Sitecore Stuff and Such

A nice feature in Sitecore when you are editing Items from the Content Editor, is the Context Menu. Here are almost all functions you'll need when working with Items. Create new, Copy, Delete, Rename Item and more. But one feature that is missing is the possibility to publish your Items.

I have a small tip to you, when you have to update items in your Sitecore solution from a batch job or a script correcting data on several items in the solution. It is possible to accomplice this without changing the fields "Updated by" and "Updated", there by your script will not overwrite the original data about, who updated the item and when.
 
This is simply done by setting the updateStatistics flag to false when editing the Item.

    using (new SecurityDisabler())
    {
        var items = Sitecore.Context.Item.Children;
        foreach (var scItem in items)
        {
            using (new EditContext(scItem, false, false))
            {
                //update whatever data on your childitem you have to correct
                //without changing the statistics fields
            }
        }
    }

Thats all folks - hapii coding ;)

When using the reminder function in Sitecore the editor will receive the same reminder for every database the Item exists. In a normal setup with a master and a web database this will cause the editor to get the same reminder twice.

public class CustomTaskDatabaseAgent : TaskDatabaseAgent
    {
        public new void Run()
        {
            Task[] pendingTasks = Globals.TaskDatabase.GetPendingTasks();
            this.LogInfo("Processing tasks (count: " + (object)pendingTasks.Length + ")");
            foreach (Task task in pendingTasks)
            {
                try
                {
                    task.LogActivity = this.LogActivity;
                    //Test if the Task is the EmailReminderTask and the current database is not master database
                    if (task.GetType() == typeof (EmailReminderTask) && !task.DatabaseName.ToLower().Equals("master"))
                    {
                        //If its not the master database
                        //Only mark the Task as done, dont execute the remider
                        Globals.TaskDatabase.MarkDone(task);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        task.Execute();    
                    }
                    TaskCounters.TasksExecuted.Increment();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Log.Error("Exception in task", ex, task.GetType());
                }
            }
        }

        private void LogInfo(string message)
        {
            if (!this.LogActivity)
                return;
            Log.Info(message, (object)this);
        }
    }

//Default TaskDatabaseAgent
<agent type="Sitecore.Tasks.TaskDatabaseAgent" method="Run" interval="00:10:00"/>

//Custom TaskDatabaseAgent
<agent type="Netmester.SitecoreExtensions.CustomTaskDatabaseAgent" method="Run" interval="00:10:00"/>
	

If you set up the reminder function in Sitecore, and you have a Multi server setup with Content Manager and Content Delivery instances, you may run into problems with reminders not being sent.