This post is a follow up the post on using workflow I wrote a little while ago. You can read it here.
When you look deeper under the hood you’ll see that Sitecore does quite a lot of things via pipelines. A brief scan of the web.config will show a wide selection ranging from logging in, begin request, rendering fields and so on. These pipelines make it very simple to define a process and to support customisation and patching of that process. As a consequence its something that can be quite useful to include in our own code when we need to perform our own custom steps.
In the previous article, I wrote about how I was talking with another developer about sending newsletters from Sitecore. The original third party had done this as a publish step and checkbox. So the editor would check the box, publish and then the custom code would uncheck the box, save the item and then send the email. However I discussed how there were a number of issues with this approach. In this article, we’ll build on this and see how using pipelines can help.
