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Export certain properties from page instance and importing on another page instance

Carl S

Vote:

How do I copy only specified properties to another page?

E.g. we have a SettingPage which we want to copy declared properties to the StartPage (then delete the SettingPage).

I found there was a property exporter, but it doesn't seem to do what I thought it was.

var contentInfo = _contentRetriever.CreateRawContentInfo(settingsPage.ContentLink, cultureInfo.Name);
var propertyList = settingsPage.GetType()
				.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly)
				.Select(x => x.Name)
				.ToList();

var targetPropertyList = contentInfo.RawContent.Property.Where(x => propertyList.Contains(x.Name)).ToList();
var rawContent = new RawContent();

_propertyExporter.ExportProperties(settingsPage, targetPropertyList, new PropertyExportContext
{
				TransferOptions = new TransferExportOptions
				{
					AutoCloseStream = true,
					ExcludeFiles = false,
					RequiredSourceAccess = AccessLevel.NoAccess,
					TransferType = TypeOfTransfer.Copying,
					IncludeReferencedContentTypes = false,
					ExportPropertySettings = false,
				},
				Output = rawContent,
				Source = settingsPage,
});

Any ideas?

#315360

Edited, Jan 09, 2024 21:35

Scott Reed

Vote:

There's not really a way to copy the values from one page to another page out of the box.

How many properties do you have, I'd suggest either writing a job if not many or just writing a SQL script to copy the values which shouldn't be too hard

#315464

Jan 11, 2024 16:28

Carl S

Vote:

That I know. Which is why I experimented with the above code in a scheduled job (executed once).

There are quite a lot of properties, content areas, custom properties etc.

IContentCopyHandler would be nice if you could specifiy which properties :)

I don't really want to do a loop and custom checks for each type - but it doesn't sound like I have a choise.

#315471

Jan 11, 2024 22:12

Carl S

Vote:

I found a way to do it for those whom are interested.

Inject IContentTypeRepository and...

var contentType = _contentTypeRepository.Load(sourcePage.ContentTypeID);

foreach (var definition in contentType.PropertyDefinitions)
{
				var propertyValue =
								sourcePage.GetPropertyValue<object?>(definition.Name);

				if (propertyValue is XhtmlString xhtmlString)
				{
								targetPage.SetPropertyValue(definition.Name,
									new XhtmlString(xhtmlString.ToInternalString()));
				}
				else
				{
								targetPage.SetPropertyValue(definition.Name,
									propertyValue);
				}
}

There are some special handling. E.g 'XhtmlString' and 'ContentArea' but it's doable this way.

#316128

Jan 24, 2024 9:09

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