Show Blog Name in Blog Post Transformation

Is there the month level between Blog name and Blog post, and are you using ASCX or HTML transformation?

Using Macro, it can be as simple as {% Documents[NodeAliasPath].Parent.Parent.DocumentName |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%} if you only have the Blog Name > Blog post levels.

If you're displaying all the posts on the actual blog page then you can use something as simple as CurrentDocument.DocumentName.

What I mean is if your structure is like this:

/Blog-1/month/post
/Blog-1/month/post
/Blog-2/month/post
/Blog-3/month/post

And you have your listing viewer on the /Blog-# page, you can get that document's name if you are on that current page.

Try one of the following in your ascx transformation:

<%# CurrentDocument.DocumentName %>
<%# CurrentDocument.GetValue("BlogName") %>

Hello Rui and Brenden,

This would be an ASCX transformation from a page above the blog posts, so CurrentDocument will not give the correct information. I also had no luck using Rui's macro expressions, as none of them resolved.

For reference, the Tree looks like this:

Page with Transformation
--Blog 1
----Blog Post 1
----Blog Post 4 
--Blog 2
----Blog Post 2
----Blog Post 3

And I would like the transformation to look like this:

Blog 1: Blog Post 1
Blog 2: Blog Post 2
Blog 2: Blog Post 3
Blog 1: Blog Post 4

Can this be done with a simple transformation?

Thanks.

-mike

So in that case, you'd have to perform a lookup based on the NodeParentID and get that document name. Doesn't matter if it's in C# or a Macro, both will make another call to the database for every page you render in that transformation. Your call will look something like this:

string parentName = ValidationHelper.GetString(DocumentHelper.GetDocuments().WhereEquals("NodeID", Eval<int>("ParentNodeID")).And().WhereEquals("ClassName", "cms.blog").FirstObject.DocumentName, "");

@Mike, what I had was macro, which you cannot use in ASCX transformation directly.

Mike, there is always to option to add a custom Transformation method if it's too complex to write the code in ASCX transformation directly. https://docs.kentico.com/k10/custom-development/miscellaneous-custom-development-tasks/adding-custom-methods-to-transformations

You can create a method like GetBlogName(NodeID) which you get use Document API to get the parent node name, then, when you call the method, it would be <%# GetBlogName(Eval("NodeID")) %>