Umbraco: Retrieving common page URLs

Umbraco: Retrieving common page URLs

Matthew Boniface | 16/12/2011

On a current Umbraco CMS website project I found the need to create an effective method for looking up commonly used important pages without requiring their Umbraco PageIDs.

I wanted the ability to, from anywhere, easily call for the URL for pages like “Home”, “Login” or “My Profile”. After exploring various options I settled on what I believe is a tidy way to tackle this challenge.

I created an enum for the Umbraco “Document Types” that we want to reference:

These need to match exactly to their respective Document Type’s Alias that you specified in Umbraco settings.

That’s the easy part, now needed a way to look up that document type. Turns out that’s pretty easy with Umbraco’s 

Now the final touch to retrieve that node's URL:

It is now very trivial to get, for example, the forgotten password page URL from anywhere by just calling:

tags: Web Development