Programmatically setting value with Contentment property

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Hello!

I’m trying to set the value of a Contentment Data List programmatically but it’s not showing up in either the published content or in the back office (i.e. the property editor just has the ‘Add’ button).

I’ve taken a look at how the data is stored in the database and matched that in my code, which is:

// Save it as a - ["umb://document/384a88735d8141758d998beaebb82420"]
var itemUdi = Udi.Create("document", myTargetContent.Key);
var data = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new string[] { itemUdi });
content.SetValue("myAlias", data);

I’ve compared my programmatically saved value with that from a normal back office save and they are identical - does anyone have an idea what I might be missing please?

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The setting the property part looks correct to me.
Just checking, are you saving the content with the content service afterwards? :thinking:

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Thanks Lee. Yup, it’s part of a large migration script and the other properties were coming through OK.

I got this working in the end by saving it as a self-made string. But then after a PC restart I took another look and the original serialisation code worked just fine.

// Manually make the string representation of the array
var itemUdi = Udi.Create("document", myTargetContent.Key);
var data = "[\"" + itemUdi + "\"]";
content.SetValue("myAlias", data);

I believe this to be the work of gremlins.

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