News list with category filtering Requires meta data for categories to be added to the page so editors can control categories shown.

news list with category filter

@using Contensis.Framework.Web
@using Contensis.Framework.Web.Search
 
@{
    // Get category value from url to filter results with
        var catFilter = Request.QueryString["TaxonomyKey"];
    
    // Get news articles
        var newsArticlesQuery = Query.Where("SC_T_ID").IsEqualTo("-2875009").And("Property_TaxonomyCategories").Contains(catFilter).OrderBy("Property_DatePublished").Descending; 
        var newsArticles = new NodeFinder().Find(newsArticlesQuery, selectCount:8);
       
    
    //Get array of categories from the meta data checklist
        var catNodes = CurrentNode.Data.NewsCatList.Values();
    
    //Set initial active class on 'all' link
        var allActive = "inactive";
        if (catFilter == null) {
            allActive = "active";
        }
}
<div id="filteredNewsList">
    <h2 class="usr-headingLargeCentred">Latest</h2>
    <div class="centerFloat">
        <ul class="filterNav">
        
        
            <li class="@allActive"><a href="?TaxonomyKey&amp;#filteredNewsList">All</a></li>
            @foreach (var childNode in catNodes)
            {
                var catNode = CurrentContext.Taxonomy.GetByPath("StructuredContent/newscategories/" + childNode);
                var activeCat = "inactive";
                if (catFilter == catNode.Key) {
                        activeCat = "active";
                    }
                <li class="@activeCat"><a href="[email protected]&amp;#filteredNewsList">@childNode</a></li>
            }
        </ul>
    </div>

    
    <div class="blockWrapper blockWrapperSpaced2 newsBlocks">
        @for (var i = 0; i < newsArticles.Count; i += 4)
            {
            <div class="blockRow">
                @foreach (var newsArticle in newsArticles.Skip(i).Take(4))
                {    
                    var publishedDate = newsArticle.Data.DatePublished.ToString("d MMMM yyyy");
                    var description = newsArticle.Data.Description.ToString();
                    var charCount = description.Length; 
                    var ellipsis = ""; 
                    var desc2 = description;
                    if(charCount >= 80) {
                        ellipsis = "&hellip;";
                        desc2 = description.Substring(0, 80) + ellipsis;
                    }
                        <a class="block TextBlockArticle" href="@newsArticle.Path">
                            <div class="block-content TextBlockArticle-content">
                                <span class="TextBlockArticle-date">@publishedDate</span>
                                <h3 class="block-title TextBlockArticle-title">@newsArticle.Title</h3>
                                <p>@Html.Raw(desc2)</p>
                            </div>
                        </a>
                }
            </div>
        }
    </div>   
</div>