How to Publish or unpublish document from user control or custom module

Your custom module should then include a custom page type if you want to use the OOTB publish and unpublish functionality. If you don't want to use that functionality, you'll have to include that functionality manually on the form for those classes by creating a custom form control to update the publish/unpublish dates.

Hi Brenden,

Can you please suggest me for OOTB publish and unpublish functionality. i don't have any idea about this.

also if i have to manually from which DB table this operation occurs or please suggest any API to do(if exist)

regards, Harshal

The API code to publish or unpublish is relatively simple, although if you have workflow / versioning you have to add some more code.

Once you have your custom Modules / Web part, and you access the "click" or whatever logic to get to it, here's a sample code segment to publish / unpublish. This can be found in your Kentico Menu -> Development -> API Examples -> Modules -> Content Management -> Workflow Advanced

Keep in mind the API Examples module in Kentico, SUPER helpful, didn't know it existed until about a month ago.

TreeProvider tree = new TreeProvider(MembershipContext.AuthenticatedUser);

// Prepare parameters
string siteName = SiteContext.CurrentSiteName;
string aliasPath = "/API-Example";
string culture = "en-us";
bool combineWithDefaultCulture = false;
string classNames = TreeProvider.ALL_CLASSNAMES;
string where = null;
string orderBy = null;
int maxRelativeLevel = -1;
bool selectOnlyPublished = false;
string columns = null;

// Get the document
TreeNode node = DocumentHelper.GetDocument(siteName, aliasPath, culture, combineWithDefaultCulture, classNames, where, orderBy, maxRelativeLevel, selectOnlyPublished, columns, tree);

if (node != null)
{
    WorkflowManager workflowmanager = WorkflowManager.GetInstance(tree);

    // Make sure the document uses workflow
    WorkflowInfo workflow = workflowmanager.GetNodeWorkflow(node);

    if (workflow != null)
    {
        // Check if the workflow uses check-in/check-out
        bool autoCheck = !workflow.UseCheckInCheckOut(SiteContext.CurrentSiteName);

        // Create a new version manager instance
        VersionManager versionmanager = VersionManager.GetInstance(tree);

        // If it does not use check-in/check-out, check out the document automatically
        if (autoCheck)
        {
            versionmanager.CheckOut(node);
        }

        if (node.IsCheckedOut)
        {
            // Edit the last version of the document
            string newName = node.DocumentName.ToLower();

            node.DocumentName = newName;
            node.SetValue("MenuItemName", newName);

            // Save the document version
            DocumentHelper.UpdateDocument(node, tree);

            // Automatically check in
            if (autoCheck)
            {
                versionmanager.CheckIn(node, null, null);
            }

            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            apiEditDocument.ErrorMessage = "The page hasn't been checked out.";
        }
    }
    else
    {
        apiEditDocument.ErrorMessage = "The page doesn't use workflow.";
    }
}

return false;