Added OnSaveEvent

[samjgriffin89]

Added an option in the CustomItem.config to enable an OnSaveEvent that will update existing custom base templates.

[dunston]

@samjgriffin89 your pull request is missing pipeline/AutoUpdate.cs.

I'm trying to pull the request into https://github.com/1508/Custom-Item-Generator

Would be great if you could push it

[samjgriffin89]

Added the pipeline. Thanks for pointing that out, not sure how I missed it.

[samjgriffin89]

@dunston I know its been awhile since this was committed, but have you had a chance to review the changes?

[gabrielboys]

Looking at this stuff now, sorry about the delay.

[samjgriffin89]

So is this maintained anymore or is it not worth continuing on this?

[gabrielboys]

I did look through your code and was working on folding that into the project when I got side tracked with project work. Tim Braga just wrote a post about this here as well http://allthingssitecore.com/2014/04/07/auto-generating-custom-items-on-save

When I looked into it there was more than on way to accomplish this same task, each with it's own pluses and minuses. I went through a few scenarios using both pipelines and events, I would have to go back and look at what the benefits/risks for each approach were exactly, but for example in one case the generation code was getting called repeatedly which is less than ideal. Hopefully fairly soon I will have some time to finish bringing the auto generation code into the project as well as possibly writing a blog post about the various ways that it could be done.

[samjgriffin89]

Yeah, I saw the blog post and think we can definitely improve upon the code I put together - it was certainly a while ago and I haven't touched it in a while. No rush, I was just curious if it was something that was still being maintained and if I should come back to work on it some more.

[gabrielboys]

Yes in general we are still maintaining the tool, just tough sometimes to find the necessary time to do things in a reasonable way. This feature and some updates based around new versions of Sitecore/.NET are next in the queue.

A while back I had Rocks integration mostly done as well, but that was a few years ago and I think things have changed with how you build Rocks plugins. I would like to finish this up at some point, would really be helpful for people that use the CIG and Rocks.