Issue After Progamatically setting RichText Value in Block List (Umbraco 16)

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1

I have Umbraco 16 running and I after some work I was able to publish programmatically to a rich text in a block list on a document. I started off by adding clean starter kit which has been a big help getting the CMS working. The issue I’m having is when a run the code below and I go to the content, it displays draft on the rich text. If I click create on the rich text it fixes the issue. I’ve got to import 500+ posts and I can’t go into every one to fix them manually. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Here’s the code I’m using to achieve setting the rich text value inside the blocklist:

var parentId = Guid.Parse(“8b97891b-bb88-4c50-827d-a458c3c2b7bb”);
var myValue = “Author bio test text Super Excited About it!”;
var dictionaryUdi = new List<Dictionary<string, string>>();
var contentUdi = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); //new GuidUdi(“element”, System.Guid.NewGuid());
var blocklist = new Blocklist();
var values = new List {
new() {
editorAlias = “Umbraco.RichText”,
alias = “content”,
value = myValue } };

dictionaryUdi.Add(new Dictionary<string, string> { { “contentKey”, contentUdi.ToString() } });
blocklist.layout = new BlockListUdi(dictionaryUdi);

blocklist.settingsData = ;
blocklist.contentData =
[ new ContentData { contentTypeKey = importContent.UmbBlockListContentKey,
key = contentUdi,
values = values } ];
var content = _contentService.Create(“Test Author”, parentId, “Author”);
content.SetValue(“title”, “my test title”);
content.SetValue(“metaDescription”, “my meta description”);
content.SetValue(“contentRows”, JsonConvert.SerializeObject(blocklist));
_contentService.Save(content);
_contentService.Publish(content, [“*”]);

I’m using the following model:

public class Blocklist
{
public BlockListUdi layout { get; set; }
public List contentData { get; set; }
public List<Dictionary<string, string>> settingsData { get; set; }
}

public class BlockListUdi
{
[JsonProperty(“Umbraco.BlockList”)]
public List<Dictionary<string, string>> contentUdi { get; set; }

public BlockListUdi(List<Dictionary<string, string>> items)
{
    this.contentUdi = items;
}

}

public class ContentData
{
public string contentTypeKey { get; set; }
public string key { get; set; }
public List values { get; set; }
}

public class ValueRow
{
public string editorAlias { get; set; }
public object culture { get; set; }
public object segment { get; set; }
public string alias { get; set; }
public string value { get; set; }
}

2

I’ve not ran your code but I recall setting the culture in my project that got things moving. Does the below help

_contentService.Save(content);
_contentService.PublishCulture(content, “en-US”);

3

It won’t let me set it to en-US. When I do that it says ‘only wilcard culture is supported when publishing content’. I have to pass [*] to get it to publish. But passing a wildcard is still showing draft.

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Note, I’m using V16. It appears PublishCulture has been deprecated in this version. Now it’s supoosed to be done like this:

_contentService.Save(content);

_contentService.Publish(content, [“en-us”]);

4

I didn’t get a chance to test your code and run it but as far as I recall Elements are saved then the parent node once published shows them as published.

Do you have a working repo, if after confirming the parent node is the one being published?

5

Thanks for your help!

I just got it working with Expose. I changed the model to:

public class Blocklist
{
    public BlockListUdi layout { get; set; }
    public List<ContentData> contentData { get; set; }
    public List<Dictionary<string, string>> settingsData { get; set; } = [];
    public List<Dictionary<string, string>> expose { get; set; } = [];
}

And then in the blocklist content I added:

            blocklist.settingsData = [
                new Dictionary<string, string> { { "contentKey", contentUdi.ToString() } }
            ];

            blocklist.expose = [
                new Dictionary<string, string> { { "contentKey", contentUdi.ToString() } }
            ];
6

Amazing! Glad you have it resolved