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Richard Hamilton 36 posts 158 karma points

Jun 25, 2020 @ 14:42

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Umbraco 8 move a node to a parent folder by it's parent folder key (Guid)

Hi,

in Umbraco 8 I want to move a node to a parent folder by it's parent folder key (Guid)

Can I do something like this:

_contentService.Move(orderNode, new Guid(archiveParentId));

It says it needs the integer Id but thought we were moving away from them?

Many thanks

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Marc Goodson 2155 posts 14408 karma points MVP 9x c-trib

Jun 27, 2020 @ 11:49
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Hi Richard

It looks like the ContentService doesn't have a signature for move that takes the parent GUID 'yet'

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/d65041c2503fc85ac4619a4abcd703dcc20f067d/src/Umbraco.Core/Services/Implement/ContentService.cs#L1923

(you can see 'Create' has been updated in this file to have both int Id, and Guid signatures).

The 'GetById' method has both signatures:

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/d65041c2503fc85ac4619a4abcd703dcc20f067d/src/Umbraco.Core/Services/Implement/ContentService.cs#L377

So if you ONLY have access to the parent GUID in your custom method, you could first retrieve the parent as an IContent item and pass the integer Id into the move signature.
```
IContent archiveParent = _ContentService.GetById(archiveParentGuid);
_contentService.Move(orderNode, archiveParent.Id);
```
but, as the Move method will then retrieve the IContent object again for the Parent by it's integer Id, it would be much better to have signatures taking in the Guid and/or an IContent item for the Parent when performing this Move...

regards

Marc
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Richard Hamilton 36 posts 158 karma points

Jun 28, 2020 @ 14:57

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Thanks Marc

Thats what I went with for now.

I guess I could add this as an application variable as the parent folders should not be deleted.

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