Accessing Hierarchical parent field

John Fu asked on September 22, 2015 04:49

I have a Hierarchical Viewer set up to display news content laid out by year -> months.

What I want to do is, in the Months links, I want to add a data attribute to include the year. So it transforms to something like <a data-date="2015 January">January

Which means, in my child transformation, I need to access the parent node's document name. I'm not having very much success in doing so. Can anyone help me with the transformation syntax?

Thanks.

hierarchical transformati v8.2

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Brenden Kehren answered on September 22, 2015 05:10

If you know where in the url string it is you can use a simple split method on the NodeAliasPath field like so:

Your url is /news/year/month/news-item

<a data-date='<%# Eval("NodeAliasPath").ToString().Split('/')[2] %>'>January</a>

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Jeroen Fürst answered on September 22, 2015 08:30

Sounds like you are overengineering this one :) why not simply use the newsreleasedate column with a to date string "YYYY"?

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John Fu answered on September 22, 2015 08:38

Because "News" was just an abstract example and not the page type I'm actually applying this to. But thanks anyways. :)

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