Hi Guys,

So I am trying to figure out the best way to create context menu items in the back-end that's only displayed on a specific document type.

So Iv'e managed to do this Ok I just think there might be a better way.

The code below works and does add a context menu only on this specific document type. My question is....

Is there any way of doing this without using the content service to get the node just to check the document type.

eg. var content = contentService.GetById(nodeId);

It just seems overkill having to run this code everytime the user pulls up the context menus especially when the especially when this custom stuff isn't related to the other nodes. I've noticed it does slow the context menu loading down slightly which is annoying.

I am just wondering if there is any smart way of pulling the document type from the sender or something???

private void ContentTreeController_MenuRendering(TreeControllerBase sender, MenuRenderingEventArgs e)
        {
            var treeAlias = sender.TreeAlias;
            var queryString = e.QueryStrings["id"];

            if (e.NodeId != "-1")
            {
                var contentService = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService;

                int nodeId;
                if(int.TryParse(e.NodeId,out nodeId))
                {
                    var content = contentService.GetById(nodeId);

                    if (content != null)
                    {
                        var nodeTypeAlias = content.ContentType.Alias;

                        if (nodeTypeAlias == "myNodeTypeAlias")
                        {
                            var validateMember = new MenuItem("approveMember", "Approve Member");
                            validateMember.AdditionalData.Add("actionView", "/App_Plugins/BackendExtensions/views/approveMember.html");
                            validateMember.Icon = "facebook-like";
                            e.Menu.Items.Insert(e.Menu.Items.Count, validateMember);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Thanks in advanced.

Kind Regards

David