Publish items using the JavaScript ItemService API

Question

I'm using the ItemService API in Javascript to login to sitecore and dynamically create items (documentation i'm using)

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://<your server>/sitecore/api/ssc/item/sitecore%2Fcontent%2Fhome ");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if (this.readyState == 4) {
    alert('Status: '+this.status+'\nHeaders: '+JSON.stringify(this.getAllResponseHeaders())+'\nBody: '+this.responseText);
  }
};
xhr.send("{ \n    \"ItemName\": \"Home\", \n    \"TemplateID\": \"76036f5e-cbce-46d1-af0a-4143f9b557aa\", \n    \"Title\": \"Sitecore\", \n    \"Text\": \"\\r\\n\\t\\t\u003Cp\u003EWelcome to Sitecore\u003C/p\u003E\\r\\n\" \n}");

When items are created, i need to publish them but i can't find any informations in the doc about that. Is it possible to do that right after the item is created?

Thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

You can use the PublishManager class to handle publishing of items in Sitecore.

PublishManager.PublishItem(Item item, Database[] targets, Language[] languages, bool deep, bool compareRevisions);

Here's an example:

try
{
    var domainUser = @"sitecore\admin";

    if (Sitecore.Security.Accounts.User.Exists(domainUser))
    {
        var user = Sitecore.Security.Accounts.User.FromName(domainUser, false);

        using (new Sitecore.Security.Accounts.UserSwitcher(user))
            PublishManager.PublishItem(item, webDatabaseArray, languagesArray, false, false);
    }
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Sitecore.Diagnostics.Log.Error(ex.Message, null);
}

Answer 2

Kevin is right, there is no publish task available in the API. The expectation is that there will be a workflow in place and the moving from state to state would be a business process. Handling that in the API would be custom.

If you don't have a workflow in place, I suggest you just turn on the publishing task. If you don't already have it turned on. This will publish the items on a schedule basis.

<sitecore>
    <scheduling>
        <agent type="Sitecore.Tasks.PublishAgent">
            <!-- The time format is "HH:MM:SS" -->
            <!-- Auto-Publish every 6 hrs HCG-C6 -->
            <patch:attribute name="interval">06:00:00</patch:attribute>
            <param desc="source database">master</param>
            <param desc="target database">web</param>
            <param desc="mode (full or smart or incremental)">smart</param>
            <param desc="languages">en</param>
        </agent>
    </scheduling>
</sitecore>