Umbraco 15 - How to get block alias in a BlockGrid sidebars property editor

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When adding/editing a block to the blockgrid, the sidebar opens with all the blocktypes properties. But I cant find what the alias of the block?

Im creating a custom property editor and need to know which block type im on?

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Hello Jesper.

I think I am also trying to find the answer to this (Retrieving the alias of a block in a custom property editor)

I have been trying to look through the different Context’s that are available, but so far I can’t find out what I need to use to get the alias of the block that you’re currently editing.

I am hoping it’ll be slightly easier for us to find, because in previous versions (13), I was having to do this:

"let alias = $scope.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.$parent.model.content.contentTypeAlias;"

Will let you know if I find anything.

Thanks,
Rob

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Hi Rob. Yes thats the Umbraco 13 way. I’ll update you as soon as we find a solution. I think there’s a way using the block uid to look it up but …

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Hello Jesper.

I haven’t tested it properly and I am not too sure of how much of a long term solution it is as I am sure there is (or will be) a better way in the future.. but.

What I am currently doing to get the alias of the Block that you’re editing is the following:


import { UMB_BLOCK_WORKSPACE_CONTEXT } from "@umbraco-cms/backoffice/block";

constructor() {
    super();

        this.consumeContext(UMB_BLOCK_WORKSPACE_CONTEXT, (instance) => {
            this.observe(instance.content.structure.contentTypeAliases, (aliases) => {
                 
                // Get the alias, which is the first item returned in this aliases array.
                console.log(aliases[0]);

            });
        });
};

“aliases” will return an array of other aliases, but I believe it’s the first item every time that we’d be interested in.

Note - I am using the latest version, 16. 0.0.

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Hi Robert,

I’ll try this out. Sure seems complicatied :slight_smile:

best
jesper