Reset Item's Fields Programmatically

So do you ever needed to reset a sitecore item field to its standard values? You may know that you can do that from content editor for presentation details or insert options for one item at a time. But what if you need to do that for all items related to specific template? Can we do that programmatically?!

Yep you are lucky! Sitecore give you the ability to reset item fields to their standard value using back end code and in this post I will show you how you can do that! Yes you have to love SITECORE! :) J

I will show you two quick demo of how to reset presentation details and insert options from code with only couple of lines of code; 

Let’s start with resetting the insert options for items of a specific template, you need to know that the insert options is saved on a standard field with a name “__masters”, check the following code:

The same idea will be applicable for resetting the presentation details of an item, but in this case our target field will be “__renderings”, check the following code:

That’s it! You may need to know that this is applied to all item field, in other words you can reset any field to its standard value.

Hope this will help!