Newly Created Content Items Appear as Draft - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-Jun-2011 00:00

I'm creating event content items using the following code:

App.WorkWith().Event().CreateNew().Do(calEvent =>

eventID = calEvent.Id;

PopulateNewEvent(calEvent, currentUser);

)

.Publish()

.SaveChanges();

The events then show up in the Sitefinity back end as a Draft, as shown in the attached screenshot. Is calling .Publish().SaveChanges(), the recommended process for creating and publishing a new event using the Fluent API? What are the effects of having the content item created as "Draft" as opposed to "Published"?

Thanks.

Posted by Community Admin on 28-Jun-2011 00:00

Hello Geoff,

Try using this way

Guid eventId = Guid.Empty;

var title = "TestEvent";

var TestContent = "TestContent";

App.WorkWith().Event().CreateNew().Do(ev =>

eventId = ev.Id;

ev.Title = title;

ev.Visible = true;

ev.Content = TestContent;

ev.DateCreated = DateTime.Now;

ev.ApprovalWorkflowState = "Published";

)

.SaveChanges();

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 29-Jun-2011 00:00

Seems counterintuitive, but that appears to have corrected the issue. Thank you, Ivan.

I'm curious, what does the .Publish() method do exactly?

Thanks.

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Jun-2011 00:00

Hello Geoff,

It calls Publish method of the EventsManager which publishes the master state and creates a new version of the item, but this does not update the workflow state that is shown on the label.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
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