Hi,

For site settings I follow the same path as you. Add a node at the root of the site.

The second half of the puzzle I create a class to store all my settings values.

E.g

public class SiteSettings
{
    //general settings
    public string SiteName { get; set; }  
    public string SiteUrl { get; set; }
    public string SiteDisplayUrl { get; set; }
    public string SocialMediaShareImage { get; set; }
    public int BlogArticlesPerPage { get; set; }
    public string BlogListPage { get; set; }

    public SiteSettings()
    {
        var node = ContentManager.GetNodeByNodeTypeAlias("siteSettings");
        Parse(node);
    }

    public void Parse(Node node)
    {
        if (node != null)
        {
            //site settings
            SiteName = node.GetProperty("siteName") != null ? node.GetProperty("siteName").Value : string.Empty;
            SiteUrl = node.GetProperty("siteUrl") != null ? node.GetProperty("siteUrl").Value : string.Empty;
            SiteDisplayUrl = node.GetProperty("siteDisplayUrl") != null ? node.GetProperty("siteDisplayUrl").Value : string.Empty;
            SocialMediaShareImage = node.GetProperty("socialMediaShareImage") != null ? MediaManager.GetMediaUrlById(int.Parse(node.GetProperty("socialMediaShareImage").Value), SiteUrl, true) : string.Empty;
            BlogArticlesPerPage = node.GetProperty("blogArticlesPerPage") != null ? int.Parse(node.GetProperty("blogArticlesPerPage").Value) : 5;
            BlogListPage = node.GetProperty("blogListPage") != null ? node.GetProperty("blogListPage").Value : string.Empty;
        }
    }
}

Then whenever in need the site settings either in my backend or my razor script I just call.

SiteSettings siteSettings = new SiteSettings();

Quick and easy. You can probably improve it by adding your own caching but I think Umbraco caches this stuff pretty well already.

Oh and here is the helper method I created to get the siteSettings node

public static Node GetNodeByNodeTypeAlias(string nodeTypeAlias)
{
    return uQuery.GetNode(-1).GetDescendantNodes().Where(x => x.NodeTypeAlias == nodeTypeAlias).FirstOrDefault();
}

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

David

Thanks for your help.
initially i was trying to create model but i cant inherit it to view.

but now

i am using your approach , is there any extra assembly need for same for "ContentManager"

Thanks David it work for me . :)

Hi,

a little late but I mostly go with having a content picker on my root page with which I select the settings page and then get it by the selected id. This can then also be done recursivly.

Regards David

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