Sitecore: Get child items of parent item when the items are in publish restricted period

Question

I am trying to get the children items of a Item.,of which some of the child items applied publish restrictions and there end date had expired. I want to collect all the child items, whether it's end expired or not. when i debugged my code i got only those items which have end date in time. I have used following code

var childItems=item.GetChildren();

the child items collection is collecting only those child items which have there end date in time.

is there any method to collect all the items??

I have asked in sitecore forum, they asked to get child items from master database, but that approach also not working. i have tried following code also.

Sitecore.Data.Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");
Item parentNode= master.GetItem("ItemNAme");
var childItems=parentNode.GetChildren();

The childitems is only collecting those child items whose end date is not expired Please suggest me some solution for this

Thanks in advance

-Vaibhav

Mark Ursino Mark Ursino · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-24T18:35:12

What you said about going to the master database is correct, as the master contains all versions of all pieces of content, not just publicly published content. I would wrap your code in a SecurityDisabler() in case that is somehow interfering with getting the right items.

using(new SecurityDisabler()) {
    Sitecore.Data.Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");
    Item parentNode= master.GetItem("ItemNAme");
    var childItems=parentNode.GetChildren();
}

Sitecore: Get child items of parent item when the items are in publish restricted period

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