One thing you can try doing is using the TDSE.GetListTemplateTypes()
method. This will return an xml string that contains all of the template types. You could then search for the node that matches your ID
, and get the Title
attribute from that node.
The returned XML of GetListTemplateTypes
will look something like:
<tcm:ListTemplateTypes xmlns:tcm="http://www.tridion.com/ContentManager/5.0">
<tcm:Item ID="4" Name="CompoundTemplate" Title="Compound Template" MIMEType="text/x-tcm-compound" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="ComponentTemplate">tctcmp</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="PageTemplate">tptcmp</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbcmp</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="3" Name="XSLT" Title="XSLT" MIMEType="text/xml" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="ComponentTemplate">tctx</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbx</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="5" Name="AssemblyTemplate" Title=".NET Assembly" MIMEType="application/x-tcm-assembly" HasBinaryContent="true">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbasm</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="6" Name="CSharpTemplate" Title="C# Code Fragment" MIMEType="text/x-tcm-csharpfragment" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbcs</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="7" Name="DreamweaverTemplate" Title="Dreamweaver" MIMEType="text/x-tcm-dreamweaver" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">dwt</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="8" Name="RazorTemplate" Title="RazorTemplate" MIMEType="text/x-tcm-cshtml" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">cshtml</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="1" Name="VBScript" Title="VBScript [Legacy]" MIMEType="text/plain" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="ComponentTemplate">tcts</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="PageTemplate">tpts</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbs</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
<tcm:Item ID="2" Name="JScript" Title="JScript [Legacy]" MIMEType="text/plain" HasBinaryContent="false">
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="ComponentTemplate">tcts</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="PageTemplate">tpts</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
<tcm:WebDavFileExtension ItemType="TemplateBuildingBlock">tbbs</tcm:WebDavFileExtension>
</tcm:Item>
</tcm:ListTemplateTypes>
Hope that helps!
UPDATE
Also added some vb code reference for you (or anyone else) if needed. The following will get the template type with id of 1, and output its title. If the code is horrid my apologies, my VBScript is a bit rusty.
[%
Dim xmlDoc
Dim xmlString
Dim templateTypeNode
Dim templateTypeName
xmlString= TDSE.GetListTemplateTypes()
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlString)
Set templateTypeNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/tcm:ListTemplateTypes/tcm:Item[@ID='1']")
templateTypeName = templateTypeNode.attributes.getNamedItem("Title").nodeValue
%]
[%= templateTypeName %]
Should output "VBScript [Legacy]".