Sitefinity CreateDataItem for Child Content Type results in Live and Visible record with Null for system_parent_id
I'm desperate for an answer to this. I'm using the Sitefinity API to create Child Items for a Parent Item. (These are dynamic content types in a dynamic module)
At the end of setting the properties I do the following:
historicDataEntry.SetWorkflowStatus(dynamicModuleManager.Provider.ApplicationName, "Published"); dynamicModuleManager.Lifecycle.Publish(historicDataEntry); historicDataEntry.SetParent(GetFundIDToUse(), etfType.FullName); dynamicModuleManager.SaveChanges();The result is two records in the sf_dynamic_content table which is right, but the second record for some reason has a system_parent_id of null even though it gets the values visible = 1 and status = 2.
It's as though I'm missing something in the process because when the Live record is created it's not copying the parent_id even though the Master record correctly references the Parent ID.
If I go into the admin interface, open the record I created and click publish THEN it copies the parent ID correctly, but the API approach doesn't do that. Why?
Turns out the Code Reference provided by the Module Builder seem to be incorrect. Setting the Parent first and then the Workflow and Publishing solves the problem:
historicDataEntry.SetParent(GetFundIDToUse(), etfType.FullName); historicDataEntry.SetWorkflowStatus(dynamicModuleManager.Provider.ApplicationName, "Published"); dynamicModuleManager.Lifecycle.Publish(historicDataEntry); dynamicModuleManager.SaveChanges();