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Hi Adrian,

You can use Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.Common.Context.CartContext to get the current order context.

- Jeppe

Hi Jeppe,

Thank you very much for the answer.

What about the content of a specific Context?

To put it into perspective, I have one order context where I add a specific type of products.

I need to be able to show in the minicart if I have products in either the new CartContext or the default cart context.

Right now, I can only access the current cart using Model.Cart or your suggestion.

How do I access a specific Context?

Thank you,
Adrian 

There isn't really a good way to do that. I can only think of one way: 

• Save a backup of the current CartContext
• Get all contexts (OrderContext.GetOrderContexts())
• Loop through them and set Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.Common.Context.CartContext for each
• After setting the context, call Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.Common.Context.Cart to get the cart for that context
• After looping, set the order context back to the backup

As you can see, this is very hacky, so I would not recommend it. However, I can't really see any other way of doing it with the current API. Also, this will give you the Cart (Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.Orders.Order) not the CartViewModel.

- Jeppe

Hi Jeppe,

Thank you very much.

This seems indeed hacky.

I will try the handlebars approach in this case. It will require some more development than what I was expecting but it seems the only way for now.

Maybe it would worth including a friendlier way of accessing the OrderContext in the upcoming versions.

Thank you very much for all your suggestions, they were very useful.

Thank you,

Adrian