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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Scheduling database tasks


Sitecore provides you with the database task feature to schedule tasks, which comes with many advantages over scheduling agents. To make this recipe shorter, we will configure database task to reset layout details.

How to do…

We will first implement a task to reset layout details, which we already implemented while creating jobs:

  1. In the SitecoreCookbook project, create a ResetLayoutTask class in the Tasks folder and implement the Execute() method. Database task expects a specific signature for this method as follows:

    public void Execute(Item[] items, CommandItem command, ScheduleItem schedule)
    {
      foreach(Item rootItem in items) {
        ResetLayoutDetails(rootItem);
      }
    }
  2. Create the ResetLayoutDetails() method to reset layout details, which we already implemented while creating a job. You can also get the code from the code bundle provided with this book.

    Now we will create the database task.

  3. From the content editor, select the /sitecore/system/Tasks/Commands item. In this...