First take a list on the available event handlers: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/using-applicationbase-to-register-events/overview-of-all-events

If you want to react on the publishing of a content item from a special document type just implement the BeforePublish event handler and check for the document type alias of the document which will be saved.

hth, Thomas

Forgot the link to the example: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/using-applicationbase-to-register-events/event-examples

Thomas

I think you might have misunderstood my problem. I have read the examples but don't get how they will end up working in my umbraco application. My "issue" is probably a much more fundamental one.

Making a class with the functions that handles the event - no problem. Compiling it to a dll - no problem. Uploading the dll to the Umbraco installation dir/bin - no problem. Where to go from there - big problem ;-)

As mentioned before, I might have got the Idea of how it works all wrong.

/Dan

You nailed it Thomas.

But won't the publish event be executed no matter what document type is published? If so, I guess the trick is to check for the document type?

/Dan

You are right, but you can check the document type alias of the document which you want to react to:

void Document_BeforePublish(umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.PublishEventArgs e)
{
  if (sender.ContentType.Alias == "YOUR_DOC_TYPE_ALIAS")
  { 
    // Do your tasks
  }
}

In the if statement you are doing the tasks you only wnat to do for this document type

If you want to cancel the whole publishing process of this node you can add e.Cancel = true;

hth, Thomas

Thank you for your help Thomas. I will try that.

Cheers
/Dan

I'm playing around with similar stuff, but instead of checking for a particular DocumentType, I need to know if my custom DataType is being used in the DocumentType of the current Document. If so, I need to write some XML to the file system based on the value of the respective Property.

Any pointers on how I'd find only my custom DataType? Is there a more elegant way than iterating through like this?

private void Document_AfterPublish(Document sender, EventArgs e)
{
    foreach (Property DOCPROP in sender.getProperties)
    {
        if (DOCPROP.PropertyType.DataTypeDefinition.DataType is MY.DATA.TYPE)
        {
            // TODO: Write XML to file system
        }
    }
}


Hi,

Me thinks it can be done using Linq

var properties = sender.getProperties;
var datatypes = from p in properties where p.PropertyType.DataTypeDefinition.DataType.Id.ToString() == myDataType.Id.ToString());
if (datatypes.Length == 1) { // datatype found }

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Dirk,

Nice timely post will help with http://our.umbraco.org/projects/broken-link-checker/feature-suggestions/8665-Report-no-href-as-broken-link

Regards

Ismail

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