I have a document type which contains related links in Umbraco 7.2.8
I want to display it in a view but HasValue comes as false and GetPropertyValue("relatedLinks") come sempty as well.
So I took a look at the node in the database and the property "relatedLinks" is written as CData, not JSON:
<relatedLinks><![CDATA[[
{
"caption": "Some caption",
"link": 1163,
"newWindow": false,
"internal": 1163,
"edit": false,
"isInternal": true,
"internalName": "Caption",
"type": "internal",
"title": "Link Title"
}
]]]></relatedLinks>
As far as I know in this umbraco version it should be written as JSON (eg. as per example here https://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/razor/54450-Related-Links-Razor-Macro-Umbraco-7) and then easy to display on a view using Razor.
Not sure how I am supposed to use CDATA snippet in Razor?
Or how to force the cms to write it as JSON?
Have you tried using it as a JArray?
@using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq
@{
if (Model.Content.HasValue("relatedLinks") && Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<string>("relatedLinks").Length > 2)
{
<ul>
@foreach (var item in Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<JArray>("relatedLinks"))
{
var linkUrl = (item.Value<bool>("isInternal")) ? Umbraco.NiceUrl(item.Value<int>("internal")) : item.Value<string>("link");
var linkTarget = item.Value<bool>("newWindow") ? "_blank" : null;
<li><a href="@linkUrl" target="@linkTarget">@(item.Value<string>("caption"))</a></li>
}
</ul>
}
}