# Get all locations of an item

`ContentLocationService` API registers all locations of an item in the database. You can access them by calling the `GetItemLocations()` method of the `ContentLocationService`. It has two overloads that you can use depending on your use case scenario.

## Get an item's location by its details 

You can get the item locations when you do not have the data item, but you know its details - `ID`, `Type`, `ProviderName`. \
In this case, you can use the overload of the `GetItemLocations()`  method that takes as parameters the content item’s `Type` , `ProviderName` , `ID` , and `Culture`  (for multilingual) and returns an enumeration of `IContentItemLocation`  objects. These are all the locations where the specified item can be opened. If there is no location, the `GetItemLocations()`  method returns an empty collection.

The following code sample gets all locations of a news item by its ID:

```C#
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.News;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services;

namespace Telerik.Sitefinity.Documentation.CodeSnippets.DevGuide.HowTo.ContentLocationsAPI
{
   public partial class ContentLocationsAPI
   {
       public static List<string> GetNewsItemLocationsById()
       {
           List<string> result = new List<string>();
           string newsName = "test-news";
           var contentType = typeof(NewsItem);
           var newsManager = NewsManager.GetManager();
           string newsProviderName = newsManager.Provider.Name;

           //Create a news item (no location yet).
           var newsItem = CreateNews(newsManager);

           //gets the item locations using an instance from locationsService
           var locationsService = SystemManager.GetContentLocationService();
           var newsLocations = locationsService.GetItemLocations(contentType, newsManager.Provider.Name, newsItem.Id);

           foreach (var location in newsLocations)
           {
               //get all URLs of the item (even the default one)      
               result.Add(location.ItemAbsoluteUrl);
           }
           return result;
       }
   }
}

```

## Get an item's locations by a reference

You can get the item locations when you have a reference to the item. In this case, you use the `GetItemLocations(IDataItem item, CultureInfo culture = null)` overload that takes as parameter the actual `IDataItem` and as optional parameter - the desired culture. It returns an enumeration of `IContentItemLocation` objects. If there are no locations, it returns an empty collection.

The following code sample gets all locations where a news item is published:

```C#
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.News;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services;

namespace Telerik.Sitefinity.Documentation.CodeSnippets.DevGuide.HowTo.ContentLocationsAPI
{
   public partial class ContentLocationsAPI
   {
       public static List<string> GetNewsItemLocations()
       {
           List<string> result = new List<string>();
           string newsName = "test-news";
           var contentType = typeof(NewsItem);
           var newsManager = NewsManager.GetManager();
           string newsProviderName = newsManager.Provider.Name;

           //Create a news item (no location yet).
           var newsItem = CreateNews(newsManager);

           //gets the item locations using an instance from locationsService
           var locationsService = SystemManager.GetContentLocationService();
           var allLocations = locationsService.GetItemLocations(newsItem);

           foreach (var location in allLocations)
           {
               //get all URLs of the item (even the default one)
               result.Add(location.ItemAbsoluteUrl);
           }
           return result;
       }

       public static NewsItem CreateNews(NewsManager manager)
       {
           var newsItem = manager.CreateNewsItem();
           string title = "news-item";
           newsItem.Title.Value = title;
           newsItem.UrlName.Value = title;
           manager.RecompileItemUrls(newsItem);
           manager.Lifecycle.Publish(newsItem);
           manager.SaveChanges();
           return newsItem;
       }
   }
}

```