Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Using publishing events to send a publish completion e-mail

Sitecore has no out-of-the-box provision to notify content authors when publishing gets completed or fails. Notifying users becomes very important when a longer publishing gets completed and, even more importantly, when it fails in order to remind them to publish it again.

In this recipe, you will learn how we can send e-mails to the publisher user on publishing completion using the publish:complete event. After this, you will be able to send e-mails after publishing fails or expires.

How to do it…

We will first create an event handler class that will extract all publishing parameters and send an e-mail with publishing details:

1. In the SitecoreCookbook project, create a new SendEmail class ...