How can we to access value of umbraco dictionary item from Javascript

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Can we access Umbraco Dictionary item value from JavaScript ?

As I am using Umbraco 6.0.5

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3 Answers

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votes

No, you can't do it out-of-the-box.

I had to do this multiple times, and the best way I came up with, is to print all dictionary items as an object when the page loads (in <head> or something). Of curse only items for the current language.

So in your source you have

<script>
    var dic = {"quantity":"Quantity","totalPrice":"Total price","securePayment":"Secure payment"};
</script>

And then get is as

window.dic["quantity"]
1
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As far as I know, you can't do it out of the box - haven't actually tried, though.

I would first create a simple rest service in my website that returns the Umbraco dictionary item using a querystring parameter as the alias value

var alias = HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["alias"]
if(alias != null)
{
    var dictionaryItem = umbraco.GetDictionaryItem(alias) 
    ...
}

Then call your own webservice through javascript to get the value

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What I have done is declare variable in using Javascript 

<script type="text/javascript">    
    var UmbracoDicKeyValue = '<%= kraftvaerk.umbraco.Translations.translate("Umbraco_Dic_Key", lang) %>';
</script>

And for setting value of lang variable from server side.

protected string lang = (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(umbraco.library.Session("lang")) ? umbraco.library.Session("lang") : "en-GB");
umbraco.library.setSession("lang", lang);

Now use variable UmbracoDicKeyValue in javascript code.