Hi Andy,

in Umbraco you usually don't create DocumentTypes by Code. You are using the UI in the CMS.

There is a IContentTypeService which you can inject into your controller/class and use.

But when you are trying to create your site structure then as said use the UI.

Regards David

Hi

I'm not sure about v8, but I can give you an example for v10

To create a Document Type in code, you'll need to use the ContentTypeService (Document Types were known as Content Types in previous version of Umbraco, so the service still has the old name).

You'll need nuget packages Umbraco.Cms.Core and Umbraco.Cms.Web.Backoffice at minimum

The below example creates a container (folder) called 'Test' and creates a new content type within it called "New Content Type".

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Strings;
using Umbraco.Cms.Web.BackOffice.Controllers;

namespace SpektrixHelper.Controllers
{
    public class TestController : UmbracoAuthorizedApiController
    {
        public readonly IContentTypeService _contentTypeService;
        public readonly IShortStringHelper _shortStringHelper;

        public TestController(ISpektrixSync spektrixService, IContentTypeService contentTypeService, IShortStringHelper shorty)
        {
            _contentTypeService = contentTypeService;
            _shortStringHelper = shorty;
        }

        public ActionResult DoSomething()
        {

            //default level is 1
            var container = _contentTypeService.GetContainers("Test", 1)?.FirstOrDefault();

            if (container == null)
            {
                //-1 = the parent id
                var attempt = _contentTypeService.CreateContainer(-1, Guid.NewGuid(), "Test");
                var result = attempt.Result.Entity;
                _contentTypeService.SaveContainer(result);
            }

            IContentType newCT = _contentTypeService.Get("New Content Type");
            if (newCT == null)
            {
                newCT = new ContentType(_shortStringHelper, container.Id) { Alias = "newContentType", Icon = "icon-clothes-hanger color-deep-purple" };
                newCT.Name = "New Content Type";
                _contentTypeService.Save(newCT);
            }

            return Ok();
        }
    }
}

Once you've installed the necessary packages, you should be able to go to the URL /umbraco/backoffice/api/SyncTest/DoSomething , to run the code.

Tested in Umbraco 10.5.1

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