Updating Components using the Core Service in SDL Tridion 2011

Question

I am updating a Component using Core Service in Tridion 2011.

The sample code is as follows,

string COMPONENT_URI = \"tcm:8-674\";
string SCHEMA_URI          


        

Answer 1

Sometimes, specially if you are synchronizing the content from a different repository that acts as the master, you can just reconstruct the component from scratch. In that case, here is a basic example of how to do that:

    public static void updateComponent()
    {
        string componentWdUrl = "/webdav/020%20Content/Building%20Blocks/Content/wstest/testComponent.xml";
        CoreServicesUtil coreServicesUtil = new CoreServicesUtil();
        coreServicesUtil.coreServiceClient.CheckOut(componentWdUrl, true, coreServicesUtil.readOptions);
        ComponentData componentData = coreServicesUtil.getComponentData(componentWdUrl);
        SchemaData schemaData = coreServicesUtil.getSchemaData(componentData.Schema.IdRef);
        componentData.Content = xmlUtil.GetNewXmlNode("Content", schemaData.NamespaceUri);
        componentData.Metadata = xmlUtil.GetNewXmlNode("Metadata", schemaData.NamespaceUri);
        componentData.AddSingleField("singlefield", "singlefield sample", schemaData.NamespaceUri);
        componentData = (ComponentData)coreServicesUtil.coreServiceClient.Save(componentData, coreServicesUtil.readOptions);
        coreServicesUtil.coreServiceClient.CheckIn(componentData.Id, coreServicesUtil.readOptions);
        coreServicesUtil.coreServiceClient.Close();
    }

More description about methods used in this sample are explained in the article:

Faulted State error while creating component with Core Service