Access Meta data of News Items

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:12:55

Hi there,

I am using the following code to query news items:

var allNews = Dynamicweb.NewsV2.NewsItem.GetAllNewsValidAndActiveAndNotArchive();

This returns a collection of NewItem instances. But how do I access the meta data of the news item?

Imar

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:17:35

Dynamicweb.Metadata.Common.GetNewsMetaData(_item.ID, "Title")

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:34:49

Hmmm, this smells like a N+1 problem, where I have 89 database calls for 88 news items, no?

I am creating my own News Url provider because the existing one seems broken and I would like to use the news meta title as the URL. Is this this the right approach to implement this?

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:42:53

Yes - it is. Just checked...

The news module also have a field for the URL - that should be used if there, otherwise name of Newsitem.

You can download our source for the URLProvider here: http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/Downloads/Source-code.aspx

And it is not broken. The link is just not working. But &NewsId=XX just have to be the first parameter in the link.

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:55:39

And it is not broken.

Ah, that's good news. But does that mean that  is broken then? I don't build up the URL myself, but retrieve it from this tag....

And to make things more confusing: even when I build up my own link it doesn't seem to work:

<a href="Default.aspx?ID=&NewsId=<=!--@News:ID-->">....</a>

I also can't seem to access the PID tag here, so it looks like I *have* to use News:Href.

The news module also have a field for the URL

Do I have to do something for this field to show up? Can't find it when editing a news item.....

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 12/05/2011 16:25:41

I have it working here:
http://www.dynamicweb-cms.com/top-navigation/news.aspx

And it is also working on my local installation. And you do not need the NewsID first as I said, so this works as well:
<a id="news" href="">() </a>

So something else must be wrong... Link?

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 12/05/2011 17:09:33

No link yet. It's on development only, and the test environment hasn't been updated to DW 7.2 yet. Will do that ASAP and post a link here.

In the mean time, did you find the URL field on the news item? Or is that DW 8?

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 13/05/2011 09:10:08

Oh - yes DW 8 again... Sorry.

Will have to start checking things on 7.2 branch!

But - I still have the news links working on a 7.2...

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 13/05/2011 09:21:18

I updated the site last night to the latest version of DW. You can find it here: http://test.nl.sapph.mediaweb.nl/ and the news page here: http://test.nl.sapph.mediaweb.nl/nieuws.aspx (which is a redirect from /Content/Nieuws in the backend).

The current SEO URLs are created with a custom URL Provider. Still needs some work as I need to strip odd characters from the URL. I just couldn't make it work with the default URL Provider and standards tags, but obviously I would like to....

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 13/05/2011 09:26:56

Ah - thanks.

Problem was that News (the old version) was not installed.

Installed it and now it should work. Will check the bug.

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 13/05/2011 09:40:08

Cool. Thanks!

Imar

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