Umbraco Content data source doesn't work on member

Which Contentment version are you using?

1.4.4

Which Umbraco version are you using? For example: 8.14.1 - don’t just write v8

8.13.1

Bug summary

Not sure if this is a bug in Contentment as it is also the behaviour with MNTP.

When using Umbraco Content data source on a member, the data list doesn’t show any data. This is probably because it doesn’t know about the context. I can probably use $root instead of $site when we know only a single site node is used:

I suggested this some time ago to make MNTP work on Media and Member types, when current section is not Content section: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/pull/10049

Steps to reproduce

Create a datatype using Data List and Umbraco Content as datasource. Specify Xpath query using $site and add a property to a member type using this datatype.

When “Add” on member property no content is shown in overlay.

Expected result / actual result

No response

Do you have Umbraco ModelsBuilder enabled?

• Yes, it is enabled.

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

No response

[leekelleher]

The main reason for the Umbraco dependency bump was to do with the <umb-icon> directive, (and v8.14 was the latest at the time). Always tricky for a package developer to balance progress/enhancements with maintenance/support. 😬

For now I think a custom data source using Internal og External examine index may be good enough 😊

Feel free to reuse what you need from the Examine data-source - if it helps? e.g. https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment/blob/dev/v2.x/src/Umbraco.Community.Contentment/DataEditors/DataList/DataSources/ExamineDataListSource.cs

[leekelleher]

Closing off this issue, (as per the original query). As mentioned above, https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment/issues/184#issuecomment-963215362, the “Umbraco Content” data-source was (limited) designed to work within the Content section.