Stelio made a post on how to handle the deletion of items across Sitecore databases. And I remembered that I wrote code for this situation in another way.
The way that I’ve approached this is to extend the Item Delete event so I can publish deleted item by publishing the parent item.
Basically, I detect the parent of the item that is currently deleted by an editor, and I publish that parent item on each target database that we have on our Sitecore installation.
The code, with comments for this here:
| using System; | |
| using System.Collections; | |
| using System.Collections.Generic; | |
| using Sitecore; | |
| using Sitecore.Configuration; | |
| using Sitecore.Data; | |
| using Sitecore.Data.Items; | |
| using Sitecore.Diagnostics; | |
| using Sitecore.Events; | |
| using Sitecore.Publishing; | |
| using Sitecore.SecurityModel; | |
| namespace Sitecore.Sandbox.Handlers | |
| { | |
| public class AutoPublisherHandler | |
| { | |
| /// <summary> | |
| /// OnItemDeleted handler. | |
| /// </summary> | |
| /// <param name="sender"></param> | |
| /// <param name="args"></param> | |
| public void OnItemDeleted(object sender, EventArgs args) | |
| { | |
| //This handler publishes the parent of the deleted item with his descendants of a deleted item. | |
| if (Context.IsBackgroundThread) return; | |
| try | |
| { | |
| //extract the deleted item, and then extract his parent | |
| var idParent = Event.ExtractParameter(args, 1) as ID; | |
| var parent = Database.GetDatabase("master").GetItem(idParent); | |
| var dataItem = parent; | |
| //fetch the target databases | |
| foreach (Database database in GetTargets(dataItem)) | |
| { | |
| //publish the parrent for each database | |
| var options = new PublishOptions(dataItem.Database, database, PublishMode.SingleItem, dataItem.Language, DateTime.Now) | |
| {RootItem = dataItem, Deep = true}; | |
| new Publisher(options).PublishAsync(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| catch (Exception ex) | |
| { | |
| Log.Error(ex.Message, this); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| /// <summary> | |
| /// Gets the targets. | |
| /// </summary> | |
| /// <param name="item">The item.</param> | |
| /// <returns>The targets.</returns> | |
| private IEnumerable<Database> GetTargets(Item item) | |
| { | |
| using (new SecurityDisabler()) | |
| { | |
| Item targets = item.Database.Items["/sitecore/system/publishing targets"]; | |
| if (targets != null) | |
| { | |
| var list = new ArrayList(); | |
| foreach (Item target in targets.Children) | |
| { | |
| string name = target["Target database"]; | |
| if (name.Length > 0) | |
| { | |
| Database database = Factory.GetDatabase(name, false); | |
| if (database != null) | |
| { | |
| list.Add(database); | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| Log.Warn("Unknown database in AutoPublisherHandler: " + name, this); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| return (list.ToArray(typeof (Database)) as Database[]); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| return new Database[0]; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
And the config changes needed:
| <?xml version="1.0"?> | |
| <configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/"> | |
| <sitecore> | |
| <events> | |
| <event name="item:deleted"> | |
| <handler type="Sitecore.Sandbox.Handlers.AutoPublisherHandler, Sitecore.Sandbox" method="OnItemDeleted" /> | |
| </event> | |
| </events> | |
| </sitecore> | |
| </configuration> |
