Can't access community members list in event receiver when item is updated in console application

Question

Hi,
we attached an event receiver to a list in a community site template. In the ItemUpdated event we access different lists from the site. Everything is working fine when we update a list item in the web frontend logged in as Administrator (application pool
identity Administrator).
Updating an list item in a console application running as Administrator triggers the ItemUpdated event and accesses all lists - only the Community Member list can't be accessed.
SPWeb spWeb = properties.OpenWeb();
Guid communityMembersListGuid = new Guid("3b56d08b-be6b-408b-a2aa-c08722ad499b");
SPList communityMembersList = spWeb.Lists[communityMembersListGuid];
We added the Administrator with full access to the list, run the code with RunWithElevatedPrivileges and initialized the spSite with the account-token of the administrator. Nothing works.
Any idea?
Greetings Peter

Answer 1

Hi,
Please try to use the following code blow:
SPWeb spWeb = properties.Web;
SPList communityMembersList = spWeb.Lists["Community Members"];
If the issue still exists, I suggest you debug your code and provide the detail error message for further research.
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support