Finding all pages that contain a reference to a given page in a c

Finding all pages that contain a reference to a given page in a contentarea

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I have a page that has a contentarea that allows references to other pages. Specifically, I have a ClinicPage which has a ContentArea to hold ProviderPages, for each provider in the clinic. Providers can be in multiple clinics.

I'd rather not have to maintain this relationship in both directions by having a ContentArea on ProviderPage to hold the clinics, but I'd like the provider page to link to each clinic the provider is a member of.

How do I query EPiServer to find every clinic page whose contentarea holds a reference to the provider page?

#80957

Feb 05, 2014 21:42

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If I understand your request correctly, you could check my blog for inspiration.

#80959

Feb 05, 2014 23:55

Johan Björnfot

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Note that The IContentRepository.GetReferenceInformationForContent method Alf referres to will not only capture references from ContentAreas, it will also capture references from e.g. XhtmlStrings, Url, ContentReference, ArchiveLink, ShortcutLink properties.

You could use EPiServer.DataAbstraction.ContentSoftLinkRepository.Load instead, that will limit the checks to custom properties (metadata properties are excluded). It will however also check custom XhtmlStrings, Url, ContentReference properties.

#80961

Feb 06, 2014 8:50

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Cool Johan, thanks for the update. I'd better check on that and update the post.

What do you mean when you say metadata properties?

#80962

Feb 06, 2014 8:52

Johan Björnfot

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With metadata properties I mean all properties that you have not explicitly added to your model classes. That is properties inherited from baseclasses or interfaces (like, ContentLink, ParentLink, ContentTypeID, Language etc)

#80963

Feb 06, 2014 8:54

Johan Björnfot

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EPiServer.DataAbstraction.ContentSoftLinkRepository.Load has an overloaded method that takes a boolean parameter reversed. This can be used so you can either get "all content items that a specific content item references" or the other way around "all content items that references this specific content item"

#80965

Feb 06, 2014 8:58