The data is stored inside extension properties in your content function so you can use something like:

foreach (ContentFunctionData functionData in list)
{

//functionData is lazy loaded.
functionData.Load();

//access each property by indexer (check values first)
heading = functionData.Property["Heading"].ToString();

//OR iterate properties
foreach (PropertyData property in functionData.Property)
{
//do something with properties
}

}

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for your help, that gets me a step further towards what I'm trying to acheive, but I still have one more thing that I need to do.

functionData.Load() presumably loads in the property data into the functionData object (from the underlying DB). I can then go through and get the PropertyData for functionData, but I don't really want to deal with these properties in isolation, instead I want to load in the actual control and render it out, if that makes sense.

In other words what I'm looking for is a method whereby I could say something like: LoadControl("path to ascx", functionData), and this would load in the X3 control, populating the fields in there with the data held in functionData's Property object.

I would imagine that this is what's happening under the covers in X3 - that the EpiServer page loads, X3 grabs the ExtensionPageData object, and then loads in the controls for each extension area somehow, initializing them with the correct property data to allow them to render the correct contents.

This is what I'm trying to do, do you have any further input as to how I might get this done?

Thanks again

If you have the ContentFunctionData this should work..

ContentFunctionData func.....
Control ctrl = LoadControl(func.ControlPath);
((BaseContentFunction)ctrl).ContentFunctionData = func;

Hi Graeme.

This sounds like something that EPiServers "Fetch Data From" might solve. Is it possible to use that EPiServer fiunctionality, or are your demands different?

BR
Fredrik Karlsson
Dropit/cmsapps.net