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Infinite editing editorService.contentEditor unable to create new content item

See original GitHub issue

I am currently working on a back office extension to allow users to create new content items without leaving the context of the current item using the infinite editing features.

The documentation for the contentEditor hints that this should be possible by setting the create flag on the editor options to true. Although the docs mention Media and not Content?

create	Boolean	Create new content item

See: https://our.umbraco.com/apidocs/v8/ui/#/api/umbraco.services.editorService

However there is nowhere to set the alias of the type of content you would like to create, or where in the tree it should create the new item.

Reproduction

If I run the following:

function create() {
      var options = {
        create: true,
        submit: function (model) {
          editorService.close();
        },
        close: function () {
          editorService.close();
        }
      }
      editorService.contentEditor(options);
}

you end up with the following error.

GET http://localhost:2427/umbraco/backoffice/UmbracoApi/Content/GetEmpty?contentTypeAlias=undefined&parentId=1068 404 (Not Found)

1068 is the ID of the page I am currently on.

Bug summary

There should be a way to create a new piece of content using the editorService.contentEditor I would expect the editor object to have attributes for:

documentTypeAlias
parentId

Specifics

Umbraco 8.0.2

Steps to reproduce

As mentioned above

Expected result

To be able to initiate the creation of new content from the editorService.contentEditor with a call like the following

function create() {
      var options = {
        create: true,
        parentId: 1069,
        documentTypeAlias: 'contentPage',
        submit: function (model) {
          editorService.close();
        },
        close: function () {
          editorService.close();
        }
      }
      editorService.contentEditor(options);
}