This feature appeared in Sitecore 8.2, which is changing the workflow state value for datasource items together with the context page item (only in Experience Editor). Here is a great summary article related to these improvements.
I was not fully satisfied with this because by default this only collects the datasource items and does not the children items of a datasource. This is an issue when you have something like a list component which shows the children items. What I have found is:
<command name="webedit:workflowwithdatasourceitems" type="Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.WebEdit.Commands.WorkflowWithDatasourceItems, Sitecore.ExperienceEditor" />
So I just needed to overwrite this command and put my logic there:
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| using Sitecore; | |
| using Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.Utils; | |
| using Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.WebEdit.Commands; | |
| using Sitecore.Workflows.Simple; | |
| using System.Linq; | |
| namespace Helix.Skeleton.Foundation.ContentWorkflow.Commands | |
| { | |
| public class WorkflowWithDatasourceItemsAndChildren : WorkflowWithDatasourceItems | |
| { | |
| protected new void WorkflowCompleteCallback(WorkflowPipelineArgs args) | |
| { | |
| base.WorkflowCompleteCallback(args); | |
| var datasources = ItemUtility.GetItemsFromLayoutDefinedDatasources( | |
| args.DataItem, | |
| Context.Device, | |
| args.DataItem.Language); | |
| foreach (var child in ItemUtility.FilterSameItems(datasources).SelectMany(d => d.Children)) | |
| { | |
| if (child.Access.CanWrite() && (!child.Locking.IsLocked() || child.Locking.HasLock())) | |
| { | |
| WorkflowUtility.ExecuteWorkflowCommandIfAvailable( | |
| child, | |
| args.CommandItem, | |
| args.CommentFields); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
And the related config what I have mentioned above:
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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> | |
| <configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/"> | |
| <sitecore> | |
| <commands> | |
| <command name="webedit:workflowwithdatasourceitems" type="Helix.Skeleton.Foundation.ContentWorkflow.Commands.WorkflowWithDatasourceItemsAndChildren, Helix.Skeleton.Foundation.ContentWorkflow" /> | |
| </commands> | |
| </sitecore> | |
| </configuration> |
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