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Certified Developer v6

hoppe - 12/5/2012 9:20:40 AM

Use API to get which column name to use for node alias path and document name

I have a custom document type called health article.

When I use the API to create a new document, it does not honor the values I have set for the document name and node alias path in the CMS Site Manager.

How can I retrieve which columns to use for the document name and the node alias using the API?

I thought that the code below would work (using those properties within (DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClass())), but it does not.

            var tree = new TreeProvider(userInfo);

            using (var parentNode = tree.SelectSingleNode(CMSContext.CurrentSiteName, parentNodePath, "##ALL##", true, "CMS.MenuItem", false))
            {
                if (parentNode == null)
                {
                    return;
                }

                var dataClass = DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClass(CustomFunctions.CustomArticle);

                if (dataClass == null)
                {
                    throw new Exception("Given document type does not exist.");
                }

                // Create a new instance of the Tree node
                var newNode = TreeNode.New(CustomFunctions.CustomArticle, tree);

                var nodeAliasColumn = dataClass.ClassNodeAliasSource;
                var nodeAlias = newNode.GetValue(nodeAliasColumn).ToString();
                newNode.NodeAlias = nodeAlias;

                newNode.DocumentName = newNode.GetValue(dataClass.ClassNodeNameSource).ToString();

                try
                {
                    // Insert the document into the content tree
                    newNode.Insert(parentNode);

Thanks,
Joe Hoppe

Kentico Support

kentico_jurajo - 12/7/2012 2:03:31 AM

RE:Use API to get which column name to use for node alias path and document name

Hi,

In your code:


  var nodeAliasColumn = dataClass.ClassNodeAliasSource;

                newNode.NodeAlias = nodeAlias;

the nodeAliasColumn is just the name of the column, not its data/value. Anyway, this setting is applied automatically. I am using code like this:

// Create an instance of the Tree provider first
        TreeProvider tree = new TreeProvider(CMSContext.CurrentUser);

        // Get the parent node - the API Example folder
        TreeNode parentNode = tree.SelectSingleNode(CMSContext.CurrentSiteName, "/home", "en-us");

        if (parentNode != null)
        {
            var dataClass = DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClass("cms.news");

            if (dataClass != null)
            {
                // Create a new instance of the Tree node
                TreeNode newNode = TreeNode.New("CMS.News", tree);

                // Set the document's properties
                newNode.DocumentName = "My new document";
                newNode.DocumentCulture = "en-us";
                newNode.SetValue("NewsReleaseDate", DateTime.Now); //required field
                newNode.SetValue("NewsSummary", "test summary"); //required field
                newNode.SetValue("NewsText", "news text"); //required field
                //////////////////////
                newNode.SetValue("testaliastext", "text for alias"); //this field is set as the node alias source in type form definition
                /////////////////////
                
                // Insert the document into the content tree
                newNode.Insert(parentNode);
            }

            
        }

And the node alias in CMS_Tree table is filled with the value from the testing column as it is set in Site Manager.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus

Certified Developer v6

hoppe - 12/14/2012 9:12:57 AM

RE:Use API to get which column name to use for node alias path and document name

Hi Juraj,

It seems like the document name field is the source of my question. My document type has the 'document source name field' set to the field 'title'.

If I create a new document using the source code we shared earlier, and do not have newNode.DocumentName explicitly set, the name of the document becomes 'new document', when it instead should take the value of my title field. Do you agree?


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 12/17/2012 1:29:56 AM RE:Use API to get which column name to use for node alias path and document name Hi, Thank you for the clarification, I got it now. Regrettably, it is a bug. I am sorry for this inconvenience. The current workaround is to specify the DocumentName property as well. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus


Certified Developer v6	hoppe - 1/8/2013 8:31:07 AM RE:Use API to get which column name to use for node alias path and document name Okay thanks!