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  • Andy 4 posts 22 karma points
    Jul 09, 2009 @ 20:47
    Andy
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    getting a template alias

    hello guys,

    I have just started using Umbraco and am slowing getting to grips with it... so I am sure this is a pretty easy question. I wanted to know how I get the current template name and I am not sure of the field? e.g.

    <umbraco:Item runat="server" field="TemplateName"/>

     

    Thanks

    Andy

  • billiblu 37 posts 62 karma points
    Jul 09, 2009 @ 21:09
    billiblu
    1

    if you whant to retrive the current template by using API you can use this code:

    int currentNodeId = umbraco.presentation.UmbracoContext.Current.PageId.Value;
    umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node node = new umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node(currentNodeId);
    umbraco.template t = new umbraco.template(node.template);

    t.TemplateAlias is the alias name of the current template.


    Billi

  • Dirk De Grave 4541 posts 6021 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib
    Jul 09, 2009 @ 21:14
    Dirk De Grave
    3

    Hi Andy,

    I'm not sure why you'd need to get the name of the template... Anyways, you can't get that property from a document as it doesn't exist.

    You could get to the id of the template using:

    <umbraco:Item runat="server" field="template"/>

    but that'll only get you the id of the template.

    On the other hand, using the api, you could instantiate the template using:

    Template templ = new Template(id);

    and get the name of the template using

    var templateName = templ.Text;

    Hope this helps.

     

    Is there any specific reason why you'd need the name of the template?

     

    Regards,

    /Dirk

     

  • Aaron Powell 1708 posts 3046 karma points c-trib
    Jul 10, 2009 @ 00:48
    Aaron Powell
    0

    The Umbraco XML cache does not contain the template alias (see http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-xml-format) it only contains the template ID.

    You need to use the Umbraco API if you want more information about the template

  • Andy 4 posts 22 karma points
    Jul 10, 2009 @ 10:48
    Andy
    0

    Hello guys,

     

    Thanks for your help; Dirk the template ID will be ideal and works fine. I need it because all the templates share the same master; I just need to handle different elements of the master differently for each template. I assume if I had an unique identifier for each template I could use JavaScript to control the elements.

     

    Thanks again all!!!!!!!!

    Cheers,

    Andy

  • Andrew Lansdowne 43 posts 124 karma points
    Sep 20, 2010 @ 13:03
    Andrew Lansdowne
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    FYI in XSLT you can get the template alias by using name() function. E.g. to count children of all but some templates

    count(child::node()[name() != 'templateAlias')

     

  • Matt Bliss 176 posts 234 karma points c-trib
    Nov 30, 2011 @ 18:23
    Matt Bliss
    3

    I had the same question and found a solution with uComponents, so thought I'd add it to this post.

    With uComponents installed you can use the following in xslt to get the template id from the template name:

    ucomponents.cms:GetTemplateIdByAlias('templateAlias')

    For example you could do the following:

      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$currentPage/@template=ucomponents.cms:GetTemplateIdByAlias('HomePage')">
          <xsl:value-of select="'Home Page'"/>
        xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$currentPage/@template=ucomponents.cms:GetTemplateIdByAlias('TextPage')">
          <xsl:value-of select="'Text Page'"/>
        xsl:when>
      xsl:choose>  

    Hopefully this might be of help to someone else as the answer is now probably far too late for the original poster!

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