Using the ContentService

you can use the content service to create new content, save/publish or sort, move, publish, unpublish or do any of the other things the backoffice allows you to do.

after injecting the ContentService into your controller, you can do the following to create new content:

var viewModel = await contentService.Create<Page>(parentId, "en-gb",nodeName,published:true);
await contentService.SaveContent(viewModel);

you can use Create<T> to first make a new instance of your ViewModel. you could actually create a new instance of your ViewModel directly without using Create<T> but then you'd have to set a bunch of properties yourself rather than letting the create method do it for you. note that if you don't supply the template argument to the Create<T> method and you haven't set the Allowed Templates for your ViewModel in the settings section of the backoffice, it will throw an error. if you had set the Allowed Templates, it would be able to pick the first allowed template from the list and set the template to that. so make sure you either provide the template argument or set the Allowed Templates in the settings section.

SaveContent<T> is used to create, save and publish your ViewModels. if your ViewModel's Published property is set to true, it will publish.