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Does anyone know if there is a unique id for objects within Teamsite that is the same across all versions of the object ?

(It looks like the object id changes for different version )

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Migrateduser

According to the iwattrib docs, prevversion will give you the objid of the previous version, so from any given version of a file you could walk back along the chain - but there's no way to go forward that I can see.

Hope that helps
Rob
rob@bagpipe.com

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rugged

Thanks.
However, I am looking for an id that is the same for all versions of an object.
Following the "chain" implies that each link of the chain has a different object id.

Edited by rugged on 08/09/02 05:37 AM (server time).

Migrateduser

I understood your question. From my experience, and the little bit of extra reading I did last to try and give you an answer, it does not seem that there is. I tried to suggest an alternative approach that might solve your problem.

Perhaps if you specify exactly what you are trying to do I can give you a better answer.

If you think about it, logically there will not be an id that is valid across versions of an object, because there are not multiple versions of an object. There are multiple versions of files (and presumably directories) - each version is a different object. That said, I can see some value in what you're looking for, so perhaps you should put in an RFE to have them add an attribute called famid or something which could collect related versions into a group.

Cheers,
rob@bagpipe.com

rugged

Thanks for your help. I think I might make that request, although I need the feature now, not later.

Once again thanks.

smigster

I've got the same requirement. What I wound up doing was saving the "original" objid as an extended attribute of a DCR. When the DCR gets submitted and the staging version of the DCR gets a new objid the original objid remains intact in the extended attribute. When someone does a Get Latest, and yet another objid is created for the new copy, it is still associated with the original objid through the extended attribute. The only thing you have to deal with is the Copy option on the File menu. You have to either disable or replace it because using it winds up with two different files with the same extended attribute "ID" -- which is a no-no.