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MadzQuestioning
MadzQuestioning

Reputation: 3762

Umbraco Document type field value

I'm really new to C# and Umbraco. I need to retrieve the configuration value in my Controller file. Below is the image of my cms and the name it's using is ApiKeys

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Now in my controller I want to retrieve the value of googleMapsApiKey but I have ZERO knowledge on how to accomplish this. Is there a helper or any class that I need to use to retrieve this? Now this googleMapsApiKey is not connected to any particular page meaning I should be able to access this value in any page that I want. Any idea on how to achieve this? Sorry if I can't post any code yet since I have no idea on how to start.

Let's just assume that I want to retrieve the value in one of my function in my Controller. How do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 278

Answers (1)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 677

First you need to use this Document type (APIKeys in your content tree). You can create a node of this content type (APIKeys), then assign a value for the "Google Maps API key" field.

Then, you want to retrieve this value in your C# code or a view.

To do that, you can do something like this:

var myAPIKey = UmbracoContext.Content.GetSingleByXPath("//{apiKeysDocumentTypeAlias}").Value<IPublishedContent>("googleMapsApiKey");

Replace {apiKeyDocumentTypeAlias} with the APIKeys document type alias

I hope this will help you

Upvotes: 1

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