Accessing a contentpicker field value in Orchard

Question

So I am using a Content Picker to display a list of selected items, and by default the out put looks like this:

Testimonial: View, View

But I would like it to actually show the parts of the ContentItem. This is the code that loops through the items:

@using Orchard.ContentPicker.Fields
@using Orchard.Utility.Extensions;

@{
    var field = (ContentPickerField) Model.ContentField;
    string name = field.DisplayName;
    var contentItems = field.ContentItems;
}

<p class="content-picker-field [email protected]()">
    <span class="name">@name:</span>
    @if(contentItems.Any()) {
        foreach(var contentItem in contentItems) {
            <span class="value"> @Html.ItemDisplayLink(contentItem)</span>
            if(contentItem != contentItems.Last()) {
                <span>,</span>
            }
        }
    }
    else {
        <span class="value">@T("No content items.")</span>
    }
</p>

I've tried several different ways of accessing the data but usually end up with warnings saying that it does not contain a reference, or that it can't convert it to a string.

I know that on the actual page for these items, they're in Model.ContentPart.Quote.Value

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Edit I think the problem I am having is that I on the main page, I can't go to Models.Content.Quote or anything similar to access the data because its not listed on this page. The only data about each Quote thats listed is the ID.

Answer 1

Simply change var to dynamic in foreach.

Therefore, you change this:

foreach(var contentItem in contentItems) {
            <span class="value"> @Html.ItemDisplayLink(contentItem)</span>
            if(contentItem != contentItems.Last()) {
                <span>,</span>
            }
        }

to this:

foreach(dynamic contentItem in contentItems) {
            <span class="value"> @Html.ItemDisplayLink(contentItem)</span>
            if(contentItem != contentItems.Last()) {
                <span>,</span>
            }
        }

Then you can access any part inside contentItem like this:

contentItem.ZenGalleryPart.Path


foreach(dynamic contentItem in contentItems) {
            <span class="value"> @Html.ItemDisplayLink(contentItem)</span>
            <span class="value"> @T(contentItem.ZenGalleryPart.Path)</span>
            if(contentItem != contentItems.Last()) {
                <span>,</span>
            }
        }