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  • Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10059 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 11:42
    Ismail Mayat
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    VIrtual page A to Z

    Just need a bit of advice on best way to approach this particular problem. I am looking to create an A to Z. I have a main index page that lists out the A to Z of letters. Each letter has url /stations/A etc. The page /stations/A does not exist nor does a page for each letter of the alphabet.

    So what am looking a doing is when the letter is clicked you end up on the stations page but as part of the url has the letter i want to get that letter then list only stuff for that letter. What is the best way of achieving this in v7? Implement ContentFinder?

    Regards

    Ismail

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  • Dave Woestenborghs 3325 posts 11170 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 12:10
    Dave Woestenborghs
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    Hi Ismail,

    I would do this with a virtual node handler.

    Here is some more information about it :

    http://jamessouth.me/archive/fun-with-umbracovirtualnoderoutehandler/

    Dave

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  • Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10059 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 14:08
    Ismail Mayat
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    Dave,

    Ok got this working in a different way, I created a ContentFinder:

    public class StationsContentFinder : ContentFinderByNiceUrl
{
    public override bool TryFindContent(PublishedContentRequest request)
    {
        if (base.TryFindContent(request)) return true;

        var urlChunks = request.Uri.AbsolutePath.Split("/".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList();

        if (IsSingleLetter(urlChunks))
        {

            string stationsXpath = "//Stations";

            var stationsNode =  request.RoutingContext.UmbracoContext.ContentCache.GetByXPath(stationsUrl).FirstOrDefault();

            if (stationsNode == null) { return false; }

            request.PublishedContent = stationsNode;

            //the stations hijack will take over and test for the letter and get the list of stations

            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private static bool IsSingleLetter(List<string> urlChunks)
    {
        return urlChunks.Last().Length == 1 && Char.IsLetter(urlChunks.Last().ToCharArray()[0]);
    }
}

    That works.

    Regards

    Ismail

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  • Dave Woestenborghs 3325 posts 11170 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 14:12
    Dave Woestenborghs
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    That of course is also an option :-)

    Dave

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  • Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10059 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 14:33
    Ismail Mayat
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    The only issue i have is that is multilingual site atm its only in english but potentially i could end up returning more than one station node I need to figure out how to get current region id and use that as filter.

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    Ismail

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  • Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10059 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jan 06, 2016 @ 15:13
    Ismail Mayat
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    Ok so no i have

        const string StationsXPath = "//Stations[contains(@path,'{0}')]";

var rootId = request.UmbracoDomain.RootContentId; // multilingual site we need root 

string stationXPath = string.Format(StationsXPath, rootId);

var stationsNode =  request.RoutingContext.UmbracoContext.ContentCache.GetByXPath(stationXPath).FirstOrDefault();

    Which works woohoo!

    Ismail

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