Display various language versions of a page in a NewsList

Victor Dollero

Vote:

Hello, I would like to use the NewsList control where each of the Items iterated will display the language versions available for each of the items. It will look something like this. ---------------------------------------------- PageName Also available in: English French Spanish ---------------------------------------------- PageName Also available in: English French Spanish ---------------------------------------------- PageName Also available in: English French Spanish ---------------------------------------------- This is a similar request as the one in: http://www.episerver.com/en/EPiServer_Knowledge_Center/Developer-Forum2/EPiServer-Developer-Forums-/1805/14366/ I've tried the following but it's not working: ASPX



    
    
    
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            title="<%#container.previewtext%>">
            <%#container.currentpage.pagename%>
        
        
        
            
                <%#languageversion(container.currentpage)%>
                
                
                    
                        <%--><%=stravailable %>--%>
                        Also available in:
                    
                    
                        <%#container.currentpage.pagename %>
                        <%--><%# getlanguagedisplayname(container.currentpage.languagebranch) %>--%>


        public PageDataCollection pagesWithPdfLinks = new PageDataCollection();
        public PageDataCollection langVersions;

        public string LanguageVersion(PageData pd)
        {
            string _languageName;
            // Only brain compiled - put it into PageLoad
            langVersions = Global.EPDataFactory.GetLanguageBranches(pd.PageLink);

            foreach (PageData page in langVersions)
            {
                pagesWithPdfLinks.Add(page);

            }
        
                lstPdfLinks.DataSource = pagesWithPdfLinks;
                lstPdfLinks.DataBind();

            return pd.PageName;


        }

#13288

Nov 29, 2007 16:55

Steve Celius

Vote:

Hi, this is almost the same solution as the other one, just a few subtle differences. First the list. Make sure you databind this in your page load.



    
        
            <%#Container.CurrentPage.PageName%>
        
        <%-- The Trick is to feed this list with the correct PageDataCollection --%>
        
            
              
                Also available in: 
            
            
              
                <%# GetLanguageDisplayName(Container.CurrentPage.LanguageBranch) %>

The inner list will query for it's own page data collection based on the current page. But to get this list, we create a method in the code behind file to gather the data. You already have the GetLanguageDisplayName() method, so the only additional one you need is this:


// This is practically the same code as in the previous thread, but
// put into its own method so we can reuse it.
public PageDataCollection GetLanguageVersions(PageData currentPage)
{
  PageDataCollection langVersions = Global.EPDataFactory.GetLanguageBranches(currentPage.PageLink);
  PageDataCollection pagesWithPdfLinks = new PageDataCollection();
  foreach (PageData page in langVersions)
  {
    // Check that it is not the same lang as the currently loaded one
    // Also check that the page has a value for the pdf link
    if (currentPage.LanguageBranch != page.LanguageBranch &&
        page["varFilePath"] != null)
    {
      // We have a language version of the page
      pagesWithPdfLinks.Add(page);
    }
  }
  // That's it - return it
  return pagesWithPdfLinks;
}

#15574

Nov 29, 2007 22:52

Victor Dollero

Vote:

Thank you so much Steve. You're great!

#15575

Nov 30, 2007 9:29