Job ReferenceReplacementJob is obsolete, Replacing it with running pipeline "replaceItemReferences", also creating helper method to update links when creating items of branch templates

[aokour]

Job ReferenceReplacementJob is obsolete, Replacing it with running pipeline "replaceItemReferences", also creating helper method to update links when creating items of branch templates

[aokour]

As of Sitecore 8.2 Update 5, Job ReferenceReplacementJob is obsolete and sitecore asks to use pipeline "replaceItemReferences"instead, Also added support to update links for items created of branch items

[AlenPelin]

Thanks @aokour for contributing to the project. I had a quick look at your pull request and it seems you included too much changes so it is hard to see what is important.

May I ask you to keep only functional changes, so we can focus on important part?

P.S. Parts of these project already available in Sitecore 9.0.0 out of the box, others will be merged into next releases - so there is a chance for getting your contribution merged into the product itself :)

[aokour]

I will clean the pull request to only keep the functional changes and re-submit this again this week

[AlenPelin]

Thank you! I will look forward your update.

[cassidydotdk]

Yea there's definitely too much stuff in there. Kamsar's Branch presets and specific branch handling code has been included - none of this is necessary using SmartCommands.

[AlenPelin]

I noticed this project is getting more attention these days. I feel I need to revise and update it with current mainstream Sitecore 8.2+

[cassidydotdk]

The fundamental Sitecore problem these commands solve has been relevant since the dawn of time ;-)

I guess SXA drove them to bring the ReferenceReplacementJob into the core product. Now we just need them to realise what people actually expect when they're duplicating a tree with internal references.

[rbrunneratnamics]

I made a running version out of aoukur's version:
https://github.com/aokour/Sitecore-Smart-Commands
combined with an older version of your source AlenPelin. It runs on a Sitecore 8.2 solution, but would be nice to run on Sitecore 9+ too.

[cassidydotdk]

My version runs just fine on 9.1.1. Which is largely if not completely based on this branch. Mind you I've included the project on source level so I compile it against a 9.1.1.

9.2 will mostly involve changes around the ReferenceReplacementJob. Invoking it via reflection solves that problem in a cross version boundary.

[markgibbons25]

In Sitecore 10 ReferenceReplacementJob is not obsolete, however I see that this PR is actually just using the ReplaceItemReferences pipeline which instantiates ReferenceReplacementJob.