Write a file with item field data when item is saved

Question

I want to access all the data of an item when I click Save button in Sitecore.

Suppose I have an ITEM A. If I click Save button in Sitecore, I would like to store all the data in the fields to a text file on the file system.

How can I achieve that? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

I would recommend creating an item:saved event handler to take the data and save the information you need.

Note: the item:saved event is different from the item:saving event and I believe preferable in this case because the item:saving event happens while the editor waits for the save command to complete.

Create a custom event handler

public class WriteFileItemSavedEventHandler
{
  public void OnItemSaved(object sender, EventArgs args)
  {
    // Extract the item from the event Arguments
    Item savedItem = Event.ExtractParameter(args, 0) as Item;

    // If we don't have an item or we're not saving in the master DB, ignore this save
    if (savedItem == null || !"master".Equals(savedItem.Database?.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
      return;

    if (!savedItem .TemplateID.Equals(new ID("{YOUR-TEMPLATE-ID}")))
      return;

    // Get the fields you care about and write out the file here
  }
}

Create a config patch file

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
    <events>
      <event name="item:saved">
        <handler type="Custom.Events.WriteFileItemSavedEventHandler, Custom" method="OnItemSaved"/>
      </event>
    </events>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>