Unable to update available content types on SPContentType.Name

Updating content type.name property does not reflect in web.Availablecontenttypes.
cTypeToBeModified.Name = "IXT_D";
cTypeToBeModified.UpdateIncludingSealedAndReadOnly(true);//since content type is read only
web.Update();
This is specific to Chinese traditional environment -
- English Win2k8 Std R2
- Traditional Chinese MUI deployed
- English SQL 2008,
- CHT SP 2010 Server STD SP2
Any ideas on this?
shwetank

Hi,
I did a test with the code below and it works properly, please refer:
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sp/sites/mysite");
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
SPContentTypeId id = new SPContentTypeId("0x0104");
SPContentType type = web.ContentTypes[id];
type.Name = "Announcement2";
type.Update();
Console.Write(web.AvailableContentTypes[id].Name);
More information about Update method of SPContentType for your reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms472234.aspx
Feel free to reply with the test result if the issue still exists.
Best regards
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support

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$historyList=$web.Lists["Workflow History"]
$ct=$list.ContentTypes["Link"]
$culture=New-Object System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")
$wfTemplate=$web.WorkflowTemplates.GetTemplateByName("Three-State",$culture)
$associationWF=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowAssociation]::CreateListContentTypeAssociation($wfTemplate, "myThreeStateWF",$taskList,$historyList)
$ct.WorkflowAssociations.Add($associationWF)
$ct.UpdateWorkflowAssociationsOnChildren($true,$true,$true,$false)
Here is a demo about how to update it using C#
http://www.thorntontechnical.com/tech/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-associate-workflow-to-content-type-in-a-feature
Wayne Fan
TechNet Community Support

Can't find content type?

First off, I just want to thank the people that take time out of their day to answer questions on this, or any forum for that matter. You people empower thousands of others with your knowledge.
I'm working in code behind for a custom edit list form, trying to get a custom content type I created in this solution to create a new document set off of. Both my custom list and my custom document set content types show up in site settings, but in code
I can't find the custom document set content type.
SPContentType documentSetCT = currentWeb.ContentTypes["Document Set"]; //gets OOB "Document Set" content type
SPContentType customListCT = currentWeb.ContentTypes["CustomList"]; //gets my custom content type based off Item
SPContentType customDocumentSetCT = currentWeb.ContentTypes["customDocumentSet"]; //Finds nothing
Thoughts? What am I doing wrong here?
- Daniel

Hi,
Does this custom content type appear in the “Site Settings”->”Site Content Types” page?
I suggest you retrieve all the content types programmatically to check whether your custom one exists.
The code below will retrieve all the content types for your reference:
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sp"))
using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
SPContentTypeCollection cts = web.ContentTypes;
foreach (SPContentType ct in cts)
Console.WriteLine(ct.Name);
Feel free to reply if the issue still exists.
Best regards
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support

Unable to update available content types on SPContentType.Name

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