Documents inheriting from folders

Hi

I've created a simple program that creates a workspace with some folders, then sets some values in the folders using the IManDocumentFolder.AdditionalProperties.Add() method.

On the face of it, it works perfectly fine, but when we drag a document (using FileSite 8.2) from one workspace into a workspace created using my program, the metadata of the document is not updated with the metadata of the folder. If you right-click on the folder in FileSite, click over to the Profile tab, click Add/Edit, then Save the profile form (without changing anything), it works properly (ie, any document dragged into the folder inherit it's additional properties properly). (In this particular case, I am trying to get the value in Custom3 to go down to the document, and it is correctly set in the folder and the workspace the folder is in - but I guess it applies to all of the properties in the profile.) This problem only seems to exist when dragging and dropping documents, if you try to save a document to the folder in Word, it inherits the properties fine.

I'm wondering if there is something that I need to call after I have used AdditionalProperties.Add() to make the properties inheritable when you drag a document into the folder?

Thanks
Gary

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garymccl

Some code to reproduce the problem:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using IManage;

namespace TestCreateWorkspace
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ManDMS dms = new ManDMS();
IManSession mySession = dms.Sessions.Add("192.168.11.129");
IManDatabase ContentDb = null;
IManWorkspace newWorkspace = null;
IManDocumentFolder newDocFolder = null;

try
{
mySession.Login("wsadmin", "wsadmin");
ContentDb = mySession.Databases.ItemByName("LEGAL");
newWorkspace = ContentDb.CreateWorkspace();
newWorkspace.Name = "refiling fault " + DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
newWorkspace.Description = "refiling fault " + DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
newWorkspace.SetAttributeByID(imProfileAttributeID.imProfileCustom16, "our client name");
newWorkspace.SubType = "work";
newWorkspace.Security.DefaultVisibility = imSecurityType.imPublic;

string filePath = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName();
IManProfileUpdateResult updateResult = newWorkspace.UpdateAllWithResults(filePath);
IManDocumentFolders targetDocSubfolders = (IManDocumentFolders)newWorkspace.SubFolders;
newDocFolder = targetDocSubfolders.AddNewDocumentFolderInheriting("doc folder", "description here");
newDocFolder.AdditionalProperties.Add("IMan___27", "12345");
newDocFolder.Update();

string tempFile = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName();

IManProfileUpdateResult updRes = newWorkspace.UpdateAllWithResults(tempFile);
if (updRes.Succeeded == true)
MessageBox.Show("update succeeded, result in " + tempFile);
else
{
foreach(IManProfileError pe in updRes.ErrorList)
MessageBox.Show(pe.Description + "\n" + tempFile);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
}
if (mySession.Connected)
mySession.Logout();
MessageBox.Show("done");
}
}
}

jny

The name that represents the prefix of the folder attribruteID is case-sensitive, and it should be "iMan" and not "IMan". Also, use the DocumentFolders Property instead of the SubFolders Property to return the document folder collection. Like so:

//~jny: use the DocumentFolders to return the document folder collection.
IManDocumentFolders targetDocSubfolders = (IManDocumentFolders)newWorkspace.DocumentFolders; //.SubFolders;
newDocFolder = targetDocSubfolders.AddNewDocumentFolderInheriting ("doc folder", "description here");
//~jny: Folder attributeID prefix is case-sensitive, and it s/b: "iMan___".
newDocFolder.AdditionalProperties.Add("iMan___27", "7000"); //("IMan___27", "12345");
newDocFolder.Update();

Additionally, you do not need to call update (or UpdateAllWithResults) off of the workspace object to make sure the folder properties are updated -- as calling Update (Folder) should suffice.

If, however, you feel that you must call UpdateAllWithResults (workspace) then you should not pass in a temp file. You should call GetCopy to download the XML file associated with the existing workspace. Then upload it with the UpdateAllWithResults Method. This will preserve any Web presentation of WorkSite contents, such as search forms which are not server-stored objects, should there be any that the end-user might have added in between.

garymccl

Ah - I knew it was case-sensitive, but I thought I got it right. Obviously not!

Thanks for your help, appreciated.

Gary