Get content from outside sitefinity

Hello,

I am having some issues and turning to the community for help.

I am able to get some content through a different app, although I get a bit of a odd behaviour.
I can actually get the shared content items no problem, but as what I am trying to do is getting all types of content, for some reason this does not work.

For example, this works without a problem and gets me the shared control items (although I want the non shared ones as well).
 var controls = App
                        .WorkWith()
                        .ContentItems()
                        .Where(c => c.Status == Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model.ContentLifecycleStatus.Live)
                        .Get();

The odd part is that the following does not work as I am also unable to connect to anything related to pages.
var pageNodes = App
                        .WorkWith()
                        .Pages()
                        .Where(pN => (pN.Page != null && pN.Page.Status == ContentLifecycleStatus.Live))
                        .Get();

So I have tried different things within a widget and that worked fine: e.g.
 public static List<ControlData> GetContentItems(string pageTitle, string placeHolder)
        
            var pageManager = PageManager.GetManager();
            var page = pageManager.GetPageNodes().Where(p => p.Title == pageTitle).SingleOrDefault();
            var controls = page.Page.Controls.Where(c => c.PlaceHolder == placeHolder).ToList<ControlData>();
            
            return controls;
        
The code above returns all the controls if used within a widget, but that code simply does not work within the external app. All the references seem to be correct. Is there  a limitation on the architecture of sitefinity to get this externally?

As anyone seen this type of behaviour? Any examples/help would be much appreciated as I am really stuck.

Many thanks for your help as I am really stuck!

Ricardo

Hello Ricardo,

Sitefinity API can`t be executed from external application that is not sitefinity the API needs the configuration files from App_Data/Sitefinity/Configuration folder, sitefinity services in Sitefinity/Services folder, web.config, basically all sitefinity related files that execute the web services and communication with the database where the data is stored. I am not sure if you have sitefinity assemblies placed for example in console application or another C# project from where the API is executed.

The concrete approach is to create a web service that utilizes sitefinity API and executes it in sitefinity then sends the result to another application.

Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
Telerik