Custom Block View: How best to resolve content from a MNTP Unique?

[sm-rob (Robert Shaw)]

Hello @warren,

As per most of my responses, please don’t take this as gospel, I’ve been trying all sorts of stuff, and the last thing I want to do is lead people up the wrong garden path.

However. If you see this reply on this post:

Opening a Content Picker modal from a Custom Property Editor

Hello @KevinJump . Thank you so much. Not sure how I missed that. With regards to getting the details. I am having to use “UmbDocumentItemRepository”. to get the details of the item(s) that were selected. I assume this is an ok approach? E.g import { UMB_DOCUMENT_PICKER_MODAL, UmbDocumentItemRepository } from '@umbraco-cms/backoffice/document'; #itemRepository = new UmbDocumentItemRepository(this); modal.onSubmit().then(async (response) => { if (!response) return; let { data } = awa…

Using the DocumentItemRepository might help you get the content via the unique property for your card item.

import { UmbDocumentItemRepository } from '@umbraco-cms/backoffice/document';

and

let { data } = await this.#itemRepository.requestItems( [unique] );

I might be wrong, but .requestItems is looking for an array of unique’s.

Thank you,
Rob