Resolve Macro within Transformations

John Fu asked on December 10, 2014 14:50

I'm trying to resolve a macro inside a transformation but it doesn't seem to work. Basically, I'm trying to get at the current transforming node's parent's DrawerName field. Any ideas?

<dd class="drawerMenu" 
data-menu="<%# CMS.MacroEngine.MacroResolver.GetInstance().ResolveMacros("{% DocumentContext.CurrentDocumentParent.DrawerName %}") %>-<%# Eval("DrawerName") %>">
  <span class="drawerMenu-title">
    <span class="drawerMenu-title--text"><%# Eval("DrawerName") %></span>
    <span class="drawerMenu-arrow fa"></span>
  </span>
</dd>

transformation macro

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Brenden Kehren answered on December 10, 2014 15:15

You can use <%# CurrentDocument.Parent.GetValue("DrawerName") %> to get the document you are navigating to parent info. Otherwise you can use (I believe this is correct syntax) <%# Documents[Eval("NodeAliasPath")].Parent.GetValue("DrawerName") %> to get the value of the document being rendered.

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John Fu answered on December 10, 2014 15:21

Hi Brenden,

Neither of them worked.
The 1st method returned Object refernce not set to an instance of an object. The 2nd method returned an error saying "Documents" does not exist in the current context.

Any ideas?

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John Fu answered on December 10, 2014 15:22

I'm using Kentico 8 by the way.

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John Fu answered on December 10, 2014 15:59

Worked it out. A bit long winded for my liking. Anyone want to simplify this?

<%# CMS.DocumentEngine.DocumentHelper.GetDocument(int.Parse(Eval("NodeParentID").ToString()), new CMS.DocumentEngine.TreeProvider())["DrawerName"] %>

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Brenden Kehren answered on December 10, 2014 16:54

The first one is correct, is your column name spelled correctly or that your parent document type has that field name?

The second one would need to be wrapped in the macro resolver and remove the "Eval("")" from the NodeAliasPath, sorry, my mistake.

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John Fu answered on December 11, 2014 01:05 (last edited on December 10, 2019 02:30)

So what is the code for the macro resolver? My code now looks like this but it doesn't produce any output.

<%# CMS.MacroEngine.MacroResolver.GetInstance().ResolveMacros("{% Documents[NodeAliasPath].Parent.GetValue(\"DrawerName\") |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}") %>

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Juraj Ondrus answered on December 11, 2014 08:16

Hi John,

Maybe an important note - macros are not supported in ASCX transformation, only txt and HTML transformations are supported.

In ASCX transformation you can use the SCRIPT tags and use the API or you need to create a custom transformation method.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus

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