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For developers: Getting ancestor items under specified folder (6.3 and below)


The following example demonstrates how to get the ancestor items under specified folder:

public static IQueryable<MediaContent> GetAncestorItems()
        {
            //gets an isntance of the LibrariesManager
            var manager = LibrariesManager.GetManager();
 
            //creates an image album
            var imagesAlbum = manager.CreateAlbum();
            imagesAlbum.Title = "ImageAlbumTitle1";
            manager.SaveChanges();
 
            //creates a folder under the album
            var folder = manager.CreateFolder(imagesAlbum);
            var folderId = folder.Id;
            folder.Title = "FolderTitle";
            manager.SaveChanges();
 
            //creates an image in the album and assigns the folder to the image
            //by using the FolderId property
            var image = manager.CreateImage();
            image.Title = "imageTitle";
            image.FolderId = folderId;
            manager.SaveChanges();
 
            //creates another folder under the album
            var folder1 = manager.CreateFolder(imagesAlbum);
            folder1.Title = "ChildFolderTitle1";
 
            //changes the folder of the image
            manager.ChangeItemFolder(image, folder1);
 
            //gets all the ancestors of the album
            var ancestors = manager.GetAncestorItems(imagesAlbum);
            return ancestors;
        }

 In this example we create an album first by CreateAlbum method of LibrariesManager through the Native API.
For more information check For developers: Create image libraries. Then we are creating a folder under the album by using CreateFolder method and the album as a parameter. For more info go to For developers: Create folders inside libraries. Then we create an image under the folder through the native API. For more info go to For developers: Create images. Next we create another folder. Then we change the parent of the image to be the second folder. This is achieved by the ChangeItemFolder method of the LibrariesManager. It requires the image and the new folder as a parameters. Finally you can get all ancestor items under the album using the GetAncestorItems method. This method requires the folder as a parameter and returns a collection of all ancestors under it.

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