Forums (Obsolete)


Member	dan-moov2 - 11/28/2012 1:15:08 PM Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date We're migrating content from an existing CMS to Kentico using the API. We need to be able to carry over the last modified date but these properties all seem to be read-only. When creating a new document via the API how can we specify a lastmodified date other than the current date/time it defaults to?


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 12/3/2012 1:20:41 PM RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date Hi, Have you tried getting that particular object instance and call the SetValue method? For example: node.SetValue("columnName", value); In this case the column name would be DocumentModifiedWhen. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus


Member	dan-moov2 - 12/6/2012 5:14:48 AM RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date node.SetValue("DocumentModifiedWhen", value); Yes we've tried that doesn't work I'm afraid, it just defaults to the current datetime :(

Kentico Support

kentico_jurajo - 12/6/2012 5:38:40 AM

RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date

Hi,

This code is working just fine for me:

  // Create an instance of the Tree provider first
        TreeProvider tree = new TreeProvider(CMSContext.CurrentUser);

        // Get the document
        TreeNode node = tree.SelectSingleNode(CMSContext.CurrentSiteName, "/home", "en-us");

        DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
        node.SetValue("DocumentModifiedWhen", date);
        node.Update();

What is your code like?

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus


Member	dan-moov2 - 12/6/2012 5:49:30 AM RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date Ours is during the creation of the node, I'm guessing we will we have to create then retrieve then update to be able to override this behaviour?


Member	dan-moov2 - 12/6/2012 5:52:10 AM RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date Also, you're setting the time to DateTime.Now which is the default behaviour, are you able to set it to a previous date? //e.g... DateTime date = new Date(2010, 01, 01);


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 12/6/2012 6:35:57 AM RE:Assign LastModified or PublishFrom date Hi, OK, I got it :-) you need to set the TreeProvider.UpdateTimeStamps to false before setting the value. you can do it e.g. like this: using(var ctx = new CMSActionContext()) { ctx.UpdateTimeStamp = false; // DO the magic here } Best regards, Juraj Ondrus