What I'm essentially trying to do is the following:

I have examine searching a whole pile of nodes.. some of those are nodes used for content holding only (not in a nice layout the user can visit on a page) for example an faq answer.

So in the search results if the search finds content in the faq answer to display, iterate upwards and find the faq page (which is a descendant of a certain document type)

I'm trying to get find if the current node is a descendant of a certain document type (aka a page in a nice layout that users can see) and if so use it's link.. if it isn't then check it's parent and see if it is a descendant of a certain document type. I have a Node object and wanted to access it's DocumentType object... alas instead the work around is converting back to XML and checking that.. is there a better way??

string GetPageUrlForPageNode(Node currentNode)
        {
            string result = umbraco.library.NiceUrl(currentNode.Id);
            var nodeAsXml = umbraco.library.GetXmlNodeById(currentNode.Id.ToString());
            var nodeLevel = nodeAsXml.Current.GetAttribute("level","");
            var nodeDocType = nodeAsXml.Current.GetAttribute("nodeType","");
            if (int.Parse(nodeLevel) > 1)
            {
                DocumentType currentNodeDocumentType = new DocumentType(int.Parse(nodeDocType));
                while (currentNodeDocumentType != null && currentNodeDocumentType.Text != "Standard Page")
                {
                    currentNodeDocumentType = (DocumentType)currentNodeDocumentType.Parent;
                }

                if (currentNodeDocumentType != null)
                {
                    return result;
                }
                else
                {
                    result = GetPageUrlForPageNode(currentNode.Parent);
                }
            }

            return result;
        }

Hi Tom,

Yes, you can use the "NodeTypeAlias" property from the Node object...

umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node node = umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node.GetCurrent();
umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType docType = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType.GetByAlias(node.NodeTypeAlias);
// do what you like with the 'docType' object

Cheers, Lee.

Also found this post useful. Thanks

This post helped me to determine the default template of a DocumentType, which I needed to embed nodes in a page.

var node = new DynamicNode(@link.link);

umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType docType = 
                                  umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType.GetByAlias(node.NodeTypeAlias);

int template = node.template;
int defaultTemplate = docType.DefaultTemplate;
int templateToUse = (template == 0) ? defaultTemplate : template;
string embeddedContent = umbraco.library.RenderTemplate(node.Id, templateToUse);

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