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Nuno Linhares
Nuno Linhares

Reputation: 10234

Event System: How to know if editor clicked Save or Save & Close?

In Tridion 2011 SP1 I'm trying to implement an event that will publish items automatically whenever the editor presses Save & Close (but not Save).

Under normal conditions this could be handled in a CheckIn event, but because this item will probably be in workflow, there is no CheckIn event (yet).

In COM Events we had a flag (doneEditing) to tell us if the editor had pressed save & close vs Save. I don't seem to be able to find a similar option in TOM.NET Events.

For reference - here's the code so far:

[TcmExtension("Publish to Wip Events")]
public class PublishToWip : TcmExtension
{
    public PublishToWip()
    {
        EventSystem.SubscribeAsync<VersionedItem, SaveEventArgs>(PublishItemToWip, EventPhases.TransactionCommitted);
    }
    private void PublishItemToWip(VersionedItem item, SaveEventArgs args, EventPhases phases)
    {
       // Magic goes here
    }
}

I've looked at the options for SaveEventArgs, but haven't found anything that would provide me this information. Any tips?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 490

Answers (3)

Nuno Linhares
Nuno Linhares

Reputation: 10234

Alright, with some help from the CM team I got the right answer to this.

Use the CheckInEvent instead of save. Even if the item is in workflow it will still invoke this event when you click Save & Close (and only if you click Save & Close, not when you click Save).

Something like this will get me going:

[TcmExtension("Publish to Wip Events")]
public class PublishToWip : TcmExtension
{
    public PublishToWip()
    {
        EventSystem.Subscribe<VersionedItem, CheckInEventArgs>
            (PublishItemToWip, EventPhases.Processed);
    }
    private void PublishItemToWip(VersionedItem item, 
        CheckInEventArgs args, EventPhases phases)
    {

        if (!item.LockType.HasFlag(LockType.InWorkflow)) return;

        if (!item.IsCheckedOut) return;
        // do something now

Upvotes: 5

Anton Minko
Anton Minko

Reputation: 21

In order to catch item finished workflow you need to subscribe to FinishProcess event on the Process, not on the component:

EventSystem.SubscribeAsync<Process, FinishProcessEventArgs>(FinishProcessHandler, EventPhases.TransactionCommitted, EventSubscriptionOrder.Late);

In the event handler Process instance will contain list of Subjects with the versioned item finished workflow - the one you want to publish:

private static void FinishProcessHandler(Process process, FinishProcessEventArgs e, EventPhases phase)
{
   foreach (var itemInWorkflow in process.Subjects)
   {
      //publish
   }
}

Upvotes: -1

Mihai Cădariu
Mihai Cădariu

Reputation: 2407

I was looking at this in the past, but I couldn't find a suitable solution. In the end I gave up.

The idea I had was to have a GUI extension to intercept the Save and as such write an AppData entry for that item saying it was a Save or a SaveClose. Then your event system would read the AppData and act accordingly.

Don't forget to clean up the AppData in your event code.

Upvotes: 2

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