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Damion 96 posts 331 karma points

Aug 20, 2019 @ 14:40
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Creating media item with IMediaService

Extending Umbraco and using the API

Umbraco 8
I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction with this.

I'm using IMediaService in v8 as specified here to create a media item, but it fails on the line
```
var item = _mediaService.CreateMedia(itemName, id, itemTypeAlias, _automatonId);
```
with the error

Value cannot be null.\r\nParameter name: parent

As far as I can tell I've included everything I need to call CreateMedia, any ideas?

thanks
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Shaishav Karnani from digitallymedia.com 354 posts 1638 karma points

Aug 20, 2019 @ 15:45

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Yes the function syntax is .CreateMedia(string name, int parentId, string mediaTypeAlias, [int userId = 0])

and it looks correct from your method but please can you double check that "id" is not null and is parentId in your createmedia statement.

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Damion 96 posts 331 karma points

Aug 20, 2019 @ 15:49

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Hi,

thanks for replying, id is definitely populated with the relevant guid and being passed in where parentId should be - not sure what the issue is.

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Shaishav Karnani from digitallymedia.com 354 posts 1638 karma points

Aug 20, 2019 @ 16:25

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Instead of GUID - please can you pass int parentID and try as method is accepting integer.

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Paul Seal 524 posts 2889 karma points MVP 6x c-trib

Aug 20, 2019 @ 22:13

Hi Damion

// use this to create the media item
var media = _mediaService.CreateMedia(nodeName, parentFolderId, nodeTypeAlias);

//if you want to specify the key you can like this
media.Key = new Guid("db22bb69-b0ae-44bb-9019-a3e6498d4c25");
_mediaService.Save(media);

I hope this helps

Paul

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Damion 96 posts 331 karma points

Aug 21, 2019 @ 08:55

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Cheers Paul,

I misunderstood what id I should have been passing in, once I passed the parent folder id it worked fine.

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