Creating frontend pages on module installation

Posted by Community Admin on 10-Dec-2012 00:00

Hi,
I'm trying to make some pages in module intsallation method. I click install and it install process doesn't stops. After refreshing module page, there is an error saying: "Object references between two different object scopes are not allowed. The object 'Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model.PageNode' is already managed by 'ObjectScopeImpl 0x4e OpenAccessRuntime.EnlistableObjectScope' and was tried to be managed again by 'ObjectScopeImpl 0x5d OpenAccessRuntime.EnlistableObjectScope'.":

01.App.WorkWith().Page()

02.

.CreateNewStandardPage(PageManager.GetManager().GetLocationRoot(Telerik.Sitefinity.Fluent.Pages.PageLocation.Frontend),UniquePageGuid)

03. .Do(p=>

04.

05. p.Title = "Test page";

06. p.ShowInNavigation = false;

07. p.UrlName = "test234";

08. p.NodeType = NodeType.Group;

09. )

10. .Done();

What I'm doing wrong?
Is there any other way to create page?

Posted by Community Admin on 10-Dec-2012 00:00

Native API works fine:
PageNode rootPage = PageManager.GetManager().CreatePage(Telerik.Sitefinity.Fluent.Pages.PageLocation.Frontend, Uniquepageid, NodeType.Group);
rootPage.Title = "test123";
rootPage.ShowInNavigation = false;
rootPage.UrlName = "test233";

Posted by Community Admin on 11-Dec-2012 00:00

I'm having one more problem. After creating page, I would like to publish that page.
As written in example, i wrote that:
Dictionary<string, string> bag1 = new Dictionary<string, string>();
bag1.Add("ContentType", typeof(PageNode).FullName);
WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(newPage.Id, typeof(PageNode), null, "Publish", false, bag1);
But call to "WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow" throws an exception "HTTP Content-Type header is required for SOAP messaging and none was found."
Server stack trace:
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelUtilities.ValidateRequestReplyResponse(HttpWebRequest request, HttpWebResponse response, HttpChannelFactory`1 factory, WebException responseException, ChannelBinding channelBinding)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.RequestChannelBinder.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at Telerik.Sitefinity.ContentWorkflows.IService.SendMessage(String operationName, Boolean isCheckedOut, Guid workflowDefinitionId, Guid contentId, String providerName, Dictionary`2 contextBag)
at Telerik.Sitefinity.ContentWorkflows.ServiceClient.SendMessage(String operationName, Boolean isCheckedOut, Guid workflowDefinitionId, Guid contentId, String providerName, Dictionary`2 contextBag)
at Telerik.Sitefinity.Workflow.WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(String wokflowUrl, String operationName, WorkflowDefinition workflowDefinition, Guid contentId, String providerName, Boolean isCheckedOut, Dictionary`2 contextBag)
at Telerik.Sitefinity.Workflow.WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(Guid itemId, Type itemType, String providerName, String operationName, Boolean isCheckedOut, Dictionary`2 contextBag)
at TestModule.TestModuleInfo.InstallPages(SiteInitializer initializer) in ****TestModuleInfo.cs:line 300
at Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.GenericContent.ContentModuleBase.Install(SiteInitializer initializer)
at TestModule.TestModuleInfo.Install(SiteInitializer initializer) in ****TestModuleInfo.cs:line 156
at Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.ModuleBase.Install(SiteInitializer initializer, Version upgradeFrom)
at Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.SystemManager.InitializeModule(ModuleSettings settings, InstallContext installContext, Nullable`1 start, Boolean skipLoading)

When exception occurs bag1 contains:
[ContentType, Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model.PageNode]
[userHostAddress, ::1]

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Dec-2012 00:00

Hello,

Do you experience this problem only when you're publishing a page by code? Please try the following code, since with it I was able to create a new Page in a sample project:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

var page = "myTestPage";

var pageId = Guid.NewGuid();

var parentPageNodeId = Guid.Empty;

CreatePage(pageId, page, false, parentPageNodeId);

public void CreatePage(Guid pageId, string pageName, bool isHomePage, Guid parentPageNodeId)

var pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid();

PageManager manager = PageManager.GetManager();

PageData pageData = null;

PageNode pageNode = null;

// Get the parent node Id

if (parentPageNodeId == Guid.Empty)

parentPageNodeId = SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId;

PageNode parent = manager.GetPageNode(parentPageNodeId);

// Check whether exists

var initialPageNode = manager.GetPageNodes().Where(n => n.Id == pageId).SingleOrDefault();

if (initialPageNode != null)

return;

// Create the page

pageData = manager.CreatePageData(pageDataId);

pageData.HtmlTitle = pageName;

pageData.Title = pageName;

pageData.Description = pageName;

pageData.Culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.ToString();

pageData.UiCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.ToString();

pageNode = manager.CreatePage(parent, pageId, NodeType.Standard);

pageNode.Page = pageData;

pageNode.Name = pageName;

pageNode.Description = pageName;

pageNode.Title = pageName;

pageNode.UrlName = Regex.Replace(pageName.ToLower(), @"[^\w\-\!\$\'\=\@\d_]+", "-");

pageNode.ShowInNavigation = true;

pageNode.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

pageNode.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

// Check whether home page

if (isHomePage)

manager.SetHomePage(pageId);

manager.SaveChanges();

// Publish

var bag = new Dictionary<string, string>();

bag.Add("ContentType", typeof(PageNode).FullName);

WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(pageId, typeof(PageNode), null, "Publish", false, bag);

All the best,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 14-Dec-2012 00:00

First, thank you for reply.
Second: I'm trying to publish page in context of module instalation, where I can't use SaveChanges():
protected override void InstallPages(Telerik.Sitefinity.Abstractions.SiteInitializer initializer)

PageManager pageManager = initializer.PageManager;
....

Page creation works fine, publishing using WorkflowManager creates problem.
I don't know how, but I found out that pageManager.PublishPageDraft(draftPage); does the job.
What's the difference between those two methods?

I used this guide: www.sitefinity.com/.../adding-and-removing-controls

Edit: I experienced this problem only with code, in cms everything works.

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Dec-2012 00:00

Hello,

The two approaches are different. Calling WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow you're publishing the page through the Workflow, which changes its ApprovalWorkflowState to Published (this can be seen under the Page title in the SiteMap tree - the "Published" sign comes from the worflow). Messaging the workflow also changes the lifestyle of the page to Live. The other approach you mentioned goes through the life lifecylce only. This means that if you have any workflows set (default or custom) it will publish the page without passing through the workflow. Of course in this case you need to change the ApprovalWorkflowState to published again. Here's a sample code where we're using the lifecycle to publish the page. We practically repeat the procedure - creating a the page node and page data, but then we edit the page, which releases a "temp" version of the page. Then we Checkin the page. This creates a draft of the page. The last thing we do is we pass the draft to the Publish lifecycle method of the page manager and set the ApprovalWorkflowState status to "Published".

var page = "Test";

var pageId = Guid.NewGuid();

var parentPageNodeId = Guid.Empty;

CreatePage(pageId, page, false, parentPageNodeId);

public void CreatePage(Guid pageId, string pageName, bool isHomePage, Guid parentPageNodeId)

var pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid();

PageManager manager = PageManager.GetManager();

PageData pageData = null;

PageNode pageNode = null;

// Get the parent node Id

if (parentPageNodeId == Guid.Empty)

parentPageNodeId = SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId;

PageNode parent = manager.GetPageNode(parentPageNodeId);

// Check whether exists

var initialPageNode = manager.GetPageNodes().Where(n => n.Id == pageId).SingleOrDefault();

if (initialPageNode != null)

return;

// Create the page

pageData = manager.CreatePageData(pageDataId);

pageData.HtmlTitle = pageName;

pageData.Title = pageName;

pageData.Description = pageName;

pageData.Culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.ToString();

pageData.UiCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.ToString();

pageNode = manager.CreatePage(parent, pageId, NodeType.Standard);

pageNode.Page = pageData;

pageNode.Name = pageName;

pageNode.Description = pageName;

pageNode.Title = pageName;

pageNode.UrlName = Regex.Replace(pageName.ToLower(), @"[^\w\-\!\$\'\=\@\d_]+", "-");

pageNode.ShowInNavigation = true;

pageNode.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

pageNode.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

// Check whether home page

if (isHomePage)

manager.SetHomePage(pageId);

manager.SaveChanges();

var temp = manager.EditPage(pageData.Id);

var draft = manager.PagesLifecycle.CheckIn(temp);

// Publish

//var bag = new Dictionary<string, string>();

//bag.Add("ContentType", typeof(PageNode).FullName);

//WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(pageId, typeof(PageNode), null, "Publish", false, bag);

manager.PagesLifecycle.Publish(draft);

pageNode.ApprovalWorkflowState = "Published";

manager.SaveChanges();

Here's also a sample from our documentation, where we using the lifecycle again, but this time with the fluent API, to create a page:

public static bool CreatePage(Guid pageId, string pageName, bool isHomePage, Guid parentPageId)

bool result = false;

var pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid();

var parentId = parentPageId;

if (parentId == Guid.Empty)

parentId = SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId;

var count = 0;

using (var fluent = App.WorkWith())

var pagesFacade = fluent.Pages();

using (new ElevatedModeRegion(pagesFacade.GetManager()))

pagesFacade.Where(p => p.Id == pageId).Count(out count);

if (count == 0)

var pageFacade = fluent.Page();

pageFacade

.CreateNewStandardPage(parentId, pageId, pageDataId)

.Do(p =>

p.Title = pageName;

p.Name = pageName;

p.Description = pageName;

p.UrlName = Regex.Replace(pageName.ToLower(), UrlNameCharsToReplace, UrlNameReplaceString);

p.ShowInNavigation = true;

p.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

p.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

p.Page.HtmlTitle = pageName;

p.Page.Title = pageName;

p.Page.Description = pageName;

p.Page.Culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.ToString();

p.Page.UiCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.ToString();

p.ApprovalWorkflowState.Value = SampleUtilities.ApprovalWorkflowStatePublished;

).CheckOut().Publish().SaveChanges();

if (isHomePage)

SystemManager.CurrentContext.CurrentSite.SetHomePage(pageId);

//var pageIdFacade = fluent.Page(pageId);

//using (new ElevatedModeRegion(pageIdFacade.GetManager()))

//

// pageIdFacade.SetAsHomePage().SaveChanges();

//

result = true;

return result;

This method can be found in the SampleUtilities class from the SDK.

Greetings,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 04-Jan-2013 00:00

Yes, both works fine everywhere except in module instalation method.

Posted by Community Admin on 08-Jan-2013 00:00

Hello,

Can you give us more information about the errors you get when you run the provided code samples?

Regards,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 08-Jan-2013 00:00

Full example:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Abstractions;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Configuration;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Fluent.Pages;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Workflow;

namespace TestModule

public class ModuleInfo : ModuleBase

public override void Install(SiteInitializer initializer)

// I can also use PageManager.GetManager(),

// but same exception occurs in the end

PageManager pageManager = initializer.PageManager;

PageNode node = pageManager.CreatePage(PageLocation.Frontend,

Guid.NewGuid(), NodeType.Standard);

// set page properties

node.Title = "Test page";

node.ShowInNavigation = false;

node.UrlName = "test-page";

node.DateCreated = DateTime.Now;

node.LastModified = DateTime.Now;

// Create a PageData object to hold the actual page contents

PageData pageData = pageManager.CreatePageData();

pageData.HtmlTitle = "Test page";

pageData.Title = "Test page";

pageData.Visible = true;

pageData.IncludeScriptManager = true;

pageData.Culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.ToString();

pageData.UiCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.ToString();

pageData.Template = pageManager.GetTemplates().FirstOrDefault();

// associate the node with the PageData object

node.Page = pageData;

/* can't save here, because I'm using initializer.PageManager

Exception occuring: Cannot use SaveChanges or CancelChanges on

instance manager that was specified to use global or distributed

transaction. Instead, use TransactionManager static methods

CommitTransaction(string transactionName) or

RollbackTransaction(string transactionName). */

// pageManager.SaveChanges();

// Editing page

PageDraft draftPage = pageManager.EditPage(pageData.Id);

draftPage.TemplateId = pageData.Template.Id;

pageManager.PagesLifecycle.CheckIn(draftPage,

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture);

// can't save page

// pageManager.SaveChanges();

/* here exception occurs

Text - An HTTP Content-Type header is required for SOAP

messaging and none was found. */

WorkflowManager.MessageWorkflow(node.Id,

typeof(PageNode),

null,

"Publish",

false,

new Dictionary<string, string>()

"ContentType", typeof(PageNode).FullName

);

protected override ConfigSection GetModuleConfig() return null;

public override Guid LandingPageId

get return new Guid("a39e0940-477f-4a7c-a6ff-58c00f072d0f");

public override Type[] Managers get return new Type[] ;

public override void Upgrade(SiteInitializer initializer,

Version upgradeFrom)

Posted by Community Admin on 11-Jan-2013 00:00

Hello Gooya,

I wasn't able to reproduce the exception with your code. Please try to publish pages with the two codes I sent you. You can find more information about the exception you receive here:

social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../8e4c954e-37f5-4149-b2dd-f6f1f0e2e8ca

I the issue persists, I would suggest you to open a support ticket and provide your module for debugging.

Kind regards,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

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