Just use:

string propName = umbNode.GetProperty("propertyAlias1").PropertyType.Alias;

But, since you're already specifying a string with the property alias, maybe you mean that you just want a list of properties and their values?

This should work:

            var properties = umbNode.getProperties;
            foreach (var property in properties)
            {
                var name = property.PropertyType.Alias;
                var value = property.Value;
                // do something
            }

Hi Sebastiaan.

I don't see the getProperties method nor property.PropertyType...

I'm on 4.5.1.

I have a reference to umbraco and umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory. Any idea why?

Duarte

Try adding the cms.dll to your references and in your usings add umbraco.cms.businesslogic and umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web. 

My compiler output shows that I'm loading all dlls fine. I'm writing an ashx in umbraco's root, so all \bin assemblies are being loaded.But I have also now added <@Assembly> directives to be sure.

I can only see getProperties on umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document, and PropertyType on umbraco.cms.businesslogic.property.

Nothing on Nodes... I can't see umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Property.PropertyType... nor Node.GetProperties, just Node.Properties. And  .Properties returns nodeFactory.Property which doesn't access the property name. Is there a cast or queryinterface I can do?

Duarte

Oh I'm sorry, you're working with the nodeFactory! I was working with the umbraco Document object.

The properties should be available like this (using umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory):

            var props = umbNode.Properties;
            foreach (Property property in props)
            {
                var name = property.Alias;
                var value = property.Value;
            }

;)

ok, so now back to the start... :)

That's my original problem. I can only get the Alias which is really a shorthand version of the property name. I need the name to show the user in a list of results from a search. Do I have to use Documents (I was avoiding this since I saw comments about performance).

Thanks for your patience.

Duarte

Right, no problem we're getting there! 

In order to get the description that you've set on the docType (as opposed to the alias), you'd have to access the document type, which means a hit to the database, you should probably cache your macro if this gets used a lot:

            var docType = DocumentType.GetByAlias(umbNode.NodeTypeAlias);
            foreach (var propertyType in docType.PropertyTypes)
            {
                var propName = propertyType.Name;
                var propValue = umbNode.GetProperty(propertyType.Alias).Value;
            }

Ok. So now I'm thinking I should go the xml route... So... with result.id I can use GetXmlNodeById, and access all properties names?

Duarte

In XSLT you can simply do something like:

      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/data">
        <xsl:variable name="currentPropertyAlias" select="@alias"/>
        Name: <xsl:value-of select="$currentPropertyAlias"/><br />
        Value: <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias = $currentPropertyAlias]"/><br />
        <hr />
      </xsl:for-each>

Of course, instead of $currentPage, you can put the node in there that you go through GetXmlNodeById.

Old post but i'm trying to make a object generator for Umbraco and i need to find the c# type of a PropertyType. Where can i find those?

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