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Hi Adrian,

If you need to render the items on a page I would suggest using the ItemPublisher app or the RenderItem / RenderItemList template methods.

If you are not in the context of a page view then you can use something like this...

var itemType = Dynamicweb.Content.Items.ItemManager.Metadata.GetItemType("News");
 
if (itemType != null)
{
    var areaId = 1;
    var query = new Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Queries.Query() { Amount = 100 };
    var includeInheritedItems = false;
    var includeParagraphItems = false;
    var checkPermissions = true;
 
    IEnumerable<Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item> items = null;
 
    using (var repository = Dynamicweb.Content.Items.ItemManager.Storage.Open(itemType))
    {
        items = repository.SelectByAreaId(areaId, query, includeParagraphItems, checkPermissions, includeInheritedItems);
    }
 
    if (items != null)
    {
        foreach (var item in items)
        {
            // do something
        }
    }
}

The code is for DW9, but it should be similar for DW8.

Best regards,
Morten

Hi Morten,

In my situation, the GetItemType is just for rendering all values available in a field on the item with the purpose of using them as filters.

I am basically using:

Dynamicweb.Content.Items.ItemManager.Metadata.GetItemType("News").Fields

I cannot use the QueryPublisher functionality, therefore I have to rely on alternate methods.

The current one is rendering the values but the values are retrived for the whole set of the Items not just the subset for the current area. This means that the filter values will render 0 results. And I wanted to avoid that.

Thank you very much for the clarification. I will give it a try.

Thank you,
Adrian