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David F. Hill 122 posts 242 karma points

Oct 31, 2015 @ 01:10
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Create a new Member Type programatically

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Umbraco 7
Would anyone have an example of how to create a new Member Type using the MemberType service? I've seen this:
```
    public void CreateMemberType(IContentTypeComposition parent, string memberTypeAlias)
{
        IMemberType memberType = new Umbraco.Core.Models.MemberType(parent, memberTypeAlias);
        ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MemberTypeService.Save(memberType);
}
```
I don't know how to get or assign the "parent".

I just want to create the new member type in "Member Types".

Thanks, David
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Marc Goodson 2136 posts 14297 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Nov 01, 2015 @ 12:01
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Hi David

Yes, a MemberType inherits from ContentTypeCompositionBase and so this means it has the same concept of being able to create a new MemberType inheriting properties from an existing MemberType. Hence the constructor for MemberType (from the base) allowing you to pass in a Parent ContentTypeComposition, to inherit from.

In the backoffice if you create a new MemberType, then it does not create this type underneath an existing ContentTypeComposition - and there is no GUI to allow you to do this.

And if you do happen to do this in code then you get a message in the back office when you create your Child MemberType that says:

Master Content Type enabled This Content Type uses '[masterContentTypeAliashere]' as a Master Content Type. Tabs from Master Content Types are not shown and can only be edited on the Master Content Type itself

So what is the trick ? - well there is a convention in Umbraco that if you want to create an item at the top of a tree, then you specify the parent as having id -1

So in your circumstance you should be able to use something like:
```
  var mts = Services.MemberTypeService;
            var timeStamp = DateTime.Now.Ticks;
            var newMemberType = new MemberType(-1);
            newMemberType.Alias = "MT" + timeStamp;
            newMemberType.Name = "MT" + timeStamp;
            mts.Save(newMemberType);
```
To create your new MemberType, without any inherited parents, as it would appear if you created it via the backoffice.
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David F. Hill 122 posts 242 karma points

Nov 01, 2015 @ 18:28
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Thanks, Marc, for that great explanation. It helped me and I'm sure it will help other Umbracians as well.

For some reason it didn't occur to me to "new up" a MemberType and then assign the alias in a separate operation.

Currently, there are three overloads for the MemberType constructor:
```
public MemberType(IContentTypeComposition parent);
public MemberType(int parentId);
public MemberType(IContentTypeComposition parent, string alias);
```
Seems like a fourth constructor that would be helpful would be this:
```
public MemberType(int parentId, string alias);
```
That would allow us to do in one line.

Maybe there's a pull request in my future.

Cheers, David
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