Localisation - using localisation in Contensis razorviews - In razor we can access the current pages' language folder and then use that to look-up all nodes in the CMS that are in that language. So for example, we can use this to build a custom search results razorview, which is language specific. Or we can build up a more specific search query …

Localisation part 1 - get all nodes in current language.cshtml

@using System.Collections.ObjectModel
@using Contensis.Framework.Web
@using Contensis.Framework.Web.Search

@{
  
  @*
   - assuming the site structure has been setup so that all content for each language
   - is contained in a language folder that sits under the website root, we target the
   - current pages' language folder and create a dynamic path variable which we tie into 
   - the search api to give us our language 'filter'
   -
   - looking at the search content table, it doesn't look like we can find all nodes 
   - by language directly, but this method should be pretty full proof (used on Newport)
  *@
  
  
  // identify the language folder and create the language path variable
  int homeId = CurrentNode.Parent.AncestorAtDepth(1).ID;
  NodeFactory nf = new NodeFactory();
  string languagePath = ((FolderNode)nf.LoadById(homeId)).Path;
  
  
  // build a query using the language path to restrict results to the current language
  IQuery query = Query.Where("Property_Path").StartsWith(languagePath);
  
  
  // get the nodes using the query
  ReadOnlyCollection<ContentNode> nodes = new NodeFinder().Find(query);
  
  
  // render the results (if there are any)
  if(nodes.Count > 0)
  {
    <div>
      <ul>
        @{
          foreach(ContentNode node in nodes)
          {
            <li>
              <h2>
                <a href="@node.Path">@node.Title</a>
              </h2>
              
              <p>@node.Data.Description</p>          
            </li>
          }
        }
      </ul>
    </div>
  }
  
}

Localisation part 2 - using localised values in razorviews.cshtml

@using System.Collections.ObjectModel
@using Contensis.Framework.Web
@using Contensis.Framework.Web.Search

@{
  
  @*
    - using the ID of the localised value, we can easily populate hardcoded text elements
    - on pages/templates for all required languages without clutering the razorview with
    - string variables set by a bunch of if or switch statements
    -
    - useful for things such as the text on a Search button or the Next/Previous text on
    - pagination links etc etc
  *@
  
  
  ILocalisation localisation = CurrentContext.Localisations;
  
  
  // identify current language
  int language = CurrentNode.Language;
  
  
  // get and render localised value using its ID
  <p>@localisation.Get(33, language)</p>
  
}