MIME type content returned as a string

System

Hello Techies--

I am adding to my existing .NET web service. Two use cases describe the need for my web service to manipulate MIME type files (or "to be" files) on the fly. In a nutshell, here are the scenarios:
1. A new email will be generated from another application and assigned an identifier. (read:The identifer will be stored under CUSTOM5)
2. The content of an existing stored email must be retrieved and passed to another application.

In the first case, I will be given the basic four profile details as a string--I'll also be given the email content as a string along with what I'll need to store in CUSTOM5.

In the second case, I will need to open the actual email by the identifier value stored in CUSTOM5 -- passing the profile information and the content of the email to a text string.

Can anyone direct me toward the best way to approach these two use cases?

Kind regards,
--P

Paula DiTallo - Middleware Architect/ .NET Developer
plditallo@metro-design-dev.com

jny

1. Since Custom5 is a validated lookup field, you would need to consume the IMANADMIN library to first insert the indentifier string as a new entry to the database table.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
try
{
object typMissing = Type.Missing;
INRTDMS adms = new NRTDMSClass();
INRTSession asess = adms.Sessions.Add("ntdevsupport", typMissing, typMissing);
asess.Login("nrtadmin", "MHDOCS");
if(asess.Connected)
{
INRTDatabase adb = asess.Databases.Item(1);
INRTDatabase2 adb2 = adb as INRTDatabase2;
adb2.InsertParentCustomField (AttributeID.nrCustom5, "<new_value>", "Test adding new values", true);
MessageBox.Show("Done inserting new values.");
}
}catch (COMException ce)
{
MessageBox.Show(ce.Source.ToString() + ": " + ce.TargetSite.ToString() + ": " + ce.Message);
}
Environment.Exit(0);
}

Then, you may use the IManage library to call SetAttributeByID imProfileCustom5, "<indentifier>" off of the new document object (which implies creating the new object via IManDatabase.CreateDocument) to set the identifier in the custom5 field.

2. Using the SearchDocuments Method, you should be able to search by custom5 field to retrieve the document from the WorkSite database. Once you have obtained the document, you may pass it to the OpenCmd to open the document in its native editor, which is Outlook in this case. The OpenCmd is exposed by the imanext.dll which is documented in the SDK manual, "iManage Extension Library Reference Manual.pdf".