Hi.

You could:

• Make a Document Type with a property "bodyText"

• Create a template for that Document Type with MasterPage set to "None" to display that property and nothing else. like this:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<umbraco:Item field="bodyText" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>

• Create a usercontrol GeneratePagesFromWebservice.ascx that calls your webservice and creates new documents, inserting the xhtml in the "bodyText" property.

Is this more or less what you're looking for or did I misunderstood your requirements?

Hi Thomas

Many thanks. I think this  ie pretyt much it I suppose. I will try this and will get back to you.

Cheers

Faiyaz

For your reference, here's an example of how you would add the documents:

// Get the Root User (user with Id 0)
User user = umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetUser(0);

// Get the Document Type with the alias 'importedPage'
DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("importedPage");

List<ImportedPage> pages = GetPagesFromWebService();

foreach(var page in pages)
{
    // Make a new Document
    Document doc = Document.MakeNew(page.Title, dt, user, ParentPageId);

    // Publish the Document
    doc.getProperty("bodyText").Value = page.Xhtml;

    //Mark document as publishable
    doc.Publish(user);

    // Publish the document
    umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(doc.Id);
}

Thanks Thomas

Faiyaz

Hi Thomas

Can we programatically create folders as well in umbraco ?

for example

home/portals/long-term-conditions.aspx

"portals" is the folder.

Thanks

Faiyaz

Portals would be a document so it would be created the same way

Hi Thomas

Can we programatically create folders as well in umbraco ?

for example

home/portals/long-term-conditions.aspx

"portals" is the folder.

Thanks

Faiyaz

Thanks Daniel

Faiyaz

There is no such thing as a "document folder" in Umbraco.

You can build a hiarchy with child and parent documents, much like how an XML file looks like.

If you want to group documents under an "empty" document, you could just make another Document Type for that. Call it "Document Container" and don't add any properties to it.

Also consider what you want to happen when the user goes to home/portals in his browser address bar. You could easily call an XSLT in the Document Container's template that lists all child documents, for example. (See Developer Area > Right-click XSLT files > create a new XSLT file and look at the built-in templates)

... and add documents as children of the parent ("folder") document

Thanks very much both

Very helpful.

Faiyaz

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