How to set the default value for the component before newly creating component completely loaded through eventhandler [duplicate]

Question

i am trying to set the default value for newly creating component through eventhandler as below

EventSystem.Subscribe<Component, LoadEventArgs>(LoadComponentData,EventPhases.TransactionCommitted);

private void LoadComponentData(Component component, LoadEventArgs args, EventPhases phases)
    {

logger.warning("component.Content" + component.Content);                               
    }

but i am getting empty value for component.Content.

what exactly i required is, Before newly created component completely loads to the author, i need to set the default value for the component.(Note: i am exlicitly saying for the newly creating component,not existing opening)

can any one help on this.

Answer 1

You can set default value for component fields in your schema. If for some reason you don't want to do it, you could use GetInstanceDataEventArgs event for this.

Answer 2

The easiest way to set default values of a componente, is by asigning default values in the schema definition, as user978511 said.

But if you want to update the values in the Event, first of all, if you want to update only the new components, you can use the boolean

args.isNewItem();

and to manage the content of the component, you can use:

ItemFields fields = new ItemFields(component.Content, component.Schema);
TextField tf = (TextField)fields["name_of_the_filed"];
tf.Value = "whatever_you_want";
component.Content = fields.ToXml();
component.Save(true);