Hi Lewis,

take a look at this example code:

IContent page = null;
page = Services.ContentService.CreateContent("Page Name here", this.Services.ContentService.GetById(1115), "productWatch", 0);
page.SetValue("propOneAlias", propOneValue);
page.SetValue("propTwoAlias", propTwoValue);

Services.ContentService.Save(page);

The class model you need is IContent. Then to set your properties use the method SetValue() and as a final you save the content object using the Services.ContentService.Save() method.

Hope this helps!

/Michaël

Hi Michael,

Cracking! It's adding a page I have changed the .Save to .SaveAndPublishWithStatus but im getting an error in my logs of

 2018-04-17 15:50:22,145 [P115440/D2/T11] INFO  Umbraco.Core.Services.ContentService - Content 'new rolex' with Id '0' could not be published because of invalid properties.

Is this because there are required properties that do not have a value?

Thanks, Lewis

Hi Lewis,

yes, looking into the source code and I see it does do checks on the properties values. So yes if you have mandatory properties you need to fill them in.

Hope this helps!

/Michaël

Thanks again. In regards to attaching an image so .SetValue() with the image being set, is this expecting the image URL, Id etc etc etc?

thanks, Lewis

Hi Lewis,

no problem, glad to help here.

Yes you will first need to create a Media object and save this in order to have an id which you then fill in into the property of your content.

Have a look at this thread here:

https://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/47792-Create-Media-Programmatically-in-V7

Api docs about the media service:

https://our.umbraco.org/apidocs/csharp/api/Umbraco.Core.Services.MediaService.html

The method you need is the CreateMedia()

Hope this helps.

/Michaël

Hi Michael,

So I have the media item being created now. After creating the image in the media section how could i get this items id in order to pass this into the page publish?

Thanks, Lewis

Hi Michael,

The Id im getting from the item.id is returning an id that is different to the item that was uploaded!

Below is the code im using to successfully upload but return the wrong id!!

--

Model:

public class ImageModel
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Url { get; set; }
    public int ParentId { get; set; }
}

--

Controller

var Media = new ImageModel();
Media.Title = PageTitle + Reference + "main";
Media.ParentId = GetParentMappedImage("Rolex");
Media.Url = "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/63/19/c56319f33466a4304f41fc1ad810ebb1.jpg";


//running task to upload image.     
var mediaId =  UploadImageToMedia(Media.Title, Media.ParentId, "Image", Media.Url);

//mediaId is the Id I need to pass into the content for the image.
//Content is then uploaded using this mediaId as the ID for the image. 

public int UploadImageToMedia(string MediaItemTitle, int ParentId, string MediaTypeAlias, string ImageUrl)
{
     var mediaId = 0;
     var mediaService = Services.MediaService;
     var request = WebRequest.Create(ImageUrl);
     var webResponse = request.GetResponse();
     var responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
     if(responseStream != null)
     {
        var originalImage = new Bitmap(responseStream);
        var path = Server.MapPath("/Media-Auto/" + MediaItemTitle + ".jpg");

        originalImage.Save(path, ImageFormat.Jpeg);

        FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);
        var fileName = fileStream.Name;

        var mediaImage = mediaService.CreateMedia(MediaItemTitle, ParentId, "Image");
        mediaImage.SetValue("umbracoFile", fileName, fileStream);
        mediaId = mediaImage.Id;
        mediaService.Save(mediaImage);
        responseStream.Dispose();
        webResponse.Dispose();
        originalImage.Dispose();
    }
    return mediaId;
    //this is returning an id that doesnt match the Id of the image that was uploaded....
    }

Thanks, Lewis

EDIT: GetParentMappedImage gets the id for the parent where the image wants to be placed. Just a simple switch that gets the Id based on the title passed in.

Hi Richard,

I will have a look into this and consider it.

Thanks, Lewis