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Member	JAA - 12/23/2013 10:19:26 AM What determines that something is a Global Object? select * from dbo.Staging_Task I would like to programatically identify which staging tasks are Global Object changes. Is there a field that will tell me? It looks like TaskObjectType in StagingTask can be NULL, cms.webpart, cms.pagetemplate, etc. Is this it?

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Brenden Kehren - 12/23/2013 1:19:38 PM

RE:What determines that something is a Global Object?

Looks like its hard coded in the XML that defines the tree. I don't believe there is anything specific in the staging tables that flag it. You could look at the CMS_ClassSite to see if a particular object is assigned to a site, if not, then assume its global.

The TaskObjectType is the class name and not a global object flag. Web parts don't belong to sites so they will always be global. page templates, doc types, etc. can be assigned to a site so they will have a record in the CMS_ClassSite I mentioned above.

As I mentioned in the other post, you might look into reporting the issue you're having vs. creating something else (that could have even more bugs in it).

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JAA - 1/3/2014 8:27:09 PM

RE:What determines that something is a Global Object?

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not following up across the board, ive been fighting some different fires.

Ultimately, I want to qualify content between environments outside of Kentico. Im not claiming Kentico has or has not issues, regardless if they do or not, I need quick processes for making sure my content has been staged.

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JAA - 1/3/2014 8:51:20 PM

RE:What determines that something is a Global Object?

FroggEye wrote: Looks like its hard coded in the XML that defines the tree. I don't believe there is anything specific in the staging tables that flag it. You could look at the CMS_ClassSite to see if a particular object is assigned to a site, if not, then assume its global.

The TaskObjectType is the class name and not a global object flag. Web parts don't belong to sites so they will always be global. page templates, doc types, etc. can be assigned to a site so they will have a record in the CMS_ClassSite I mentioned above.

As I mentioned in the other post, you might look into reporting the issue you're having vs. creating something else (that could have even more bugs in it).

Performing a basic test of creating a page on a page, I can see a Global Staging task:

TaskID	TaskSiteID	TaskDocumentID	TaskNodeAliasPath	TaskTitle	TaskData	TaskTime	TaskType	TaskObjectType	TaskObjectID	TaskRunning	TaskNodeID	TaskServers
2665	3	NULL	NULL	Add Page template 'Ad-hoc: walt-cousin' to site	CONTENT-DELETED	2014-01-03 21:38:46.713	ADDTOSITE	cms.pagetemplate	161	NULL	NULL

It has a TaskSiteId, it is TaskObjectType as a cms.pagetemplate. Im curious how the content staging UI knows how to classify this under Objects->Global Objects section

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Brenden Kehren - 1/4/2014 6:15:12 PM

RE:What determines that something is a Global Object?

If you have an understanding of how Kentico works in general you'll know that objects can be global and site specific. Anything that has a TemplateSiteID populated in it, means that global template, which was assigned to a site, was updated.

Think of it this way, pretty much everything in the Site Manager is a global object. Some can be assigned to specific sites and some cannot. If you update one of those global objects and it's being used by 1 or 2 or 100 sites, all those sites using it will be updated.

To answer your question

JAA wrote: Im curious how the content staging UI knows how to classify this under Objects->Global Objects section

as I mentioned previously, its hard coded in the XML that defines that tree you are selecting the site or global objects from.