In an API controller you should be using UmbracoHelper and the GetPropertyValue(propertyAlias, true) the second parameter "true" makes it recursive.

Perhaps you could post some of your code?

Hello, Jeavon.

I don't know is field recirsive or not. I need to know it. How can I define? My regex isn't good, it doesn't work in all cases

template = (new Regex("<umbraco:Item field=\"(?<ID>\\S+)\".*?(recursive=\"(?<recursive>\\S+)\")??.*?/>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase|RegexOptions.Singleline))
                .Replace(template,m =>PageFlowManager.ReplaceItemFieldWithPropertyValue(m,publishedContent));

template - is thу whole page template. 

Can you explain why you are parsing the template at all?

We use Umbraco as external service for site. And I need to return code from like this

but the whole template is

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/masterpages/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="head" runat="server">
    <umbraco:Item field="HeadScriptTitle" recursive="true"  runat="server" />
</asp:content>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="PageHeader" runat="server">    
    <umbraco:Item field="HeadOfPage"  recursive="true" runat="server" />
</asp:content>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="phCenter" runat="server">  
    <umbraco:Item field="PageCenterField" runat="server" />
<umbraco:Item field="innerfielddetail" recursive="true" runat="server" />     
</asp:content>    
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="PageLeft" runat="server">  
    <umbraco:Item field="PageLeft" recursive="true"  runat="server" />
    <umbraco:Macro menuIdArray="menuIDs" Alias="MenuRender"  runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>    
</asp:content>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="PageFooter" runat="server">    
    <umbraco:Item field="PageFooter" recursive="true"  runat="server" />
</asp:content>
<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="phRight" runat="server">   
    <umbraco:Item field="PageRight" recursive="true"  runat="server" />
</asp:content>

I need to replace umbraco:Item with macro (I use the same path in the site) and html-tags. Without umbraco:Item. But I can't write correct regex for "recursive"

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