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Asked: 2026-06-12T07:22:57+00:00

Umbraco newbie of course.. I have some code that returns a certain data type

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Umbraco newbie of course..

I have some code that returns a certain data type contents for a given node id which is detailed here:

umbraco API: trying to get the document type data for a given site node

That works fine, however I have to know the starting node i.e. in my case the site node id (multi-site umbraco installation).

I also know you can get the master root node via:

Umbraco – Finding Root Node in C#

My question is this…

From the backend API, is there anyway to dynamically get the current site node ID (first link)? this is so I don’t have to know it in advance. I think there is an option to get the site id from a querystring.. Page.Request.QueryString[“id”] however I am guessing this is returned if the page is a template page, however this is from a backend class?

Is there anyway? or I am barking up the wrong tree! ??

Any help would be appreciated!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming that all of your rootnodes are of the same document type, in razor you could do something like this:

    var folderId = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(“MyFolderType”).Id;

    which will search from the current node ‘up’ or ‘backwards’ until it gets to a nodetype of the type specified.

    another way is available here:

    http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/20742-Getting-the-home-node-using-c

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