Component not getting saved and also not throwing any exception in event code

Question

I am working in Tridion event code 2011. I am trying to save the component by the below code, it is getting checkedout but not getting save

  try
                {
                    component.Save(true);
                }
                catch(TridionComException ex)
                {
                    EventHelper.WriteEventToHTMLLog("Tridion : Error -" + (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ex.Message) ? ex.Message : "Null") + "-->StackTrace: " + (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ex.StackTrace) ? ex.StackTrace : "Null"));
                }

Also , the exception is not caught in the main Exception class. I assume there is some problem in the component save. I updated the content of the component and i checked by below

component.Content.OuterXml

What can be the issue?

Answer 1

I can think of a couple of things that could be going wrong here. What is the context of the code you are running? It this the only save event you are subscribed to for this component? And what phase are you running in? I've ran into problems when trying to do a 'double' check-in etc. If you are running in the 'initiated' phase you do not need to perform the save, because the item is not saved to the database and will be saved and checked-in due to the nature of the phase. Perhaps you could add a bit more of the code so we could see what is going on.

With that being said, try the following code to check out a component, updating it's content and ensuring it is checked back in.

bool isCheckedOut = component.TryCheckOut();
if (isCheckedOut)
{
    // do something with the component
    component.Save(true); // enforcing the check-in like you've done.
}

The 'TryCheckOut()' will check the component out if it is not previously checked out, and also ensures that the checkout was successful. Are you sure this component is not shared (and is localized / the root component)? If none of the above helps you out, post a bit more of your code and the event subscriptions and I will try to help you out.

Have a look at the great article by Bart describing the event phases here.