Document Type to Document Type

Created: July 07, 2016 - Last update: July 07, 2016
Question: with the following: Does the above mean that you do not need to map every single Document Type?ok, i've tried it and it doesn't work. I might try and get it working at some point. Thanks for the package so far, it's good.It might, I don't think I ever tried. :D …
Document Centre

Starter Kits / Packages / Our
Created: January 24, 2011 - Last update: December 14, 2023
This package contains funcitonality to enable a Document Centre within a secure client area. Users can browse document folders, upload documents, check in, check out and view the history.
Document Types

Documentation / Tutorials / Creating Basic Site / Document Types
Created: - Last update: May 16, 2025
Document Types The first step in any Umbraco site is to create a Document Type A Document Type is a data container in Umbraco where you can add Properties data fieldsattributes to input data Each Property has a Data Type like text string number or rich text body Umbraco outputs the input data usin…
Interface for Document

Forum / Interface for Document
Created: September 27, 2012 - Last update: September 27, 2012
I would like to do some unittesting of a method taking a document as argument. If I was able to create a mock for the document it would make it much easier and I would be able to remove the dependency to the database. Are there any plans to create interfaces for the Document class? This would off c…
Type of document

Forum / Type of document
Created: September 29, 2016 - Last update: September 30, 2016
Hi, I would change the document type for the "The stater kit" with type: Text Page. I duplicated the type of document "Text Page1" ? But it does not work ? lamouriHi Lamouri, I would highly advise you to get an Umbraco.TV account and start watching the tutorial videos. I would just create a new…
link to document: #

Forum / link to document: #
Created: January 20, 2011 - Last update: January 23, 2011
Hi, I don't know what happened, but if I look in the properties of a content page, the links of my pages are gone, all pages now have a '#' for the 'link to document' value: link to document: # I have a Umbraco 4.5.2 installation. The only thing I know I did was that I restarted sql server Anyone el…
Language of a Document

Forum / Language of a Document
Created: November 07, 2011 - Last update: November 07, 2011
I'm making a search on my website and in the results I would like to show in which language the given result is writed in. Is there a way to track programmatically in which language a Document is written? Thijs
Download document

Forum / Download document
Created: December 22, 2015 - Last update: December 22, 2015
Hello, I have one page in that I have list of all documents. Now I want that on click of any document name That document should get download. I have that documents in media tree node. Guide me for this. Thank You, DipaHi Dipa, Do you any chance of share you code you have so far, where you are…
Document Upload

Forum / Document Upload
Created: March 02, 2011 - Last update: March 09, 2011
Hi there, I've uplaoded a document and it's now linked from about 20 pages. I'm now updating the file within that document, but it has a different file name. How can I force umbraco to link to the document and not to the actual file? Will I have to go through and re-link every reference to it? Thank…
Document Types

Forum / Document Types
Created: April 06, 2017 - Last update: April 06, 2017
This may be a really ridiculous question, but do you / should you have a new document type for each page of your website? My site is slow, so I am trying to figure out if things were set up correctly. Eg. Site has: homepage, about, articles, contactUs, and let's say 50 submenu pages. Would / shoul…
Node != Document ?

Forum / Node != Document ?
Created: March 13, 2013 - Last update: March 13, 2013
Hu guys, i have found the same propriety valued differently depending if the object is a node or a document.node.GetPropriety("photos") and document.GetPropriety("photos").The id is the same. how's that possible? I wrote this wiki a while ago which might help: http://our…
Link to document

Forum / Link to document
Created: March 29, 2011 - Last update: March 30, 2011
I just install a new instance of umbraco on my server but when i click on my properties tab "link to document" is empty or " / " instead if the real path Any help please fujiYou probably already checked this but it shouldn't be a plain virtual directory, needs to be configured an an…
update document

Forum / update document
Created: February 28, 2011 - Last update: February 28, 2011
int currentQuantity = Int32.Parse(currentDoc.getProperty("stock").Value.ToString());int total = currentQuantity - orderline.Quantity;currentDoc.getProperty("stock").Value = total.ToString();umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(currentDoc.Id); i use this code to update the stock value, the value is up…
Search for Document

Forum / Search for Document
Created: May 25, 2011 - Last update: May 26, 2011
I want to search for a document that has a property with a particular value. Document.GetChildrenBySearch looks like a good candidate but I have no idea what the searchString parameter should look like. Can I get an example or a pointer to where some documentation on it is? Thanks.…
Document Management

Forum / Document Management
Created: March 19, 2011 - Last update: March 25, 2011
Hi, On my site I need to have some basic document management where a user can upload a document (any type), set permissions on who can view it and have that document available on the website.. I have done something like this previously a few years ago using PHP when I made an image sharing website a…
Document Sorter

Developer tools / Packages / Our
Created: May 11, 2010 - Last update: December 14, 2023
SUMMARY This package automaticaly sorts nodes in either Alphabetical, Numerical or Date order. This package is ideal for things like news sections where you want documents to appear in date order, or a-z style pages where you want documents automcatialy sorted by name. HOW TO USE The package is…
Document Management

Forum / Document Management
Created: January 02, 2016 - Last update: February 14, 2022
I am new to Umbraco but already in love with it. Awesome product! My question revolves around my first solution that I am building with Umbraco which will be hosted in Azure, use Azure Storage/CND for Media and SQL Azure for CMS DB Store. My application at runtime will allow authenticated membe…
Document management

Forum / Document management
Created: November 23, 2016 - Last update: December 01, 2016
Hello chaps After building our website in this excellent system we are now building an intranet in Umbraco. Does anybody know of any document management solution extension in Umbraco or of one being developed? We need to do the usual DM functions: Upload, download, check-in/out, add meta fields, s…
Document Moved

Forum / Document Moved
Created: October 03, 2011 - Last update: October 11, 2011
Hi, I'm unable to move a revision from one site to the next. I get the following error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.Stack T…
Document_BeforeCopy

Forum / Document_BeforeCopy
Created: April 01, 2011 - Last update: April 01, 2011
Can someone confirm me that if I set the CANCEL = TRUE on the event that the Copy will not occur ? What happens with multiple node copy ? Is the event called for any node that need to be copied ? If we cancel the main document copy, are we sure that the other nodes won't be copied somehow ? …
Link to Document #

Forum / Link to Document #
Created: September 23, 2010 - Last update: February 07, 2011
Hi All First time, I've worked with the new version of Umbraco v 4.5.2 (Assembly version: 1.0.3891.20719). When I create any child pages from the home page. Under the properties tab the link to document shows as a #. When I click on the link, it opens up the main content panel…
Deactive a Document

Forum / Deactive a Document
Created: March 15, 2011 - Last update: March 15, 2011
Hi folks, I was wondering whether there was a default option in Umbraco to 'deactivate / activate' a document for a while ... I have not seen it in the backend UI right-mouse button menu ... Why you ask ? Well it would be nice to allow editors to temporarly deactivate published co…
Link to document //

Forum / Link to document //
Created: February 18, 2011 - Last update: February 18, 2011
Hi everyone, I've just noticed in the properties tab today that the link to document on my homepage is // When clicked on in the cms, this obviously doesn't load my homepage correctly. Is there a reason why this would have happened? I have tried republishing but no change. Shouldn't this link should…
Moving a document not updating "Link to document"

Forum / Moving a document not updating "Link to document"
Created: February 25, 2010 - Last update: July 12, 2011
Hi forum, hope someone has an idea on this one. I have a process where when a certain document type is published AND it sits in an "unreviewed" queue the node is published and moved to another "folder" (parent node). However, the link to the document still has the unreviewed parent node in it render…
Render document

Forum / Render document
Created: October 03, 2016 - Last update: August 01, 2017
Hello! I have created document (Content) with Id = 1234. How can I render it in another template (like widget)? Thanks.SOLVED!!! ======== For my case template, which I want to render must have Layout setted to null. And then I can call Umbraco.RenderTemplate(nodeId) to get html. Thanks.Okay, i th…
Document is empty

Created: October 25, 2013 - Last update: April 20, 2015
Hi there, I just installed the package on 4.11.3, but I get the following error. This page contains the following errors:error on line 1 at column 1: Document is emptyBelow is a rendering of the page up to the first error. here's the link: http://rentinreykjavik.com/googleSiteTree.aspx Do…
Document Types without "link to document"

Forum / Document Types without "link to document"
Created: June 24, 2009 - Last update: July 01, 2013
I'm doing document types, without a need for a seperate page!(like a gallery photo). They're rendered within the parent document type's template. The child types don't even have an own template assigned. But nevertheless Umbraco (v.4) generates a URL for them (although the page is empty). Is th…
Member permissions on a document by document basis

Forum / Member permissions on a document by document basis
Created: September 02, 2011 - Last update: September 06, 2011
I'm looking for a bit of guidance on the following scenario. Currently developing a site using the Umbraco membership whereby a member has access to one or many documents and its associated media (images, video, pdf, etc). The documents and media are not static, they are created when they are neede…
Document Webservice and special document properties

Forum / Document Webservice and special document properties
Created: January 01, 2010 - Last update: January 01, 2010
Hi, I've got a document type, which has atwo properties, on a custom data type (a dropdown list with color values), the second of type upload. How can I fill these properties via the DocumentService.. DocumentProperties = new ArrayOfDocumentProperty() { …
Linking to a document and showing a document title

Forum / Linking to a document and showing a document title
Created: October 26, 2010 - Last update: October 27, 2010
Hi All, I have a user question that was brought up and wondering if I could get some support with this. Currently we are uploading all of our PDF to umbraco. When we link them we have them pop up in a new window: The title bar pops up with the path of the pdf like so: Is there anyway to change that…
Changing Master Document Type on existing Document Type

Disable Delete / Website utilities / Packages / Our
Created: June 23, 2010 - Last update: June 23, 2010
Hi! When a new document is created, Umbraco permits to specify a master Document Type. If the master Document Type is not specified at that time, is it possible to change it once the Document Type has already been created? For example, would it be sufficient to drag&drop a document Type un…
How to get Document's Parent's Document Type Alias

Forum / How to get Document's Parent's Document Type Alias
Created: March 16, 2011 - Last update: March 17, 2011
I want to walk up a Document's parent tree looking for one of a certain DocumentType. Document's Parent property is a CMSNode object which doesn't seem to have anything indicating what document type it is. Is there a way to find the Parent's document type alias without having to instantiate a…
Categorising document types using other document types

Forum / Categorising document types using other document types
Created: February 02, 2012 - Last update: February 02, 2012
Hi, A scenario for you: I am writing a website that lists music albums. Each album is classified under each of the following categories: - Genre (Rock/Opera/Classical/etc)- Band (Nirvana/The Beatles/etc)- Decade of release (60s/70s/etc) Each of the items listed above is a document types, so I have f…
Document restoration in case of deleting wrong document type

Forum / Document restoration in case of deleting wrong document type
Created: June 06, 2011 - Last update: June 07, 2011
Hello, Have anyone met such a situation when the wrong document type was deleted, and the documents based on this document typed were deleted also? Is there any way to restore those documents? Thanks a lot, AndreiHi Andrei, Do you have anything in the Recycle Bin in the content section? Failing that…
Relating 2 document types on a third document type

Forum / Relating 2 document types on a third document type
Created: October 17, 2013 - Last update: October 17, 2013
Guys, I'm currently working on a system that lists products and stores. Products have properties such as packages. I have a document type called Package Item, where the user can add new items and on the Product document type I created a datatype so the user can check the packages that area available…
'#' in Document Type property - Document Types disappear

Simple search 4 uCommerce / Website utilities / Packages / Our
Created: May 13, 2010 - Last update: May 13, 2010
I accidentally added a document type property with a '#' at the start (#First Name) and now all the document types have disappeared from the tree. Is there a way i can get them back? v4.0.3 Thanks Aron Solved! I found the property in the umbracoNode table and took the # off. The doc…
List of another document type within document Type

Forum / List of another document type within document Type
Created: March 12, 2012 - Last update: March 12, 2012
I have tried searching but I cannot find anything that answers my question. I currently have a Document Type of "Staff member" which is contained beneath "Staff Department". I need another section on the site that will contain a "Services" Document Type. With this Document Type I would like on…
Document Type That add a set of Document types?

Forum / Document Type That add a set of Document types?
Created: August 04, 2010 - Last update: August 05, 2010
I was wondering if some one could point me in the right direction on where to start this project. I am wanting to create a Doc Type that add a set of new document types. So I have a rotating banner that I want to be able to go to the contentsection and select add new banner a…
Document Type Collection in Compositions

Forum / Document Type Collection in Compositions
Created: November 20, 2019 - Last update: November 20, 2019
I created one document type collection in compositions and added the parent composition in the home document type but I am unable to create an item of composition document. It is displaying only the parent document properties and not able to create items of child composition document. I know there…
document type picker-how to

Forum / document type picker-how to
Created: February 27, 2012 - Last update: February 27, 2012
hello I have installed the package Document_Type_Picker_0.1. Made one field in master document type of the type Document type picker. Now in content page I select document type I want. But on save it doesnot show me the properties of that document type.... so what exactly is the use of it... I want…
Document Type not Available in Compositions

Forum / Document Type not Available in Compositions
Created: July 07, 2016 - Last update: July 25, 2018
Hi all. Maybe a stupid question, but I have a couple of document types. I want to add SEO Fields to this document types. I created a document type without a template called "SEO Fields" i have seo tab there with a 2 fields. When I try to make an document type based on "SEO Fields" the "SEO Fields"…
NullReference in documentation of Document Types

Forum / NullReference in documentation of Document Types
Created: February 04, 2011 - Last update: February 04, 2011
The reason why I installed Concierge in the first place, was being able to see relations between document types. And what is the only thing that doens't work? The documentation of the document types! When clicking on the link Document Types, I get a nullreference exception in umbraco.library.Replace…
Deleting Document Type Template

Forum / Deleting Document Type Template
Created: May 12, 2016 - Last update: May 12, 2016
I have created a document type. I have created it with default template but I didn't need it. Now, I try to delete it but it get deleted successfully and saved however when returns to the document type, the template is still there. How can I get rid of the default template?Mehrdad Have you create…
Event Handler on Document Node

Forum / Event Handler on Document Node
Created: January 21, 2019 - Last update: February 14, 2019
Is there any event handler that trigger when click or open a Document node? Hi Priyanka, What are you trying to achieve? Would I be correct you are referring to opening a Document node in the backoffice for editing. Thanks Nik
Ordering document properties

Forum / Ordering document properties
Created: March 08, 2012 - Last update: March 08, 2012
Hi! I've tried to order the properties of some document types, but the order is not reflected in the document editor. Is this a known bug to be fixed? (Using 5.0.310.1 from nuget) Lars-Erik
Hierarchical Document Type Complexity

Forum / Hierarchical Document Type Complexity
Created: May 27, 2020 - Last update: May 28, 2020
Hi All, As per requirement we need to have a hierarchical document type structure in such way that any of the document type could refer to any document type. Here are some examples mentioned below of three document types (DocType1, DocTyp2 and DocType3) • Hierarchical Document type structure for…
Custom code for document type

Forum / Custom code for document type
Created: April 23, 2017 - Last update: May 21, 2017
Hello all, I'm relatively new to Umbraco and after going through all of the tutorials I managed to get my hands on, I still couldn't find an answer to my question - Is it possible in Umbraco to define a "constructor" for a document type, Regardless of its hierarchical position as a page of itself,…
Check if document is saved

Forum / Check if document is saved
Created: November 02, 2011 - Last update: November 02, 2011
Hi Guys, I need to check programmatically if the document is saved or not. I try to explain the scenario: I create the document that contain a custom dataType with button. When the user press the button my dataType must be check if the document is saved from the user before to proceed with operation…
Multiple Document Type Picker

Backoffice extensions / Packages / Our
Created: March 27, 2019 - Last update: December 14, 2023
Custom Umbraco datatype to enable editors to pick single or multiple Document Types from a list on a content node.
Document Type Composition and Archetype

Forum / Document Type Composition and Archetype
Created: February 25, 2016 - Last update: February 26, 2016
Hi, we built some Document Types in Umbraco 7.4.1 to compose them into other Document Types. One of those Document Types has got an Archetype property, which has required fields. Now the Document Type which uses that Document Type via composition can not be saved anymore. It seems that Archetype v…
Cannot move Document Types

Forum / Cannot move Document Types
Created: May 31, 2016 - Last update: September 30, 2016
I can't move or copy document types to another folder. The "Document Types" dropdown is empty. This is Umbraco 7.4.3. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: /media/upload/a13386a0-b236-4a7d-9db8-e8dac4c9a69c/move.jpgThanks Paul. I figured out that removing the **Master** element from the…
Adding Children for a Document

Website utilities / Packages / Our
Created: November 04, 2011 - Last update: November 04, 2011
Hi I want to manipulate a Document in runtime and need to add some children to the same. Is there any API exist to add children at run time to a Document Regards Arun +1. Check out this wiki for more info: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheats…
Document types and child nodes

Forum / Document types and child nodes
Created: February 10, 2010 - Last update: February 10, 2010
Hi, I'm new to Umbraco and just downloaded the version 4.03 I followed a video tutorial on documents types. There's something I just can't do. I created a document type as name "HTMLContent". This has 2 tabs with title, and description. Each tab has their property. In the "Structure" part i checked…
Document type to pdf

Forum / Document type to pdf
Created: January 30, 2019 - Last update: February 01, 2019
Dear all, looking for exporting a document type into pdf file. example page to be exported is attached ![enter image description here][1] [1]: /media/upload/7bd97d14-bd02-4c7d-8405-f488bc65a5d9/Capture.PNGYou can right-click a document type and export it. You'll get an xml file (.udt)
Document workflow management

Forum / Document workflow management
Created: January 23, 2018 - Last update: January 23, 2018
Hi, I am experimenting with Umbraco and would like to know if there is any out of the box functionality to manage document workflow. E.g: the document shuold go through various stages like, Submitted, Approved, Published, Not Published Any helpful documentation, or external links would be of h…
No umbraco document matches the url

Forum / No umbraco document matches the url
Created: November 22, 2012 - Last update: November 22, 2012
I'm using umbraco version 4.10.1 on asp.net 4.0 windows 7 IIS 7. I recieved this error when I click on the "linked to document link". Page not found No umbraco document matches the url 'http://localhost/MyWebsite/myarticle.aspx'. This page can be replaced with a custom 404. Check the docum…
Inherited document type issue

Forum / Inherited document type issue
Created: April 04, 2023 - Last update: April 04, 2023
Hi guys Going through a couple of tutorials. I create a document type. Once created I right click this document type and create a child document type. I see all the parent fields appear in the child document type. I add a new field on the child only. In my view page I write the below code v…
Prevalues from Dropdown on Document

Forum / Prevalues from Dropdown on Document
Created: March 24, 2011 - Last update: March 24, 2011
I need to get the selected items prevalue in a dropdown from a document. Dont know how.Try this: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbracolibrary/getprevalues
Document Types stays empty

Forum / Document Types stays empty
Created: September 07, 2011 - Last update: September 07, 2011
Hi all, After creating a new ducument type on the settings page by copying a existing one the document type seems to be crashed. Is there a way to find out where Document Types looks/link in Umbraco file? Even when I want to create a new document type the list is not what I expect, I can't fi…
document type is just gone

Forum / document type is just gone
Created: May 05, 2010 - Last update: May 05, 2010
Hi, is it a common thing that a document type is just gone? Here's the error I get when I click on a created document type named "homepage": Server Error in '/' Application. No node exists with id '1161' Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web r…
Document Type Usage

Collaboration / Packages / Our
Created: July 27, 2014 - Last update: December 14, 2023
Version 0.9.2 - Refresh-button added - Basic caching to improve performance ---------- Package for Umbraco 7.0.2+ The package enables you to easily see which document types are used. It lists all document types along with its content count. Adds a tab on the developer root page, showin…
Inherit document type

Forum / Inherit document type
Created: June 19, 2019 - Last update: June 24, 2019
Hello, Umbracians. I have a question, I wanted to inherit the same document type several times in another document typeHello, the answer from Alex is correct. To complete above answer, you can take a look at this to understand how compositions work: https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor…
Error when moving a document

Forum / Error when moving a document
Created: September 23, 2014 - Last update: September 23, 2014
When I move i document in the content tree I get an error message which says that I should look in the logs for details. The document is moved though when I reload the tree. The message in the log just indicates that the document has been moved. 2014-09-23 22:28:08,550 [19] INFO Umbraco.Core.…
Document Library functionality

Forum / Document Library functionality
Created: August 31, 2021 - Last update: August 31, 2021
Hi, I am new to Umbraco. Installed the starter kit for v9, I do not see an example of "basic" document library functionality. Is there a package out there that does this or even BETTER a working sample? Looking for something similar to Sharepoint document library functionality. Thanks in advance!…
Document Types storage

Forum / Document Types storage
Created: July 15, 2009 - Last update: July 16, 2009
Hello, I can't seem to find where the names of my Document Types are stored? I want to rename one of my Document Types becuase I came across the following bug: http://umbraco.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=23494 ThanksThe name is stored in the umbracoNode table (Text column). You th…
Document Type Tabs Are Blank

Forum / Document Type Tabs Are Blank
Created: July 02, 2009 - Last update: November 01, 2011
Hi, Except for Info all my document type tabs are blank. There is no content for Structure, Generic Properties or Tabs; no textboxes or button, nothing. Anyone else had this? How do I fix it, quickly? Mm.Just had the same problem. Recycling the application pool did the trick. Similar to…
Nesting Document Types

Forum / Nesting Document Types
Created: July 24, 2013 - Last update: July 24, 2013
Hi We have recently upgraded an existing site to 6.1 but we are having trouble getting the document types to nest under each other. We have a master page with a tab that we wish to be inherited across some child document types, but when we drag the child document type node underneath the master docu…
Duplicate Document Type Property

Forum / Duplicate Document Type Property
Created: April 11, 2012 - Last update: April 11, 2012
Hi, I have a document type in which I have 5 properties, is there a way to duplicate these properties within the same document type so that everything is the same except for the name and alias? Thanks SPerfect, went for the quick and dirty xml editing. Thanks for the quick reply.Hi Simon, I as…
How to get current document.

Forum / How to get current document.
Created: August 08, 2009 - Last update: August 10, 2009
If i use the node factory i can do something like node.getcurrent to get the current node. How can i get the current document using the document API ? There is no document.getcurrent method or similar, as far as i cab see. I need to use the document API because this code works with unpublished nodes…
GroupDocs Document Assembly Plugin

Collaboration / Packages / Our
Created: December 21, 2012 - Last update: December 14, 2023
With this plugin you can easily collect data entered by users through online forms on your Umbraco website and then automatically incorporate that data into your document templates. It will allow you to automate the process of generating standard business documents, such as contracts, invoices, qu…
Document types and templates

Forum / Document types and templates
Created: November 27, 2009 - Last update: November 27, 2009
Hey, I could use some help with defining the document types and templates for the site www.mandjes.nl. I developed this site and build my own CMS for it a year ago. You are not surprised if I say that the CMS I build is less mature then Umbraco. That's the reason I want to develop this sit…
Change Document Type Parent

Forum / Change Document Type Parent
Created: April 03, 2015 - Last update: December 14, 2016
I want to change a document type's parent. This is not possible in the UI (I can set other Document Type Compositions, but the check box showing the document type's parent is greyed out). I've looked in the database and see there is table called cmsContentType, which lists the document types. Som…
Can't Delete Document Type

Forum / Can't Delete Document Type
Created: June 03, 2014 - Last update: October 13, 2015
With the following error: Server error: Contact administrator, see log for full details.Failed to delete item 1066 Has anyone else experience this? -AmirI don't see this as an issue at issues.umbraco.org, should it be? Deleting all properties before deleting a document type does work, bu…
uComponents uQuery Document Extension

Forum / uComponents uQuery Document Extension
Created: November 01, 2011 - Last update: November 01, 2011
I'm trying to find the next sibling of a document. It needs to be a document and not a node. I've seen that there is an extension method within uComponents that seems to do exactly that, IEnumerable<Document> GetFollowingSiblingDocuments() [v2.3] However there's a few things I don…
How to validate a document

Forum / How to validate a document
Created: May 17, 2011 - Last update: May 19, 2011
I have a document that I would like to validate as a whole before it is published. For instance one bit of validation I need to do is make sure one of the document's children has atleast one child under it. The question is where can I inject my validation logic and be able to provide feedback…
Document Type Picker for v7

Backoffice extensions / Packages / Our
Created: June 25, 2014 - Last update: December 14, 2023
The Document Type Picker package allows editors to choose a list of Document Types to be saved against a content page. This could be used for things like site map exclusions or navigation lists. The current version of this package is only compatible with version 7 of Umbraco. If you'd like to contr…
problem with the templates and document types

Forum / problem with the templates and document types
Created: November 14, 2018 - Last update: November 15, 2018
Hi, I have I masterpage template, 1 homepage and few others. In the document types I have home document type containing header and footer and several others without header and footer. Header and footer are placed in the masterpage template and are to be accessed from everywhere. Is this possible ap…
Word document version?

Created: July 12, 2016 - Last update: June 29, 2017
Greetings. The v4 and v6 manual's were also available in Word document format. It would be great to have a Word document format for the v7 manual, too. https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/editors-manualThis would also be helpful to us so we don't have to do document conversion firs…
Contour Document types issue

Forum / Contour Document types issue
Created: August 04, 2014 - Last update: August 04, 2014
Hi, I have just installed Courier and connected it to my version locally. When i have transfered the site to the local version one document types don't seem to have come through properly. For instance i have a document type called mainContent on my masterpage and that page has content in it., but t…
Document property enheritance

Forum / Document property enheritance
Created: April 15, 2012 - Last update: April 23, 2012
Hi there Something new and akward struck me today. I've used umbraco for 2 years now and i did not know that document properties could be enherited!? Today i spent 2 hours just recreating properties for new document types :( Would anyone be so kind to explain how this works? I guess it must be the n…
Model to Document Type

Forum / Model to Document Type
Created: March 16, 2012 - Last update: March 28, 2012
Hi all, Is there a way to convert your Model to a document type in v5? For example: public class News { public int Id { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public string Body { get; set; } } Or is this not the w…
Request: Search by Document Type

Prettify4Umbraco / Website utilities / Packages / Our
Created: January 21, 2010 - Last update: January 21, 2010
For the Search in Umbraco (in the CMS, not on the published site) it would be great if you could choose to search only specific document types. If there was a drop down to the right of the search box that listed all of the document types so you could choose one or had a "Search All Documents" option…
Document Type Picker

Backoffice extensions / Packages / Our
Created: May 20, 2011 - Last update: December 14, 2023
Document Type Picker datatype that enables back office user to select one or many document types. Lots of people asking why you might need to do this? e.g. Enabling a back office user to select content types that they want to include in an RSS feed. Developed by Auros! (shout out to Benjamin Howa…
Inherited Document Types - Issues

Forum / Inherited Document Types - Issues
Created: February 01, 2013 - Last update: February 01, 2013
v6.0.0.0 I've having a very difficult time with inherited document types. In fact, they don't seem to be working at all. For instance, I create a master that has a few tabs and properties, then the root node which is based on one of these won't save saying a 3rd party component is cancelling t…
Document Type Shared Values

Forum / Document Type Shared Values
Created: January 06, 2021 - Last update: January 06, 2021
In Umbraco 8 is there any way to create a property on a document type that has a single value shared by all instantiated documents? My use case is that I am trying to sync Umbraco content with another system (document type == table). My hope was to let non-developers define the table to sync to whe…
This document is published but is not in the cache

Forum / This document is published but is not in the cache
Created: May 11, 2020 - Last update: May 18, 2020
My child pages dont seeem to be viewable, when I go to the backend I see This document is published but is not in the cache any ideas?Do you see any errors in log file?
Changing document type inheritance

Forum / Changing document type inheritance
Created: August 23, 2011 - Last update: July 06, 2017
I want to change my document type to inherit from a different source. Is there a standard way to do that, or is there maybe a hacking way to do it (like editing the DB or config)?Yeah, but what about document types which are inherited from the one you want to delete? And their actual pages, de…
Document type compositions

Forum / Document type compositions
Created: September 19, 2016 - Last update: September 19, 2016
Hello, everyone! How can I get document types (which were selected through "Compositions"), which compose current page? Thanks!SOLVED! ======================================================== All I need to do is to check CurrentPage.ContentType.CompositionAliases for specific composition ali…
UaaS document type deployment

Forum / UaaS document type deployment
Created: May 09, 2016 - Last update: May 10, 2016
Hello, We are currently deploying our document types using GIT Push so that the .courier files are deployed on our staging environment from our development environment. Once this is done, nothing really happens i.e all changes we have done in the document types do not appear in the Umbraco back-of…
Documentation outdated? (Document-Types)

Forum / Documentation outdated? (Document-Types)
Created: April 08, 2016 - Last update: April 08, 2016
Hi there, I am currently going through the documentation, but meanwhile creating a Document type the documentation does not match: https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoDocs/blob/master/Tutorials/Creating-Basic-Site/Document-Types.md Or is there an updated v7 documentation?Hi Kevin, We know this, a…
Programmaticaly create document node

Forum / Programmaticaly create document node
Created: February 03, 2012 - Last update: February 04, 2012
Hi, This is the first time I need to programmaticaly create a document node from a user control (.ascx). As this is the first time I'm doing this, I'm looking for some good demo code or documentation. Does anyone know where I can find this? Thanks for your help, AnthonyHi Jan, This is exactly what I…
Deleted Document Type - Help

Forum / Deleted Document Type - Help
Created: August 11, 2011 - Last update: August 11, 2011
The document type for the root node/content page was accidently deleted. The entire content tree is now gone. I attempted to recreate the document type but that didn't help. I see data for other document types still exist is there a way for me to recover the site? Ok I've restored a backup to…
Walking the Document tree hierarchy

Forum / Walking the Document tree hierarchy
Created: March 16, 2011 - Last update: March 17, 2011
I find myself needing to walk up and down the document tree looking for certain types of documents frequently. For instance lets say I have a tree that looks like this: Client A Event List Event A Participants Event B Participants Client B ..... If I am on the participants…
Afterpublish get document url

Forum / Afterpublish get document url
Created: July 23, 2009 - Last update: July 19, 2010
I am having some trouble with the document.afterpublish event. I created a user control that allows users to create documents using the API, this all works perfect. What I am trying to do is create an email when the document is published to notify the user that we published their document, again thi…
Page count document tree

Developer tools / Packages / Our
Created: January 04, 2015 - Last update: December 14, 2023
This is a utility to show an unordered list of all content nodes, the associated document type, and a count of child nodes. If you are doing a site migration and want to know how large a site or part of a site is, this tool will be helpful.
No document exists with id

Forum / No document exists with id
Created: May 28, 2014 - Last update: May 28, 2014
One document and its children in our Umbraco site won't get transferred by Courier. From the frontend everything looks like it works - it completes and there is no error. The top level document is transferred but none of the children. We have tried transferring directly from the content secti…
check document type structure

Forum / check document type structure
Created: December 26, 2011 - Last update: December 29, 2011
hello everyone. i need to check if some node document type is children/grandchild of other document type ( not in content section , in setting section ) , it is possible? hope it is clear. thanks in advance.hii. ok , so - HasProperty make the job... Do not know why I had trouble with it Thanks.Wow,…
Document Management system

Forum / Document Management system
Created: February 21, 2017 - Last update: April 25, 2019
Hi, Does anyone know of a great Document Management system for Umbraco 7.5? Thanks JonI know people have done sharepoint integrations i have also seen custom built document management extensions however not as packages. Anything more on this?Did anyone manage this?I'd also be interested to hear w…
Getting IPublishedContent by Document Type

Forum / Getting IPublishedContent by Document Type
Created: May 25, 2015 - Last update: June 11, 2015
Hi guys, currently I get a node by it's document type in the following way: public IPublishedContent GetPage(string documentType) { var page = umbracoHelper.TypedContentSingleAtXPath("//" + documentType); if (page != null) { return page; } …
Event Registration, Document obsolete?

Forum / Event Registration, Document obsolete?
Created: October 17, 2013 - Last update: October 17, 2013
Hi there, I'm registering some events for my umbraco installation and followed the example for umbraco 6.1.0+ here. But "Document" is underlined (or in the build output) in my Visual Studio solution as "obsolete", so I was wondering if this will affect something. Eventually it would be good to have…