How to Set Custom Published, Created, and Modified Dates When Creating Content Items via Content API

[asteekgoswami]

Hi, I am using the Orchard Content API to create content items of type Article, but I want to set my own Published, Created, and Modified dates. However, these fields are automatically set to the current date and time. I need to migrate my existing articles into Orchard, so maintaining their original dates is important. Is there any way to set these fields manually during content creation?

[Piedone]

Just to confirm: setting these properties in the payload of the API call (what you can do) doesn't set them, they're overwritten automatically, right? Because I think that should work.

Alternatively, you can try importing from recipes. That's faster for such initial migrations anyway.

[asteekgoswami]

I want to import or migrate articles from a non-Orchard system and preserve their original created date by mapping it to the 'Created Date' field in Orchard