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How can I tell if event system code has been loaded?
The event system code loads when the Tridion Content Manager Service Host service loads, and you can see this in the Windows Event Viewer. As each event handler loads you will see the status showing ...
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Is it possible to "undo check out" in an event handler for "check in" in the initiated phase?
Unless you're trying to implement really granular permissions (more on that in a minute) it makes more sense to handle this on the check-out event instead. The rudimentary issue that I see - and this ...
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Easiest way to update all components after schema update
What have you tried? If you're just starting your search then the docs references below are a great start.
Both the TOM.NET and Core Service APIs are available but it shouldn't be about what's ...
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Overriding Publishing Queue
For #1 publishing priority is the way to go. Maybe changing the default priority to "low" will give you enough of an override to push things through quickly. Using publishing priorities in conjunction ...
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Unable to capture Save event of returning components from Translation Manager
You can try the below events related to Workflow:
1.Event for Workflow process starts
EventSystem.Subscribe<ProcessInstance, StartWorkflowEventArgs>(OnProcessInstanceStart, EventPhases....
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GUI not rendering <br> and new line showing error messages
You would have to make CSS updates through a GUI extension besides using the new line (\n) in your exception message.
In your event system exception, you will be using the new line like this:
throw ...
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Is there a field change event I can subscribe to?
You could consider [[removed:OOTB]] Supported category use with the Tree View. The user would select from the top-down and the field populated with the final select.
Of course, by supported I mean ...
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Tridion Event System with specific User
Another option is to temporarily elevate permissions of the current user in the event handler:
using (ElevatedPrivilegesScope scope = new ElevatedPrivilegesScope(nonAdminSession, Privileges.SysAdmin))...
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Event system - capture copy - paste event for keyword
You should be able to do this by subscribing to initiated phase of the copy event of a Keyword and removing the related Keywords.
For example:
EventSystem.Subscribe<Keyword, CopyEventArgs> (...
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Event System with multiple DLLs
For 2011 and up I would actually say it is preferred to use multiple DLLs, specifically so you can isolate different features and have a better control over what events you want enabled or not.
You ...
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Ways and steps to debug custom event handler code if any
Have you googled, you must have found following http://yatb.mitza.net/2012/03/debugging-tridion-2011-event-system.html
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Overriding Publishing Queue
What you are requiring is mainly to use publish queue in a way its not meant to be used.
For #1 you want to publish items before all others. That is the exact purpose of "high" priority. Problem is ...
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Creating an Item with the Tridion Event System
Use the StructureGroup constructor to get a new SG, something like this:
StructureGroup newSg = new StructureGroup(session, parentSGTcmId);
Here is a snippet from the API docs:
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Tridion Event System with specific User
I would not try to impersonate an admin user from the event system. It opens up all kinds of vulnerabilities that you probably don't want. Instead, I would create a separate service (e.g. a REST ...
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What is the difference between EventSystem.SubscribeAsync and EventSystem.Subscribe events in Tridion Event system?
The difference is that on an ASYNC (SubscribeAsync) event, your code will run without blocking the main event from happening, while on SYNC events (Subscribe) the main event will wait for your code to ...
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How to access Tridion Config Component in Event System
As Atila, mentioned using core service in event system is never recommended but instead TOM.NET and to get the component "configComponent" in event system you can take the reference of the below code. ...
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Event System with multiple DLLs
When it comes to specifics around Tridion, the thing to consider with multiple event DLLs is that it may not be clearly visible what all the subscribed events are. For example, several DLLs may ...
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Event System with multiple DLLs
I'm not aware of any performance issues or other things to consider. So I'd say go for it, as long as it logically makes sense to split them up and you don't create hundreds of them :)
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Tridion Publishing error Logs
Here are the logs which are helpful during publish and their configuration:
Event Viewer:
Tridion
Tridion Content Manager
Logfiles on CM/Publisher Servers:
%TridionHome%\log\TcmPublisher.log
%...
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How can we make an event to trigger when something published from specific Publication?
The event handlers (triggers) are system-wise, so you will have to control the publication scope from within the event itself. I would check it at the very beginning, see the example below:
[...
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Appending TCM of newly created component to component title
In the transaction committed phase you would have to call the Save method on the component, which would create a new major version. Unfortunately, this is the only way to do it as far as I know.
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Order in which resolved- and processed items are populated in PublishTransaction save event
Regarding the "Why are there two 'Rendering' states?", or more accurately "Why are there two Save events with State 'Rendering'?": you already more or less answered the question yourself -- the first ...
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How to ForceFinish the Workflow Process by setting Approval Status as "Undefined"?
The Import/Export Service (as used by Content Porter) will set Session.ContextData so Event Handlers can detect that the Events are triggered by a Content Manager Import action.
You could catch that ...
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Updating approval status of a item | On Save | Event System
Approval status is currently a read only property in the API and the only way it can be changed is via a workflow process (other than what you've currently done with your event system, which is ...
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Custom Event Handler when Saving Component not Firing
From looking at the code there are a few remarks which I will make, but looking at your description I'm not directly seeing reasons why it shouldn't work. If you only have a single CM server (not an ...
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Can Workflow be used to restrict the publishing/editing of a Page and its Components on selected Publications?
If your difference is based on the user's role in certain Publications, I would first consider adjusting authorization in terms of rights, groups, and maybe permissions.
Otherwise yes, you could have ...
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Unable to capture Save event of returning components from Translation Manager
Looks like you may be using the wrong event? I don't know which event it is neither, so what I'd probably do is write a small event system that triggers on every event and logs enough details for me ...
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Reading Tridion Items During Event System Extension Initialization
Instantiating Session object in the constructor of ES doesn't work from version 8 and beyond. We had this issue when we did the upgrade from 2013 to 8.5. So what we did is moved it to all event ...
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How to associate workflow to structure group without Workflow Management right?
The reason why you still get a permission denied error in your example is that your StructureGroup object is still in the original user's Session and not in your "administrator" Session; you do obtain ...
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Trouble retrieving Page values in save event
You're using the Initiated event phase, so the data for the page hasn't been changed by Tridion yet. Change your subscription to hook into the EventPhases.Processed phase and you should see the ...
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