ScheduledItem.IsScheduledItem Method

Article
10/23/2013

Static method to confirm that a SPListItem item is a valid instance of the ScheduledItem class.

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing
Assembly: Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function IsScheduledItem ( _
    sourceListItem As SPListItem _
) As Boolean

'Usage
Dim sourceListItem As SPListItem
Dim returnValue As Boolean

returnValue = ScheduledItem.IsScheduledItem(sourceListItem)

public static bool IsScheduledItem(
    SPListItem sourceListItem
)

Parameters

sourceListItem
Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem
SPListItem to check for validity

Return Value

Type: System.Boolean
Set to True if the SPListItem is a ScheduledItem; otherwise, set to False.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
[System.ArgumentNullException]	The sourceListItem parameter cannot be a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Remarks

Confirms that the SPListItem is a member of a document library that supports scheduling, and that it has start and end dates, which are required for scheduling.

Examples

This sample sets a start and end date for a ScheduledItem object and schedules the item so that it is published when the start date is reached and it is unpublished when the end date is reached.

Before compiling and running this sample, verify that the SPListItem is a list item in a document library that supports scheduling.

[c#]

using ScheduledItem = Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.ScheduledItem;
using SPModerationStatusType = Microsoft.SharePoint.SPModerationStatusType;
using SPListItem = Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem;
using DateTime = System.DateTime;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointServer.Samples
{
    public static class ScheduledItemCodeSamples
    {
        public static void SetDatesAndSchedule(SPListItem listItem, 
          DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
        {
            // TODO: Set the input parameter values with
            // your own values.
            
            //
            // validate the input parameters
            if (null == listItem)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException("listItem");
            }

            // Get the ScheduledItem wrapper for the SPListItem
            // that was passed in.
            //
            ScheduledItem scheduledItem = null;
            if (ScheduledItem.IsScheduledItem(listItem))
            {
                scheduledItem = ScheduledItem.GetScheduledItem(listItem);
            }
            else
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentException
                  ("The document library containing this SPListItem must support scheduling", 
                  "listItem");
            }

            // Set and save the date values.
            scheduledItem.StartDate = startDate;
            scheduledItem.EndDate = endDate;
            scheduledItem.ListItem.Update();

            // Schedule the item so that the StartDate and EndDate
            // take effect.
            scheduledItem.Schedule();
        }        
    }
}