CODE SITECORE ITEM EVENT CUSTOM HANDLERS
Located in the web config is a section called <events> this contains a load of events that are fired when things happen within Sitecore. The common one I see Sitecore solutions using is the item:saved event. Hopefully this post is going to get you started on writing some custom save event handlers.
All we need is a class within our project containing the following code:
When the code below is run it is going to replace any spaces in the item’s name with hyphens (this is just an example, if you wish to achieve hyphens instead of spaces in the URL of a page, there is a replace section in the web.config where this can be easily achieved with “out of the box” functionality)
using System;
using Sitecore.Data.Items;
using Sitecore.Diagnostics;
using Sitecore.Events;
namespace Sitecore.Playground.ItemEventHandler
{
public class EventHandler
{
protected void OnItemSaved(object sender, System.EventArgs args)
{
if (args == null)
{
return;
}
// get item from args
Item item = Event.ExtractParameter(args, 0) as Item;
// if we have an item
if (item != null && item.Name.Contains("-"))
{
try
{
// begin editing and replace spaces in the items name with hyphens
item.Editing.BeginEdit();
item.Name = item.Name.Replace(" ", "-");
item.Editing.AcceptChanges();
item.Editing.EndEdit();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// catch and log exception to the Sitecore log logs
Log.Error(string.Format("Failed to rename item {0}: ", item.ID), ex, this);
}
}
}
// other example method
protected void OnItemDeleted(object sender, System.EventArgs args)
{
}
}
}
To get the code to run when an item is saved, we need to head over to the web.config in the section, find your desired item:event and place the following handler in the event element. In my case I’m going to place it in the item:saved event.
<event name="item:saved">
<handler type="Sitecore.Playground.ItemEventHandler, Sitecore.Playground" method="OnItemSaved"></handler>
</event>
References required:
- Sitecore.Kernal.dll
