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greengiant83 88 posts 109 karma points

Feb 18, 2011 @ 16:41

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Create child documents when a document is created

Is there a way to way to have umbraco create a series of child documents when a document of a certain document type is created automatically?

I have a fundraiser document type and registration document type as well as a handful of others. When a new fundraiser is created I need to have a register page and some others created under it. Is there a way for these child pages to created automaticaly whenever a new fundraiser document is created?

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Tom Fulton 2030 posts 4998 karma points c-trib

Feb 18, 2011 @ 16:48

Hi,

You could do this with the API by using ApplicationBase Events, something like:

        void Document_AfterNew(object sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.NewEventArgs e)
        {
            Document doc = new Document(true,((CMSNode)sender).Id);
            if (doc.ContentType.Alias == "Fundraiser")
            {
                Document.MakeNew("Name of new node", DocumentType.GetByAlias("RegisterPage"), umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent(), doc.Id);
            }
        }

See wiki: Using ApplicaitonBase to register events

Richard Soeteman also had a good blog post about events

-Tom

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greengiant83 88 posts 109 karma points

Feb 18, 2011 @ 17:03

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Awesome! Thanks for the answer, Tom. This CMS rocks! What a beautiful api.

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Tom Fulton 2030 posts 4998 karma points c-trib

Feb 18, 2011 @ 17:07

Not a problem! Also I forgot to mention this will only create the document, not publish anything

If you want to set properties and/or Publish:

Document newDoc = Document.MakeNew("Name of new node", DocumentType.GetByAlias("RegisterPage"), umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent(), doc.Id);
newDoc.getProperty("propertyAlias").Value = "value";
newDoc.Save();
newDoc.Publish(umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent());
umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(newDoc.Id);

-Tom

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Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points

Nov 30, 2011 @ 14:47

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Great, this is just what I was looking for.

Thanks.

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