Why does the 'Deployed' state of the 'Analytics Workflow' modify my campaign item in Sitecore 8.1?

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I have an item under /system/Marketing Control Panel/Campaigns of type /templates/System/Analytics/Campaign, and it's in the /Workflows/Analytics Workflow workflow.

When the item's workflow state is 'draft', I can edit/save fields and they retain the values that I saved. When the item is given the 'Deployed' workflow state, the value of the 'Display Name' field always gets set to the value of the 'Title' field. Both when the item enters the state, and every time I edit/save the item.

This is only happening in 8.1 (not 8.0 or below), and happens if I set the state directly to 'Deployed', or if I move the stated to 'Deployed' through the workflow.

Sorry this gif is jacked up, but you can see when I change from draft to deployed, the name in the content tree changes, as well as the 'Display name' field. When I try to change it in the 'deployed' state, it changes it back immediately.

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Can you provide us with screen shots? – Ahmed Okour
I'm not a seeing a "Display Value" field in either version of 8.1, is it a custom field? Anything in the logs? – Derek Hunziker
@DerekHunziker oops, 'Display Name' – MStodd
@AhmedOkour added screen. I'll try with a new 8.1 out of the box – MStodd
@MStodd I just tested this on fresh 8.1 instance and couldn't reproduce this, Do you any custom Action under "Deployed" state? – Ahmed Okour

1 Answers

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I think this is a bug, however, I would confirm with Sitecore support to be 100% certain.

When you save an item, Sitecore will trigger the OnItemSaved event handler within Sitecore.Analytics.Data.Items.ItemEventHandler as shown below:

event handler

This handler checks to see if the item is in the final workflow state (which it is), and if so, deploys the definition and attempts to update the item's referring items with certain changes:

Item changes

However, instead of updating referring items, it appears to be re-playing changes against the current item, not the referring items. There is also a place where the title is updated specifically for campaigns.

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In short, I'm not sure why it's occurring and you should probably check with support on this one.