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Hi Lars

What do you get if you just print out the GetString("Item.ItemTypeName.Value") value?

What do you see if you add @TemplateTags() in the template to get a list of all the tags and their values?

And what do you get if you print out @loopname to the template?

I've had a similar problem last year and it turned out that if the template tag you want to access isn't spelled out explicitly in the template, Dynamicweb won't take it into account. I wanted to loop on tags called Image1 to 10. For my code to work I had to put a comment in my template with all the different names, so that Dynamicweb knows i'm supposed to use them here.

Don't know if this had changed since.

Hi Nicolai

I have simplified my code a bit, so now it looks like this:

var loopname = "Rulings";
foreach (var option in GetLoop("Item." + loopname + ".Options"))
{
       <text>In loop<br/></text>
}

Now when running this code there are no items in the loop. But if I add @TemplateTags() like this:

var loopname = "Rulings";
@TemplateTags()
foreach (var option in GetLoop("Item." + loopname + ".Options"))
{
       <text>In loop<br/></text>
}

the loop contains items. The same happens if the code looks like this:

var loopname = "Rulings";
//foreach (var option in GetLoop("Item.Rulings.Options"))
foreach (var option in GetLoop("Item." + loopname + ".Options"))
{
       <text>In loop<br/></text>
}

TemplateTags() output this:

Hi Nicolai

Ok it makes sence to save performance when the loop is not explicitly in the template. Good to know the reason why it teased me. But as Gaëtan mentioned if you just add a comment with GetLoop([loopname]) the rendering engine will render the loop values. That will be my work around, because I really want to have the loop name in a variable in order to have less code in my template.