How to save content while ignoring required properties?

Ynze

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Hello everyone,

We have a custom service that can create draft content using the IContentRepository and some of the content properties are annotated with the [Required] attribute. The service does not always have the content required for those fields and a content editor has to add the missing content before publishing.

We could use the approach described in the article below — however the problem is that the properties should still be required when the user creates content but not when it is created by our service.

https://www.david-tec.com/2017/07/hiding-required-properties-on-the-create-new-page-in-episerver/

Any advice?

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Edited, Apr 29, 2022 5:57

Sebastian Enberget

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When doing it by code you can send in a SkipValidation flag

_contentRepository.Save(IContent, SaveAction.SkipValidation | SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

That should skip the validation for the required attributes if I remember correctly

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Apr 29, 2022 6:39

Ynze - Apr 29, 2022 7:05

Perfect, that'll do it. Thanks!