Modify News Publication Date

Posted by Community Admin on 16-Sep-2011 00:00

Hi!

Can you please tell me how can I modify the publication date of the news items?
I allowed the PublishDate to visible from custom field options and it is displaying on the edit mode of news but when I update the publish date it does not update.
I am using sitefinity 4.1 SP3.

Can you please reply ASAP.

Thanks!

Posted by Community Admin on 16-Sep-2011 00:00

Hello Waqar,

You can modify the publication date of the news items programmatically. Please consider the bellow sample:

var newsAll = App.WorkWith()

.NewsItems()

// .Where(nI => nI.Status == ContentLifecycleStatus.Live)

.ForEach(nI =>

var val = nI.GetValue("NewsDate").ToString();

var ss = DateTime.Parse(val);

nI.PublicationDate = ss;

nI.DateCreated = ss;

)

.SaveAndContinue();

Please take into consideration the NewsDate value which is a custom field added to your News items, and contains the desired date.

Greetings,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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

HI !

Thanks for the reply,

I run this code but foreach loop I am getting following error
" An item with the URL '/2011/09/09/-بنك-دبي-الإسلامي-و-الأردن-دبي-كابيتال-و-دبي-انترناشونال-' already exists."

Can you please help me on this? I have more than 200 news I can't repopulate them.

Please come up with some solution.

Posted by Community Admin on 30-Sep-2011 00:00

Hi Waqar,

The sample code that I have provided you with is a solution on how to achieve the desired results using the API, if you do not intend on having a custom field from the backdating process, then you can simply pass a valid date to the code and set the PublicationDate/DateCreated accordingly.

You also have the option to upgrade to our 4.2 SP1 release, which contains this functionality built - in the system.

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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