ClassDisplayName

It happens to all of us!

The class can be found through the CMS_Tree table, so if you have the current document's NodeID, you can use the CMS.DocumentEngine's either TreeHelper or DocumentHelper (TreeHelper i think has a GetSingleNode where you can pass the NodeID).

Once you have the TreeNode object, you may be able to pull the ClassName from it, if not then grab the ClassID and use the ClassInfoProvider to get the class from the ID, and then the class name from that object.

Trevor,

I have been down that path to no avail. Also TreeHelper is deprecated in V10. Do you have a code example to get the current document class display name ?

Roman, That does not work. The return for that code is incorrect. Any other ideas?

I am using the following now, but was wondering whether there was something a bit more clean. Unfortunately this requires me to settle on part of the class name rather than what is in the ClassDisplayName.

DocumentContext.CurrentDocument.ClassName.Split('.')[1];

What exactly is incorrect? CMS.DataEngine.DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClassInfo(doc.ClassName) returns DataClassInfo object which has many properties including class display name.

Roman, you are correct. Apparently I am unable to write code this morning, maybe after another cup of coffee.

Thanks so much for the answer.

Instead of ToString you need to access the DisplayName property. You can do that by casting to DisplayNameAttribute. liteblue

var classDisplayName =
((DisplayNameAttribute)
typeof(Opportunity).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayNameAttribute), true).FirstOrDefault()).DisplayName;