If I remember correctly it's a build in functionality to keep them published after archived; I believe the thought is to allow for visitor access to for instance archived news pages etc. Not 100% sure though. You can try out EPi functionality on the demo sites: http://world.episerver.com/Download/Demo-Sites/Alloy/ Just log into World to get hold of usernames and passwords for editors/admins.

You may have to tweak EPi's archive job, or build your own; I don't recon it would be very complex. It may help to have a peek at the EPiServer.Util.PageArchiveJob class using ILSpy or the like.

//Mathias

Auch! Okey, I've been doing a bit of searching without finding a good or common solution. Do you know if there is a way to set a scheduled job for a surtain node... Let's say I want to make every child page "stop publish" at a given time every day... or maybe even deleted (moved to trash)?

If you write your own job you could just loop through all the pages that you want to delete and then mimic what the EPi archive job does,

IContentRepository contentRepository;

contentRepository.Move(current.PageLink, current.ArchiveLink, AccessLevel.NoAccess, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

but rather than using current.ArchiveLink, you could make it move to ContentReference.WasteBasket.

Unless you could just set the archive-target to wastebasket directly in the UI; not sure you can though since the basket is no longer part of the tree.

//Mathias

Okey Mathias... I don't know if I'm doing something totally wrong here but when I'm trying to use something like this

var pages = Locate.ContentRepository().GetChildren(thePageLink);

I get "Locate" underlined and the message (The name 'Locate' does not exist...) in Visual Studio. It works alright when I'm in codebehind (on a template page) but not in my class (ScheduleTest.cs). All libraries (using) are there and the same. Confused!

I'm kind of new to IContentRepository and I've been trying to do it the old way with DataFactory. I've ran into a bit of problem there as well since I can't figure out how to get the PageLinks for my pages under my archive page. I can get/change the pagedata but I'm having problems moving them to the waste basket (since I then need the PageLinks). All very frustrating... If you can help and point me in the right direction I would be thankful! 

Hi!

Try this for getting the contentRepository and moving the pages:

var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();

contentRepository.Move(current.PageLink, ContentReference.WasteBasket, AccessLevel.NoAccess, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

For getting the PageLink (a ContentReference object nowadays) you could use page.ContentLink

Let me know if you run into problems.

//Mathias

I've messed around a bit and my problem with Locate seems to be that the method is a Static method (for scheduled job). When I remove the Static declaration Locate works like a charm... But my scheduled job doesnt. It fails since it doesnt find Execute(). Do you know of a way to get around this? Thanks!

Okey, I think I managed to solve the whole thing by creating a second class (not static) and working with the Locate and content there... Seems like a workaround when I look at it but as for now it solves my problem (I think). Is this the way to go or do you know of a cleaner way? Thank you for your help!

Hm, do you have any more details on the Execute exception? The Execute method needs to be static, but that wasn't the one you changed was it? Not sure how Locate is implemented but the ServiceLocator-call above works in Execute for me.

Did you call Locate from the constructor?

Yes, that's what I did... Here's the very charming class theLocateProblem ;)

public class theLocateProblem : PageTemplateBase 
{
public string message;

public theLocateProblem(PageReference pref)
{
var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
var repository = EPiServer.ServiceLocation.ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();

IEnumerable pages = Locate.ContentRepository().GetChildren(pref);

message = "Removing pages...
";
if (!PageReference.IsNullOrEmpty(pref))
{
foreach (var p in pages)
{
message += "Content moved to waste: " + p.Name + "
";
contentRepository.Move(p.ContentLink, ContentReference.WasteBasket, AccessLevel.NoAccess, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
}
}
else
{
message += " PageReference för arkiv saknas... Inga sidor är borttagna";
}

}

}

Hm, try doing something like this. I haven't tried the code and pieced it together in notepad so you might have to correct typos ^^;

	[EPiServer.PlugIn.ScheduledPlugIn(
		DisplayName = "Remove archived pages",
		Description = "Moves archived pages to the wastebasket.",
		SortIndex = 2)]
	public class RemoveArchivedPagesJob
	{
		private static readonly object JobLock = new object();
		public static string Execute()
		{
			if (!System.Threading.Monitor.TryEnter(JobLock))
			{
				// Other job uses the monitor
				return "Still running";
			}

			try
			{
				MovePages();
				return "OK";
			}
			catch (Exception e)
			{
				//may want to write to log here
				return string.Format("Error: {0}, {1}", e.Message, e.StackTrace);
			}
			finally
			{
				System.Threading.Monitor.Exit(JobLock);
			}
		}

		private static void MovePages()
		{
			var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
			var archivePageReference = new ContentReference(111); // Reference to archive container page, get it from somewhere.
			var archivedPages = contentRepository.GetChildren(archivePageReference);

			foreach (var page in archivedPages)
			{
				contentRepository.Move(page.PageLink, ContentReference.WasteBasket, AccessLevel.NoAccess, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
			}
		}
	}

The thought is that you select an archive node (the new ContentReference line, you might not want to hard code it like that), retrieves all the child pages, then loop through them moving them to trash. Ought to work :)

Thank you Mathias... I've lost my hair over this today so I think I'll leave it for now :) Glad I finally got it working. But I'll check your code later...