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Sitefinity’s OData web services expose a single endpoint that allows querying data from Sitefinity CMS sitemap. Such data can be used to construct navigation widgets. The navigation widget in Sitefinity .NET Core renderer uses this endpoint.

IMPORTANT: The following endpoint is designed to support .NET Core development only. You cannot use the endpoint for MVC development.
For a comparison on using .NET Core vs using MVC framework, see Development comparison.

NOTE: This endpoint does not require authentication.

To use the endpoint, execute a POST request to the following endpoint:

{baseurl}/api/default/pages/Default.HierarhicalByLevelsResponse()

Sample request

POST http://mysite.com/api/default/pages/Default.HierarhicalByLevelsResponse()

Sample response

There are query parameters that can be added to this request. For example:

  • selectionModeString can have one of the following values:
    • TopLevelPages
      This will force the request to take only the root level pages’ data. This is the default case.
    • SelectedPages works in conjunction with selectedPages to take only the explicitly stated pages’ data.
    • CurrentPageSiblings works in conjunction with sf_page_node
      It returns only the data for the sibling pages of the currently targeted page by the sf_page_node parameter.
    • CurrentPageChildren works in conjunction with sf_page_node
      It returns only the data for the child pages of the currently targeted page by the sf_page_node parameter.
    • SelectedPageChildren works in conjunction with selectedPageId
      It returns only the data for the child pages of the currently targeted page by the selectedPageId parameter.
  • showParentPage shows information about the parent page
    This parameters is a Boolean.
  • selectedPageId returns the GUID of a page node
  • selectedPages returns the GUID array of page node IDs
  • sf_page_node returns the GUID of a page node

The following example uses some of the above query parameters:

Sample request (with query parameters)

POST http://mysite.com/api/default/pages/Default.HierarhicalByLevelsResponse()?selectionModeString=SelectedPages&showParentPage=False&selectedPageId=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&selectedPages=["b5cb445c-bb30-4169-9476-422a1daf3df5","45b8578a-0184-456c-9f0d-68843df4af64","882c78d7-dc3a-4934-998f-2eeae074459f"]&sf_page_node=882c78d7-dc3a-4934-998f-2eeae074459f

Sample response

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