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In your screendump, you can see that the system name of the custom item types is "CustomWebsiteSettings" - so you need to use that:

Pageview.AreaSettings.GetItem("CustomWebsiteSettings")

Hmm, I hear you, but this does not work either.

In another install, where the setting is on the same place, they refer it like this:

Hi Siv

It depends on where the email is send from. If it is send from the backend, there is no pageview context and it will not work.

If it is an email running in the frontend, i.e. forgot password, you can get hold of the pageview by going after Pageview.Current...

BR Nicolai

From the backend. No workaround available?

You can create a new instance of the area directly and get hold of the item in your Razor code like this: 

Dynamicweb.Services.Areas.GetArea(1).Item.*

But the above will give you an Item instance - and not an ItemViewmodel as you know

So something like this - code has not been tried:

int areaid = 1;
    var area = Dynamicweb.Services.Areas.GetArea(areaid).Item;
    object item;
    area.TryGetValue("customSettings", out item);
    if(item.GetType() == typeof(Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item))
    {
        Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item myItem = (Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item)item;
        var subject = myItem["Subject"];
    }

Subject can be changed in the screen where the data is send out.

BR Nicolai

Your code is normally working Nicolai, but we have one issue.
This solution is using Rapido, and we are going to get the custom settings from the "Custom" tab in website settings.

The problem here is that this code:

var area = Dynamicweb.Services.Areas.GetArea(1);
var websiteSettingsTabs = area.Item;
var custom = websiteSettingsTabs["Custom"];

Return a string with a number/id and not a item object, since it is of type "Item Tab" not "Item Type".
So how can we get this value (see image below) programatically, from backend.

Hi Martin,

Can you try (untested)

var custom = websiteSettingsTabs.GetItem("Custom");

Adrian

Nice try Adrian, but it still return a object of type String, not Item.

var custom = websiteSettingsTabs.GetItem("Custom");
custom.GetType(); // Return System.String

Add the code to a class so you can attach the debugger and find out what properties are available on the item...

Try something like this...

var area = Dynamicweb.Services.Areas.GetArea(1);
var websiteSettingsTabs = area.Item;

var customItemFieldSystemName = "Custom";
var customItemType = "Custom";
var customItemId = websiteSettingsTabs[customItemFieldSystemName] as string;
var customItem = Dynamicweb.Services.Items.GetItem(customItemType, customItemId);

var customSettingsFieldSystemName = "CustomSettings";
var customSettings = customItem[customSettingsFieldSystemName] as string;

You should probably add some null checks to this code to avoid exceptions.

To help with debugging you can serialize your items and output the json in your template:

<div>
    <pre>@Dynamicweb.Core.Converter.Serialize(websiteSettingsTabs)</pre>
</div>