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Setting and Saving Dynamic Properties in code
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Hi,
I'm struggling to persist changes to a dynamic property on a page.
I have an event handler hooked onto the CreatedPage event. I also have a dynamic property defined called guidIdentity.
In the event handler I want to set this dynamic property to the value of a new guid and persist this change.
I have the following code in the event handler:
DataFactory.DynPropTree.SetDynamicProperties(pageData);
string guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
pageData.Property["guidIdentity"].Value = guid;
EPiServer.Global.EPDataFactory.Save(pageData,EPiServer.DataAccess.SaveAction.Publish);
When i view the page in edit mode and edit dynamic properties the value is empty. Any ideas why this is the case?
Many thanks.
Jan 02, 2007 10:24
Ah, it seems that although the dynamic property appears to be a property, that in fact is not really the case when it comes to changing the value.
There is a another, somewhat undocumented, way to update a dynamic property in code.
The following works:
DynamicPropertyCollection dynaprops = DynamicProperty.ListForPage(e.PageLink);
DynamicProperty dp = dynaprops["guidIdentity"];
dp.PropertyValue.Value = "some value";
DynamicProperty.SaveCollection(e.PageLink, dynaprops);
An addition to the book/ docs on this would be useful. All the examples are read only and give the impression that dyna props work the same way as normal properties.
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Jan 02, 2007 12:16
