Why isn''t the ItemAdded Event fired?

Ok ... a few things to check

You mentioned a Console Application. I assume this was used to associate your custom Event Receiver class library with the List ?

Have you tried debugging your Event Receiver class and stepped through the code?

The "Item Added" event should fire every time an item is added. It doesn't make any difference who added the item or how it was added, so the user who is logged in should be irrelevant.

If you have an event receiver then it will execute under the system account, so security permissions shouldn't be a problem. However, just to eliminate anything like that, have you made sure that the "non administrator" account you are using has contributor permissions to BOTH Site A and Site B (and hence Picture 1 and Picture 2)?

regards

MKeeper

MKeeper at 2007-10-2 >

tannt wrote:

There is another thing. When i use the System Account to run this Console Application, It was ok. But when i used a "non administrator" account it announce that http://srv:2000/it is not found.

Administrator accounts in SharePoint are automatically made Administrators in SharePoint Central Administration.

Now, when you access your Site Collection (SPSite) in code then you need to be running as an account which has administration access to that site collection. I'm guessing that you haven't added the other account to SharePoint manually?

If the account that you are using to run your console application doesn't have admin permissions to sharepoint, then it won't be allowed to access the Site Collection. frustratingly you get a "not found" error instead of "access denied".

NOTE - you will find you get the same error message using the STSADM command line tool, if you are trying to run as an account that doesn't have Central Administration priveledges.

I'll answer your other problem in a separate post.

MKeeper at 2007-10-2 >

Thank you for your very clear instruction, Mkeeper!

I followed those steps to put my project in the Debugging mode. However, I couldn't step-through the code. It says that "Symbols not loaded" like what you discribed.

According to your NOTE above, there are two posibilities ( my event didn't fire, i made changes in my code). But, I used the System Account to upload picture in List PICTURE 1, and the picture is also uploaded to the list PICTURE 2. It means that the Event fired. I didn't make change to my code as well. To make sure, I go back to the step 3 -> 7. Actually, the symbols are still not loaded.

I will paste the code I write in the Event Receiver class for you to take a look.

string sourceList;

string sourceURL;

string destList;

string destURL;

SPSite sourceSite, destSite;

SPListItemCollection sourceListItems, destListItems;

SPFolder sourceFolder, destFolder;

SPListItem sourceItem, destItem;

SPFile sourceFile;

SPFileCollection destFiles;

StreamWriter sw;

sw = File.AppendText("C:\\LogFile.txt");

sw.WriteLine("Write some text to see whether the Event Item Added is fired or not");

try

sourceURL = http://SRV:2000/it/; //(site A)

destURL = "http://SRV:2000/"; //(site B)

sourceSite = new SPSite(sourceURL);

destSite = new SPSite(destURL);

sourceList = "PICTURE 1";

destList = "PICTURE 2";

sourceListItems = sourceSite.OpenWeb().Lists[sourceList].Items;

sourceItem = sourceListItems[sourceListItems.Count - 1];

sourceFolder = sourceSite.OpenWeb().Folders["PICTURE 1"].

destFolder = destSite.OpenWeb().Folders["PICTURE 2"].

sourceFile = sourceFolder.Files[sourceItem["Name"].ToString()];

destFiles = destFolder.Files;

string destFolderURL = destFolder.Url + "/" + sourceFile.Name;

byte[] binFile = sourceFile.OpenBinary();

destFiles.Add(destFolderURL, binFile);

catch (Exception ex)

The idea of the code above is copying the last picture in the Folder of the list PICTURE 1 to the Folder of the list PICTURE 2. I used SPFileCollection.

I think, when we used the System Account to run the Console Application to register the Event Handler for the List, the event ItemAdded will fired whenever there is new Item added into the List. Logically, this action does not depend on which account registered the event handler.

I also gave the "Contribute" permission for the "non administrator" account in two sites A and B. Therefore, I think if this acount has permission to upload new item, the ItemAdded even will be fired.

Those are my thinkings. Anybody has any idea?

Thanks!

tannt.

tannt at 2007-10-2 >

Thank you very much, MKeeper!

I created new project and a simple event handler. I got to correctly debug and step-through the code. If you take a look the code I posted last time, you can see that I made a big mistake.

StreamWriter sw;

sw = File.AppendText("C:\\LogFile.txt");

I put two lines of code at the beginning of the ItemAdded method. For the System Account, it has the permission to create and write to file. So, everything is ok. However, for the "non administrator" accounts, they don't have such permission. Therefore, I has the error right there.

This made me think that the ItemAdded event isn't fired if we use the "non administrator" account.

Again, thank you for your instruction how to debug the code in Event Handler.

tannt

tannt at 2007-10-2 >