I am trying to install the Nested Content Property Editor in a U12 site (which was previously upgraded from v6 or 7, c#) - Nuget cannot install it due to a lucene dependancy, I see now that the github version is also archived, which leads me to believe this is the error. How can I install the property as it's not available in my U12 installation?
#Cannot install Nested Content Editor in v12 (upgraded from 7)
ornate solstice
gentle needle
from a post on the forums
Nested Content has been deprecated in Umbraco 11. You can still use it though, but you need to enable deprecated property editors in config.
You really shouldn't though. You can use Block List instead - Nested Content is going to be removed from Umbraco in version 13 (ETA Q4 2023).
ornate solstice
Thank you, so just to confirm, what I am after here is to create a document type for a timeline (so I need to give a year, name,text), but want the content editor to "add more" - I will in the template take the data (object / array) and then dynamically build the timeline
will this be suffice or is there possibly another / better solution?
I have already created the documenttype with the various fields, I just dont know how to set it to allow for multiple items in the same document type if that makes sense?
gentle needle
You should be able to use a blocklist I think for this
Create an element doc type that has your year/name/text fields, then create a blocklist data type which uses the element as it's only block. Then add your blocklist to the document template
ornate solstice
I feel like a noob here, but I am not able to get access to the timelineItems in my razor code, if I watch node, I can see a "TimelineItems" with 2, I am assigning it using var timelineItems = node.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("TimelineItems");
but timelineItems remains null
I am not sure how to access the content of TimeLineItems, I am getting contents of node using var node = Umbraco.Content(nodeId);
gentle needle
not sure off the top of my head, but should probably be a BlockListItem, will need to dig out some code to check
ornate solstice
I think I have it, took a while but man case sensitivity 😄
I should stop looking at the watch and rather the alias created 😄
snow kettle
Use blocklist and don't use nested content
snow kettle
I feel like a noob here, but I am not able to get access to the timelineItems in...
You probably want to look at how to use BlockListItem in .NET. They way you are doing it, is making life very hard for yourself. In Razor, you will probably need to debug, look at the type and cast to that type so it maps properly 🙂
turbid dune
I think I have it, took a while but man case sensitivity 😄
Use modelsBuilder for stronly typed access to those props.. to avoid you struggles with caseSensitivity/typos etc..