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How to access Another Module's Content and Presentation Items after 2sxc v10.20+

Here is code that worked up through 2sxc 10.9.1. Though I am able to get the CmsBlock for the TabID, ModuleID and get that to .Render(), I need more. Here is the old code. Not sure it makes any difference, but this View is using the normal Link content-type and is running in an older version of the Content App (appx 3.03=ish). 2sxc has been upgraded and is now 11.22.0 LTS.

I have removed unnecessary stuff, so I doubt this runs as is...

@using ToSic.Razor.Blade
@using ToSic.SexyContent.Environment.Dnn7

@{
  var Helpers = CreateInstance("_Helpers.cshtml");

  // Display the items from the Manage Links module, we go in 'sideways'
  // this gives us just the Content items with their Presentations settings, etc.
  var sxci = Factory.SxcInstanceForModule(3360, 606); // ModuleID of Manage Links
  var dyn = Factory.CodingHelpers(sxci);
  var allLinks = dyn.AsDynamic(dyn.Data["Default"]); 
}

@* other stuff *@

<div class="row co-documents justify-content-center align-items-center">
  @foreach (var linkItem in allLinks) {
    var linkInfo = Helpers.LinkInfos(linkItem.Link, linkItem.Window, linkItem.Icon);
    string iconStyle = linkItem.IconStyle ?? "fas";
    int linkColumns = (int)linkItem.Presentation.Columns;
    string linkIconAlign = linkItem.Presentation.IconAlign;
    string linkIconBGColor = linkItem.Presentation.IconBGColor;

@* other stuff *@

  }
</div>

So the easy thing to figure out was how to get the module as a CmsBlock which I can Render() as is (below), but what I need to do instead is get proper access to the List of Content Items AND their Presentation data (like above, allLinks).

ToSic.Sxc.Dnn.Factory.CmsBlock(606, 3360).Render();

What am I missing? How can I get access to the other module's data like I was doing before? In this case, I do this in 3 different places on the website. So to outline this in English, I have a module that the client manages a few special links that get displayed in MegaMenus, other special nav, and directly on a couple of pages. In each place they render differently. In their "home" module, where they get edited, they just look boring like this:

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I realize its something like this:

var allLinks = something1.AsList(something2.Data["Default"]);

I understand that something2 is an app instance, but how do I create it in the context of the other module?

And what is something1 nowadays? And how do instantiate it? Looks like its a new ToSic.Sxc.Code.DynamicCode() but I can't figure out how to construct that in a way that I can use or doesn't just throw errors.

Thanks in advance for any insight!!

Solution

  • Okay, it took a little testing, trial and error. And also I missed that DynamicCode() was a Method of the Factory class. In retrospect it does seem easy now.

    So first you get the BlockBuilder

      var block = Factory.CmsBlock(606, 3360);

    Then you get the DynamicCode instance (Code.DnnDynamicCodeRoot) from that

    var dc = Factory.DynamicCode(block);

    And then things are normal

    var allLinks = AsList(dc.Data["Default"]);

    The rest of the code works like it did before; I can foreach through the links with Header (renamed from ListContent) and Presentation (now Content.Presentation) working just as expected.