Express Build Entry, setAuthor, maybe giving me problems?

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I’m using Concrete CMS v8.5.13 in my dev environment here, and I THINK my problem is in how I’m trying to set the Author ID, but if that is the case I’m not sure how I should do it.

I’m doing

$entry = Express::buildEntry(‘express_object_handle_goes_here’)
->setAuthor($userIDVariablePreviouslySet)
->setAnotherAttribute($variableWhatever)
->save();

I’m pretty sure this step in my code (because the debug output is unclear about the problematic line) is producing this error:

“Entity of type Concrete\Core\Entity\Attribute\Value\ExpressValue is missing an assigned ID for field ‘attribute_key’. The identifier generation strategy for this entity requires the ID field to be populated before EntityManager#persist() is called. If you want automatically generated identifiers instead you need to adjust the metadata mapping accordingly.”

So… am I barking up the right tree? And if so, what should I be doing instead?

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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I suppose I’m most interest in defining setAuthor() when building an Entry in scenarios where I want to use Author for various identity purposes, but in scenarios where at the time of the Entry creation I want the Author to be set to a user that is not who is logged in at the time (for intentional and “good” purposes, not tampering or whatever).

Hmmmm :thinking::thinking::thinking:

3

Well if I don’t declare setAuthor it by default is the logged in user. Really would prefer not to have to break this out into two steps if I want an Author different from the user logged in. Anyone have any ideas on how to make that happen?

4

You might try updating to the latest version of 8, or 9. It’s tough to troubleshoot older versions because your issue might be fixed in later ones.