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For developers: Get the default location of an item

You can get an item's default location by using the overloads of GetItemDefaultLocation method in one of the following ways.

PREREQUISITES: The default location of an item must be a page that is accessible by all users, that is, they have permissions to view it.

Get the default location of an item by its details 

To do this, you use the GetItemDefaultLocation(Type itemType, string itemProvider, Guid itemId, CultureInfo culture = null) overload.
This overload gets the default (canonical) location by specifying the item type, the item’s provider, and the item ID. This method is useful when you have no reference to the actual content item. It returns an IContentItemLocation item that contains the following information:

  • The absolute URL of the item
  • The PageId where the item can be opened
  • The SiteId, which is the ID of the site which the page belongs to.
  • The IsDefault Boolean flag that is set to true, indicating that this a default location. 

If there is no location where an item can be opened, the method returns null.

The following code sample gets the default location of a news item:

Get the default location of an item by a reference

To do this, you use the GetItemDefaultLocation(IDataItem item, CultureInfo culture = null) overload.

This overload gets the default (canonical) location of type IContentItemLocation, where the specified IDataItem can be opened. This method can be used when there is a reference to the actual content item. It returns an IContentItemLocation item or null if there is no location for item of that type, provider, and language (for multilingual).

The following code sample gets the default location of a news item:

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