Generic Content Marked as Draft

So...

I've successfully (almost) built a custom module based on the products sample.  No matter what I do though, any newly created items always appear as draft.  

The documentation:
http://www.sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/sitefinity-essentials-modules-content-lifecycle.html

Isn't really helpful.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hello Victor,

Can you provide a sample that shows how you are publishing/ saving the items ? Are you using workflow or the fluent API ?

Greetings,
Teodor
the Telerik team

I missed a step somewhere.  I went back and copied the sample again and it worked just fine.  I am still confused about something though.  In the Products sample in the file ProductDesigner.cs the following code appears but the line but the last line is commented out.

If thought that "uncommenting" out  the line would let me pick more own "content filter" for my custom type (JobListing) but what happens instead if the content is from the "News" module.  Am I missing something?

Hello Victor,

The designer can be used in 3 modes

           var contentSelectorsSettings = new SomeDesignerContentSelectorsDesignerView(); - content selector tab
               contentSelectorsSettings.ContentSelector.ItemType = typeof(MyItem).FullName;
       

            var listSettings = new ListSettingsDesignerView(); - list view designer
            listSettings.DesignedMasterViewType = typeof(MyMasterView).FullName;
            listSettings.LayoutTemplatePath = ControlUtilities.ToVppPath("Telerik.Sitefinity.Samples.Templates.Designers.ContentView.MyItem.MyItemSettingsDesignerView.ascx");

            var singleItemSettings = new SingleItemSettingsDesignerView();
            singleItemSettings.DesignedDetailViewType = typeof(MyDetailsView).FullName;
            views.Add(contentSelectorsSettings.ViewName, contentSelectorsSettings);
            views.Add(listSettings.ViewName, listSettings);
            views.Add(singleItemSettings.ViewName, singleItemSettings);

If the DetailsView or MasterView are under not the proper namespace you will get items from anther provider.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

OK.  I got the content selector showing the right content on the pages but..

The single item buton, still shows news (see below)

Code:

01.var contentSelectorsSettings = new ContentSelectorsDesignerView();

02. 

03.            contentSelectorsSettings.ContentTitleText = resources.DesignerContentTitleText;

04.            contentSelectorsSettings.ChooseAllText = resources.DesignerChooseAllText;

05.            contentSelectorsSettings.ChooseSingleText = resources.DesignerChooseSingleText;

06.            contentSelectorsSettings.ChooseSimpleFilterText = resources.DesignerChooseSimpleFilterText;

07.            contentSelectorsSettings.ChooseAdvancedFilterText = resources.DesignerChooseAdvancedFilterText;

08.            contentSelectorsSettings.NoContentToSelectText = resources.DesignerNoContentToSelectText;

09.            contentSelectorsSettings.ContentSelector.TitleText = resources.DesignerContentSelectorTitleText;

10.            contentSelectorsSettings.ContentSelector.ItemType = typeof(JobListing).FullName;

11.            contentSelectorsSettings.SingleSelectorButtonText = "Job Listings";

12.             

13.            contentSelectorsSettings.ContentSelector.ServiceUrl = "~/Sitefinity/Services/Content/Products.svc";

 

 

Hello Victor,

There are two reasons not to see the data

1. You use localization and the filter of the selector is not set

selector.ItemsFilter = Visible == true AND Status == Live AND Culture == en"

2. There is an issue with the web service and its methods.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

The items filter is being set.

As far as the service goes, it never gets called.  I confirmed this in Fiddler. 
The HTML source on the page still shows the NewsService.svc as the ServiceURLBase.

Hi Victor,

1. Add the following code in the control designer template

I added this workaround to the "AddViews" function and i worked like it was supposed to.  
Is it possible there's a bug when setting the ContentSelector.ItemType?

Either way, thanks for all your help.

Hello Victor,

There should not be an issue. I have the sample that opens the dialog working properly at my end.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

I probably missed something somewhere. 

Thanks for taking the time to help!

Please share the sample I am also having the same issue

Hi Moiz,

The code that I used is shown several posts above.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan Dimitrov,

I've seen your code, I am asking for your sample just to be sure of where to put it.

Also while I was debugging yesterday. I noticed that sitefinity renders the list correctly the first time, after we built the solution. But the nest time we edit the widget it show's the same news.

I used this line to set my service from the code.

>>  If the DetailsView or MasterView are under not the proper namespace you will get items from anther provider.

Can you expand on this? My ContentSelectorsDesignerView is doing the same thing and don't understand what you're getting at here.  

Hi jack,
 could you please send me a sample module need see, where i am making a  mistake

Hi,

I suggest that you should take  a look at our SDK and the new module builder implementation that comes with Sitefinity 4.4.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team