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  • Sonja 133 posts 621 karma points
    Oct 16, 2019 @ 10:57
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    Get property value of a field

    Hi,

    I have property name of a field and I need to get the value. For example I have "Device Name" and the alias is deviceName. So how do I get the value of this field if I have only "Device Name":

    Thanks

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  • Kevin Jump 2348 posts 14896 karma points MVP 8x c-trib
    Oct 16, 2019 @ 11:40
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    Hi Sonja,

    you can't guarantee it will always work because the user can choose to manually change the alias of a property, but :

    the .ToSafeAlias() string extension would do this for you.

    e.g

    var propertyName = "Device Name";
var propertyAlias = propertyName.ToSafeAlias();

    requires Using Umbraco.Core

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  • Sonja 133 posts 621 karma points
    Oct 16, 2019 @ 11:45
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    Hi Kevin, I don't need this, the name can be "Device Name" but the property alias can be devName I don't think it will work like this, and I need it to work always

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  • Steve Megson 151 posts 1024 karma points MVP c-trib
    Oct 16, 2019 @ 12:20
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    The cached published content only knows the aliases, so I think you'd have to use the ContentTypeService. You'd probably want to cache the results if you need to do this a lot.

    Something like this should work:

    var contentTypeId = publishedContent.ContentType.Id;
var contentType = ApplicationContext.Services.ContentTypeService.GetById(contentTypeId);
var property = contentType.CompositionPropertyTypes.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == propertyName);
var propertyAlias = property.Alias;
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  • Sonja 133 posts 621 karma points
    Oct 18, 2019 @ 05:57
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    Hi Steve,

    can I do this in a partial view? Also I need the value, not the alias.

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