Comments on: Work with Unpublished PageData from code

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:25:06 +0000

That sounds strange. DataFactory.Instance.GetChildren() in EPiServer CMS 5 and later should return all published children regardless of their Start and Stop publish date. GetChildren should not return null at all, it should return an empty PageDataCollection.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:35:54 +0000

Thanks for the answer and yes, I am manually setting a publishing date. If I try to access the page in Norwegian it works good but from get children method I only get null in return.

I would expect to get the Norwegian branch if I explicitly ask for the no branch but I only get null.

Thanks again!

Christian, Iteam

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:26:50 +0000

Yes, I can confirm that you always have to publish the Master Language before publishing any other Language Branches.

But what exactly do you mean by “Unpublish”? Are you setting the Stop Publish date or do you use SaveAction to force the current version to another status?

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:08:34 +0000

Hi,

I am having problems with a tricky scenario:
1. A page is created in the master language branch (Swedish)
2. The page gets translated to Norwegian and Danish
3. The Swedish page is unpublished

Now we don’t get any of the pages when using GetChildren (with or without LanguageSelector.Autodetect). Have you experienced the same problem with unpublished pages in master language branch but with versions still existing in other languages?

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:49:16 +0000

Ranjit, what is your question?

Explain what you try to acomplish instead, then maybe I can suggest a strategy to solve it.

By: Ranjit J. Vaity

Ranjit J. Vaity — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:27:40 +0000

Hi,
I am trying following:
PageData page = itemDetailPageType.CreateWritableClone();
page["ThumbNailImage"] = uploadProductThumbDirectory + unifiledThumbFile.Name;
DataFactory.Instance.Save(page, SaveAction.CheckIn | SaveAction.ForceCurrentVersion);

In here the thumb nail Image url gets saved to the page and is visible on the view mode. But Pages referring to this page gets “ThumbNailImage” ImageToUrl property as null.

Unless I specifically publish this thumbnail page. I am capturing Page_Published event. tried Page_Publishing page but error comes “PageWorkId” is null.

Please suggest!

Thanks,
Ranjit J. Vaity

By: Sharron Clemons

Sharron Clemons — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:21:52 +0000

Good examples, thanks!

By: Emil

Emil — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:49:15 +0000

Life saver!

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By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:49:41 +0000

Thanks for this – it gave me a solution for a completely un-related problem.

I was trying to cheekily update page properties during the PublishedPage event without creating a new version of the page… I figured that it was getting the right [undocumented] SaveAction argument and the code in your last example gave me a solution, i.e.

DataFactory.Instance.Save(page, SaveAction.CheckIn | SaveAction.ForceCurrentVersion);

By: Ross Neilson

Ross Neilson — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:04:20 +0000

Great stuff Fredrik this example really helped me out with something I was working on recently.

By: Petter

Petter — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:35:37 +0000

Yes keep up the posting! I read em all and hand them out right and left when people are having problems. Your the man!

By: Nicklas

Nicklas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:29 +0000

Keep up the posting, Fredrik! This is good stuff.

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:51:36 +0000

Good examples, thanks!