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Create a Schema using TOM.Net API

I was a little frustrated today for not finding out soon enough about the SchemaFields class. Basically that's the class you need when creating a Schema programmatically using TOM.Net API in SDL Tridion 2011.

Creating the Schema is easy -- just use the new Schema(session, parentTcmUri) constructor, but creating the fields themselves is a bit tricky. You have to use the SchemaFields class, just like you would use ItemFields on a normal Component fields or on any Metadata fields collections.

The code below creates a Schema and adds one RTF field to it and one Keyword based field to its metadata fields:

Session session = new Session();

Schema schema = new Schema(session, new TcmUri("tcm:20-1-2")) {
    Title = "New Schema",
    Description = "Schema Description"
};

SchemaFields fields = new SchemaFields(schema);
fields.Fields.Add(new XhtmlFieldDefinition("NewField") {
    Description = "New Field Description",
    MinOccurs = 1, // mandatory
    Height = 5
});

KeywordFieldDefinition metaField = new KeywordFieldDefinition("MetaField") {
    Description = "New Meta Field Description",
    Category = new Category(new TcmUri("tcm:20-859-512"), session)
};
metaField.List.Type = ListType.Tree;
fields.MetadataFields.Add(metaField);

schema.Xsd = fields.ToXsd();
schema.Save(true);

Having problems creating a Session object? Have a look at my other post describing how to fix Session creation.

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