Question

my question is basically the same as @Bob Black’s Cannot access sitecore item field via API but I agree with @techphoria414 that the accepted solution is not necessary and in my case does not work.

In my own words, I have a template Departure that I have been using for about a year now creating and updating items programmatically. I have added a new field Ship to the template. When I create a new item the field comes up as null when I try to access it using departure.Fields["Ship"]. If I step over the line causing the exception then after calling departure.Editing.EndEdit() I can then see the Ship field if I call departure.Fields.ToList(). If I add the template to a content item via the Sitecore GUI I can see the field and use it, and if I look at a content item which is based on the template I can see the new field too. So it is only when I access the template/item programmatically that it is null.

I have sitecore running on my local machine with a local sqlserver, and publish to my local machine.

Here is my code

String ship = "MSDisaster";

foreach (Language language in SiteLanguages)
{
    departure = departure.Database.GetItem(departure.ID, language);
    departure.Editing.BeginEdit();

    try
    {
        departure.Fields["StartDate"].Value = GetSitecoreDateString(xDep, "StartDate");
        departure.Fields["EndDate"].Value = GetSitecoreDateString(xDep, "EndDate");
        departure.Fields["Guaranteed"].Value = xDep.SelectSingleNode("./Guaranteed").InnerText;
        departure.Fields["Status"].Value = xDep.SelectSingleNode("./Status").InnerText;
        departure.Fields["Currency"].Value = ConvertLanguageToCurrency(language);
        departure.Fields["Market"].Value = ConvertLanguageToMarket(language);
        departure.Fields["TwinSharePrice"].Value = GetPrice(xDep, "twn", language);
        departure.Fields["SinglePrice"].Value = GetPrice(xDep, "sgl", language);

        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ship))
            departures.Fields["Ship"].Value = ship;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        departure.Editing.CancelEdit();
        log.Error(ex);
        throw ex;
    }
    departure.Editing.EndEdit();
}

So, how do I get the field be picked up?

Thanks,

James.

Answer 1

Sorry Chris, StackOverflow, and the others who looked at my questions. It was a stupid typo. It’s even there in my question

    departure.Fields["SinglePrice"].Value = GetPrice(xDep, "sgl", language);

    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ship))
       departures.Fields["Ship"].Value = ship;
}

departure is the item I am working on, departures is the collection it belongs to… doh.

So what is the protocol here? Do I delete my question now because it isn’t really going to help anyone code better?

James.