ContextItems content in ICommand when clicking on left hand pane

cmscmadd

Just looking for a bit of help regarding creating a custom command in
worksite with v8.2 of the SDK.

I've created an assembly and hooked it all up in the registry so that when
you right-click on a workspace in the left hand pane in Outlook the menu
pops up with my new custom option on there. That bit is fine, the bit
that isn't fine is that when I try to access the context item values
listed in page 15, table 2.2 of the Creating Custom Commands in WorkSite
guide, most of them are unavailble to me, even the ones marked "When
present... Always", such as SelectedContainer. The only ones that work
are NRTDMS, ParentWindow and SelectedNRTSessions.

In essence all I want to be able to do is to right click on a workspace in
the left hand pane and get all of the details about that workspace , name,
id, etc.

Can you please advise.

jny

Just looking for a bit of help regarding creating a custom command in worksite with v8.2 of the SDK. I've created an assembly and hooked it all up in the registry so that when you right-click on a workspace in the left hand pane in Outlook the menu pops up with my new custom option on there. That bit is fine, the bit that isn't fine is that when I try to access the context item values listed in page 15, table 2.2 of the Creating Custom Commands in WorkSite guide, most of them are unavailble to me, even the ones marked "When present... Always", such as SelectedContainer. The only ones that work are NRTDMS, ParentWindow and SelectedNRTSessions. In essence all I want to be able to do is to right click on a workspace in the left hand pane and get all of the details about that workspace , name, id, etc. Can you please advise.

You may use any of these contextitems to return a handle to the selected workspace object:

[VB]

Private Sub ICommand_Execute()

    'MsgBox "Custom command executed!"

    Dim ws As IManWorkspace

    On Error Resume Next
    Set ws = mContext.Item("SelectedFolderObject")
    Set ws = Nothing
    Set ws = mContext.Item("SelectedIManObject")
    Set ws = Nothing
    Set ws = mContext.Item("SelectedContentsContainer")
    Set ws = Nothing
    Set ws = mContext.Item("DestinationObject")
    Set ws = Nothing
    Set ws = mContext.Item("IManDestinationObject")

    Exit Sub

ExecuteError:

    ' Error handling code could go here.  The error handling code should not
    ' explicitly raise any errors.

    ' END EXAMPLE OF A POSSIBLE EXECUTE IMPLEMENTATION

End Sub

In C# you would probably need to cast the return value to an IManWorkspace type object first. Like so:

IManWorkspace ws = (IManWorkspace)mContext.Item("SelectedFolderObject");