Hi all,

I'm trying to find a more dynamic way of selecting what should be the parentNode of my new content when creating pages using the Content Service. Currently I am doing the following:

//Umbraco Content Services
    int rootID = 1117;
    var continentPages = contentService.GetChildren(rootID).Where(x => x.ContentType.Alias == "continent");

    //Loop through each continent in the response
    foreach (var continent in response)
    {
      bool update = false;

      //Loop through each existing page with a document type alias of "destination"
      foreach (var existingContinentPage in continentPages)
      {
        var existingContinentPageId = existingContinentPage.GetValue<int>("continentId");
        // If an existing page matches the new continent ID, update it
        if (existingContinentPageId == continent.Id)
        {
          existingContinentPage.SetValue("continentName", continent.ContinentName + "updated");
          existingContinentPage.SetValue("continentNotes", continent.Notes + "updated");
          contentService.SaveAndPublishWithStatus(existingContinentPage);
          update = true;
          break;
        }
      }

      // If no page update has taken place, add a new page
      if (update == false)
      {
        var destination = contentService.CreateContent(continent.ContinentName, rootID, "continent");
        destination.SetValue("continentId", continent.Id);
        destination.SetValue("continentName", continent.ContinentName);
        destination.SetValue("continentNotes", continent.Notes);
        contentService.SaveAndPublishWithStatus(destination);
      }

    } 

However, what I really want to do is get rid of the hard-coded rootID and acquire this dynamically. In this case, there will only ever be one page of contentType.Alias == "continents" that will be the parent page of the continent pages in the code above.

How do I go about acquiring this ID for use in my code?

I thought of doing the following:

var homepage = contentService.GetRootContent();

But this would only retreive the homepage of which the "continents" page I require is a child.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone knows how I can force there to only be one content page of type "continents" that would also be greatly appreciated.