Smart and Incremental publish using SiteCron for Sitecore

In this blog post we will be looking into building two SiteCron jobs, one for Smart publish and one for Incremental publish.

1. Add a reference to Quartz.dll in your project
2. Implement a new class called SmartSitePublishJob which implements Quartz.IJob, sample code is shown below:

       public class SmartSitePublishJob : IJob
       {
           public void Execute(IJobExecutionContext context)
           {
               Log.Info("SmartSitePublishJob Execute - Start", this);
   
               Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");
   
               Database[] targetDBs = new Database[] { Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("web") }; //you can get this via config if you need customize targets
               Language[] languages = languages = LanguageManager.GetLanguages(master).ToArray();
   
               Sitecore.Publishing.PublishManager.PublishSmart(master, targetDBs, languages);
   
               Log.Info("SmartSitePublishJob Execute - End", this);
           }
       }
   

3. Implement a new class called IncrementalSitePublishJob which implements Quartz.IJob, sample code is shown below:

       public class IncrementalSitePublishJob : IJob
       {
           public void Execute(IJobExecutionContext context)
           {
               Log.Info("IncrementalSitePublishJob Execute - Start", this);
   
               Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");
   
               Database[] targetDBs = new Database[] { Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("web") }; //you can get this via config if you need customize targets
               Language[] languages = languages = LanguageManager.GetLanguages(master).ToArray();
   
               Sitecore.Publishing.PublishManager.PublishIncremental(master, targetDBs, languages);
   
               Log.Info("IncrementalSitePublishJob Execute - End", this);
           }
       }
   

4. Build and deploy to the Sitecore folder
5. Login to Sitecore admin and go to /sitecore/system/Modules/Sitecron
6. Add a new SiteCron job and name it Scheduled Smart Publish and set the values accordingly (Mon – Fri, run at 6:15AM):
   
7. Add a new SiteCron job and name it Scheduled Incremental Publish and set the values accordingly (Mon – Fri, run at 3:30AM):
   
8. Once saved the jobs are added to the scheduler and triggered accordingly.

Here are some useful links:

Video: SiteCron Demo
GitHub: https://github.com/akshaysura/Sitecron
Market Place: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/S/Sitecron
For help with Cron Expressions you can use http://www.cronmaker.com/
You can get more information about the Cron triggers and examples from Quartz.NET Scheduler website at: http://www.quartz-scheduler.net/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorial/crontriggers.html

If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch with me.