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sharepoint-2010event-receiverinformation-management
Bhavana
Bhavana

Reputation: 311

Item deleting event doesn't get fired when an item in a document library is deleted using retention policy

I have designed a custom retention policy through which items of my document library gets hard deleted after a certain amount of days.

After these items are deleted from the document library, I have to update another list as these item status as archived.

But the item deleting event receiver doesn't get fired.

Event Reciever code

    public override void ItemDeleting(SPItemEventProperties properties)
   {
       try
       {
           base.ItemDeleting(properties);
           SPWeb oWeb = properties.Web;
           SPListItem spLI = properties.ListItem;
           SPList oList = oWeb.GetList("mylist");
           string fileName = spLI.Name;
           string userID = string.Empty;
           if (oList != null)
           {
               SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
               query.Query = "<Where><And><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"ReportName\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">" + fileName + "</Value></Eq><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"ReportStatus\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">COMPLETED</Value></Eq></And></Where>";
               query.ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name=\"UserID\" /><FieldRef Name=\"ReportStatus\" /><FieldRef Name=\"ReportName\" />";
               query.RowLimit = Constants.CAML_QUERY_ROW_LIMIT;
               query.ViewAttributes = Constants.CAML_QUERY_VIEW_ATTRIBUTES_ALL;
               SPListItemCollection allfiles = reportInfoList.GetItems(query);
               if (allfiles != null)
               {
                   if (allfiles.Count > 0)
                   {
                       foreach (SPListItem spReportInfoItem in allfiles)
                       {
                           userID = spReportInfoItem["UserID"].ToString();
                           spReportInfoItem["Status] = "Archived";
                           spReportInfoItem.SystemUpdate();
                       }
                   }
               }
           }
       }
       catch (Exception expException)
       {
        throw expException;
       }
   }

Upvotes: 2

Views: 254

Answers (1)

Bhavana
Bhavana

Reputation: 311

After a lot of google I figured out that a SystemUpdate() which does not fire events. And the retention policy deletes from the list is a SystemUpdate() hence my event receiver doesn't get fired. So I changed my code accordingly.

Upvotes: 1

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