Transaction aborted Error when creating publication using core service.How to resolve this error and what the reason of this error?

Question

This is my code

String publicationName="WebSite";

PublicationData publicationData=(PublicationData)client.getDefaultData(ItemType.PUBLICATION,"tcm:0",new ReadOptions());

 publicationData.setTitle(publicationName);

publicationData.setPublicationUrl(publicationName);

 publicationData.setKey(publicationName);

publicationData.setPublicationType("Web");

 publicationData.setPublicationPath(publicationName);

 System.out.println("in publication");

publicationData=(PublicationData)client.create(publicationData,new ReadOptions());

when i am creating publication by this code i am getting an exception

Exception in thread "main" com.sdltridion.contentmanager.coreservice.ICoreServiceCreateCoreServiceFaultFaultFaultMessage: The transaction has aborted.

Answer 1

you can try the code below, as you did not mention the version. this should work for 2011

       String publicationName="WebSite";

       PublicationData publicationData = new PublicationData() ;
       publicationData.Id = "tcm:0-0-0";
       publicationData.Title = publicationName;
       publicationData.PublicationUrl = publicationName;
       publicationData.Key = publicationName;

        publicationData.PublicationType = "Web";

        publicationData.PublicationPath = publicationName;

        publicationData = (PublicationData)tridionClient.Create(publicationData, new ReadOptions());

Answer 2

Set the publication ID property as well with tcm:0-0-0 and this should resolve the issue.

Add below line as well in your code before you call the create method:

publicationData.setPublicationID("tcm:0-0-0");