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sperr0w 48 posts 81 karma points

Nov 21, 2009 @ 08:20

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Add Content items programmaticaly

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Hi!

Now I try to migrate existing site to umbraco platform. Existing site have a big news section ( about 500 items). All news have this hierarchy:

newsList->NewsCategory->NewsItem

I already create all templates and documentTypes I need. Now I need to create in NewsList content item of Umbrraco NewsCategories and NewsItems.

NewsCategories and NewsItems in existing site is in the two tables of SQL server database. So I need just suggestion how to create documents in content section of umbraco in code.

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sperr0w 48 posts 81 karma points

Nov 21, 2009 @ 08:40

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I find static method MakeNew of ContentItem class. Is it right way? But I dont know, how to use it.

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Richard Soeteman 4035 posts 12842 karma points MVP

Nov 21, 2009 @ 09:11

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Hi,

You could do this yourself using Document.MakeNew or use the umbImport tool I wrote to import the news items into umbraco.

Hope it helps you,

Richard

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Nov 21, 2009 @ 11:06

As noted by Richard, i would also recommend using umbImportTool. Otherwise Document.MakeNew

            int parentNodeId=1500; // set value
            string docTypeAlias = "NewsItem"

            umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document d = null;
            umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType ddt = null;
            try
            {
                ddt = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.DocumentType.GetByAlias(docTypeAlias);
            }
            catch { }

            d = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document.MakeNew(searchname, ddt, new umbraco.BusinessLogic.User(0), parentNodeId);

            d.getProperty("propertyAlias1").Value = "value1";
            d.getProperty("propertyAlias2").Value = "value2";

            //publish
            d.Publish(new umbraco.BusinessLogic.User(0));
            umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(d.Id);

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Nov 21, 2009 @ 11:07

            d = umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document.MakeNew("document name", ddt, new umbraco.BusinessLogic.User(0), parentNodeId);

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sperr0w 48 posts 81 karma points

Nov 22, 2009 @ 08:37

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Thanks a lot all, I will try and tell here about my results. Also can u tell me, is somewhere in umbraco database saves content section?

I cnow, that all content is in xml file in data folder, is it xml main storage for content or this file creates on the fly from database?

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