Retrieve custom field from image
Hello all,
I have created a custom field for my images called "image order" that will be used to do an independent ordering of images in a custom control. My question is: how can I get that value out of the database? I have a general setup that works (using the fluent API) but it doesn't return the custom fields. Below is the code that will retrieve the images out of the Album that I want (minus the custom fields).
var list = App.WorkWith().Albums().Where(a => a.Title == "Promos").Get().FirstOrDefault().Images.Where( i => i.Status == ContentLifecycleStatus.Live);Hello Bryan,
Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image has extension method GetValue which you can use to get the value of the custom field you have created. You should add reference to Telerik.Sitefinity.Model.DataExtensions to use GetValue.
Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team
Thank you very much for the quick reply. In reading a couple of the other posts about Custom Fields, I could see that using GetValue would be the way to go, but when I try to import the Telerik.Sitefinity.Model.DataExtensions namespace I am getting an error.
In my project I have a reference to Telerik.Sitefinity.Model as well as several other Sitefinity specific dll's (all taken from my installation of the Sitefinity CMS libraries folder). It is strange that I am not able to access that namespace at all.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Tim
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EDIT:
I figured out this issue I was having (sort of) and this is how I access the custom field now:
var imageOrder = Telerik.Sitefinity.Model.DataExtensions.GetValue(image, "ImageOrder");