    It's been quite a while since I wrote an xpath expression so I might be a bit rusty doing it.

    But I also have a feeling that something might be working dirrently under the hood than it used to do in the versions before 7.

    So I have this site structure

    Sites

    • Site
      • Homepage
        • Page
        • Page etc.
      • Content Repository
        • Folder 1
          • Subfolder 1
            • Element
            • Element
        • Folder 2
          • Subfolder 2
            • Element
            • Element
        • Folder 3
        • Folder 4
        • Folder 5

    Now I only want the content picker to display the contents of folder 1 and 2.

    My xpath looks like this 

    $current/ancestor-or-self::Sites/Site//*[self::Folder1Alias | self::Folder2Alias]

    In my picker view all I see is the "Subfolder 1" folder...

    How do I need to configure the xpath to have both "Subfolder 1" and "Subfolder 2" available?

    I hope the above illustration of my site structure makes sense :)

    Cheers, Jan

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  • Chriztian Steinmeier 2726 posts 8320 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    Oct 24, 2015 @ 14:55
    Chriztian Steinmeier
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    Aha!

    Replace the pipe in the predicate with an "or" - the pipe does concatenation which is not what you want in this case ;)

    /Chriztian

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 24, 2015 @ 15:34
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Hi Chriztian

    Thank you for the reply - However it does not change much ind the behavior. When I write

    $current/ancestor-or-self::Sites/Site//*[self::Folder1Alias or self::Folder2Alias]

    It seems to do the same thing - I only see folders from "Folder1Alias"...and it's actually not listing Folder 1 but the children og Folder 1...I'm a bit confused as to why...can't believe how rusty I have become :-/

    Cheers, Jan

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  • Chriztian Steinmeier 2726 posts 8320 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    Oct 24, 2015 @ 15:43
    Chriztian Steinmeier
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    ...and now I remember why I usually use nuPickers instead...

    MNTP only lets you choose a parent folder - not the actual doctypes... :-(

    So that's why you're only seeing the children of Folder1Alias - in both cases (| / or) it's either the only or the first node selected, so...

    /Chriztian

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 25, 2015 @ 07:56
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Aaah, ok - Well I better see if I can look into them nuPickers on the next project then :)...

    Thanks for helping out Chriztian.

    /Jan

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