When you delete a Sitecore item programmatically using the item.Delete()
method in C#, any references to the deleted item will remain in the system, resulting in broken links. To remove these broken links, you can use the Sitecore LinkDatabase
.
Here is an example of how you can remove broken links to a deleted item:
var itemToDelete = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem("/path/to/item");
// Delete the item
itemToDelete.Delete();
// Get the item's ID
var itemId = itemToDelete.ID;
// Remove all references to the deleted item from the link database
var links = Sitecore.Globals.LinkDatabase.GetItemReferrers(itemToDelete, false);
foreach (var link in links)
{
var item = link.GetSourceItem();
if (item != null)
{
using (new Sitecore.SecurityModel.SecurityDisabler())
{
var field = item.Fields[link.SourceFieldID];
if (field != null)
{
var value = field.Value;
if (Sitecore.StringUtil.Contains(value, itemId.ToString()))
{
value = value.Replace(itemId.ToString(), string.Empty);
item.Editing.BeginEdit();
field.Value = value;
item.Editing.EndEdit();
}
}
}
}
}
In this example, We used Sitecore.Globals.LinkDatabase.GetItemReferrers(itemToDelete, false)
to get all the items that refer to the deleted item.
This should remove all broken links to the deleted item from the link database.