Open a document from an IManDocuments Collection?

dsaxman

Maybe I'm missing something painfully obvious, but can't figure out how to open a document in its native application using the Worksite 8.0 libraries and C#. I successfully have an IManDocuments collection returned from a search, but the CheckOut doesn't work from there. Below is the code snippet that returns my document and attempts the checkout.

public string SearchForFile(string Library, string DocNum, Int32 hWnd)
{
// Searches for a file and returns:
// 0: Document Not Found
// 1: 1 Document found. Opens document.

// Credentials and server name replaced for demo purpose
UserDMS udms = new UserDMS("username","pwd","serverinstance");

if (udms.IsLoggedIn == true)
{
//Form1.lblStatus.Text = "Log in successfull";
objSession = udms.Session;
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Login failed!");
return null;
}

IManWorkArea oWorkArea = objSession.WorkArea;
ManStrings colDBs = new ManStringsClass();
foreach(IManDatabase oDB in oWorkArea.Session.Databases)
{
colDBs.Add(oDB.Name);
}
IManProfileSearchParameters searchparams = oWorkArea.Session.DMS.CreateProfileSearchParameters();
searchparams.Add(imProfileAttributeID.imProfileCustom5, Library);
searchparams.Add(imProfileAttributeID.imProfileCustom17, DocNum);
IManDocuments oRetDox = (IManDocuments)oWorkArea.SearchDocuments(colDBs, searchparams, true);

// We get one document back from our search.
//string strResult = oRetDox.Count.ToString();

switch (strResult)
{
case "0":
strResult = "Document was unable to be located.";
break;
case "1":
strResult = "Document found!";
IManDocument objDoc = (IManDocument) oRetDox.ItemByIndex(1);

// I thought this section was supposed to do what I'm asking, but
// the document never gets checked out (at least according to the
// history log for the document.

OpenCmd cmd = new OpenCmd();
ContextItems context = new ContextItems();
context.Add ("ParentWindow", hWnd);
context.Add("SelectedNRTDocuments",objDoc);
cmd.Initialize(context);
cmd.Execute();

break;
default:
strResult = "An error occurred.";
break;
}

if (udms.IsLoggedIn == true)
{
udms.Logout();
}

// return results message.
return strResult;
}

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Steve

Edited by dsaxman on 05/09/05 12:38 PM (server time).

guido1

it could be that you're not passing an array of IManDocument objects to the OpenCmd

Try instead something like

IManage.IManDocument[] objDoc = new IManage.IManDocument[1];
objDoc[0] = (IManage.IManDocument) oRetDox.ItemByIndex(1);

and then pass objDoc to OpenCmd's contextitem, as in:

context.Add("SelectedNRTDocuments", objDoc);

Also, last year I had funny results with the supposed interoperability of IManxxx objects and their legacy counterpart NRTxxx objects. In some cases, passing, say, an NRTDocument object would work where the new IManDocument object didn't. I can't remember the instance exactly, but this may be one of them, so consider trying the following as an alternative also:

IManage.NRTDocumentClass[] objDoc = new IManage.NRTDocumentClass[1];
objDoc[0] = (IManage.NRTDocumentClass) oRetDox.ItemByIndex(1);


good luck..!