Get Page Menu Type Document Path Using Node ID Macro

Amy Patterson asked on February 18, 2022 00:57

There are times I set a repeater's content path to a child item or Page Menu item that exists on a different Page (Menu item) anywhere in the CMSTree, and all works well until a content editor decides to change the name of the page, which makes all the repeaters stop working until I check the page out and repoint the path to the renamed page. This can take up a lot of our time.

Since Node id never changes, is there a macro that can use just the Node id for a page type and return the Document Path, this way the repeater will get the content path and continue working no matter what the page name would be.

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Juraj Ondrus answered on February 18, 2022 13:10

I would recommend using GUID as the IDs can change. You can use the Documents macro method to get the node object. For example:

{% Documents[Documents.Where("NodeGUID = 'yourNodeGUID").FirstItem.NodeAliasPath].NodeAliasPath#%}

and you can replace the last NodeAliasPath with basically any node object field name.

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Amy Patterson answered on February 18, 2022 14:32

Juraj, The Macro works in the system application benchmark, but when I place in a repeater content path , it does not execute the macro on page load, is it possible to use a macro for a content path? Does it work for you?

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Amy Patterson answered on February 18, 2022 15:18

I just now got it to work, I was missing the /% at the end of the macro.

For anyone else trying to accomplish setting the path to a page using a page guid in a repeater webpart, or any web part that has a place to set a content path, it must end with /%

{% Documents[Documents.Where("NodeGUID = 'yourNodeGUID").FirstItem.NodeAliasPath].NodeAliasPath#%}/%

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