Save & Publish with descendants does not save or publish the actual root node

[Migaroez]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

Any v10 and upwards

Bug summary

Save & Publish with descendants publishes any children that are unpublished but have saved changes as expected. What seems unexpected is that changes made on the document where you are sending the intent from does not actually gets saved and published resulting in lost changes.

Specifics

Came across this issue trying to solve #14543, fixed that and this related bug, resulting in functional breaking behavior.
The original reported issue has been fixed in #14922 with the breaking behavior removed but this related 'bug' still exists.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a root document
• Create a child under the root
• Rename the root and hit Save & Publish with Descendants.
• Refresh the page

Expected result / actual result

Actual: The page rename is discarded and no message was shown that this was going to be the case.
Expected: The root is saved and published alongside any children that were in a saved state.

---

This item has been added to our backlog AB#33601

[NurhakKaya]

Hi,

I have started working on this issue.

Cheers,

Nurhak

[NurhakKaya]

I can confirm that this is happening with the following Umbraco version. I'm now investigating the issue.

Umbraco version 12.2.0-rc.preview.62

[NurhakKaya]

I have just had a chat with @Migaroez and he has warned me that this is an issue that needs to be discussed first before making any code changes, hence I'm stopping working on this issue.