Show Pages in User Blueprint

The CMS Questions
1

I’m having some trouble with a custom userMethod that retrieves all articles authored by this user and is supposed to show them in a pages section inside the users panel page.

The userMethod looks like this

class EditorUser extends User {

… 

    public function articles() {
        return site()->pages()->find('blog')->children()->filterBy('intendedTemplate', 'article')->filter(function($article) {
            return $article->author()->toUsers()->has($this);
        });
    }

…

}

This function is confirmed working in a template and returns all articles in which this user is set as author.

When trying to add this to a pages section inside the editor.yml blueprint, the pages are not showing up:

    sections:
      authored_articles:
        type: pages
        headline: Authored articles
        parent: site
        query: user.articles
        status: all
        create: false
        help: "{{ user.articles }}"

I can confirm the context of “user” is working in this case, as the help text will actually show the queried pages:

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They just don’t show up as actual pages inside the section. Changing the parent from site to page(‘blog') (which is where my articles live) also doesn’t help.

Is this a bug by any chance? I’m currently on v4.8). I feel like I’ve tried everything I can think of – any hints?

2

I think the problem is context. In the query, `user` seems to refer to the current user, and that’s why the section remains empty.

3

Thank you! It seems odd to me that user means something different inside the query than inside the help text. I have already tried using model instead, but with the same result – the help text shows the method working as expected, the query does not:

      authored_articles:
        type: pages
        headline: Authored articles
        parent: page('blog')
        query: model.articles
        status: all
        create: false
        help: "This user has written {{ model.articles.count }} Articles"

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Is there a way to access a user and its methods inside a query?

4

`user.articles` works if you are in your account to see your own articles. It won’t work if you want to see the articles of user A while being logged-in as user B. So the context of the `user` in the `help` text query is different from the `query` context.

5

Thanks! I do understand that the context is different. I do wonder though wether there is some other way I could access the user whose profile I’m looking at inside the query.