API Cheatsheet

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A collection of code samples to perform common tasks with the umbraco API such as creating and publish documents, members and users.

Chapters

• Chapter 1: Creating a document
• Chapter 2: Modifying document values
• Chapter 3: Enumerating documents
• Chapter 4: Attaching document eventhandlers
• Chapter 5: Working with the nodeFactory
• Chapter 6: Using ApplicationBase to register events
• Chapter 7: Working with members
• Chapter 8: Users, User types and permissions
• Chapter 9: Hello from live writer

Creating a document

Sample code to create a document and publishes it

remember to add the cms.dll, businesslogic.dll and umbraco.dll to your project.

Add references to the right namespaces at the top of your .cs file

using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;

Perform the creation

//Get the type you would like to use by its alias
//and the user who should be the creator of the document
DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("Textpage");
User author = User.GetUser(0);

//create a document with a name, a type, an umbraco user, and the ID of the document's parent page.
//To create a document at the root of umbraco, use the id -1
Document doc = Document.MakeNew("My new document", dt, author, 1018); 

//after creating the document, prepare it for publishing
doc.Publish(author);

//Tell umbraco to publish the document
umbraco.library.PublishSingleNode(doc.Id);