SetObjectAttributesEx not working

Hi,

I am moving a folder from one place to another and am trying to inherit the category and values from the destination folder. I've grabbed the category version and have the right ID but when I make the following call, nothing happens, no error, just doesn't do anything.

            //Initialize any LAPI Objects
            LAPI_DOCUMENTS doc = new LAPI_DOCUMENTS(session);
            LAPI_ATTRIBUTES attr = new LAPI_ATTRIBUTES(session);
            LLValue docID = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            LLValue children = (new LLValue()).setList();
            String nickName = "";

            //get root folder category

            //Get the object ID for the root folder
            LLValue rootObjID = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            rootObjID.add("ID", settings.TaxApp_Root_ID);

            //First, obtain a list of the folder's categories
            LLValue catIDList = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            doc.ListObjectCategoryIDs(rootObjID, catIDList);

            //loop through the categories and retrieve the catID
            LLValue catID = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            for (int i = 0; i < catIDList.size(); i++)
            {
                if ((catIDList.toValue(i).toString("DisplayName")).CompareTo
                    (settings.TAX_Category) == 0)
                {
                    catID = catIDList.toValue(i);
                }
            }

            //Get the category version for parent folder and file
            LLValue catVersion = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            doc.GetObjectAttributesEx(rootObjID, catID, catVersion);

            nickName = personID + "_" + applicantID;

            doc.GetObjectIDByNickname(nickName, docID);
            doc.MoveObject(settings.Volume_ID, docID.toInteger(), settings.Volume_ID,
                settings.TaxApp_Root_ID);

            doc.SetObjectAttributesEx(docID, catVersion);

I have also tried this same code and used the catVersion to instead create an object with the category as part of the createInfo. This works fine. It is only this setobject attributes call that is doing nothing.

Anyone ran into this before? (Doing this in C#)

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Satyanarayana_Rao

Hi Chris Canning,

I tried the same code what you gave, its working for me. Are you sure doc.GetObjectIDByNickname(nickName, docID); gave docID correctly. I didnt use this function to get docID, i gave directly. Please try in that way.

Thanks,

Satya

Supai systems.

Appu_Nair

Does this call give you success ?

doc.SetObjectAttributesEx(docID, catVersion);

but you are not looking at the status or session errors.The reason why this call may fail is usually because of this.In livelink, OOB,if you define a category with mandatory attributes and put them in a folder or container,you will NOT be asked to fill the mandatory fields ,but you cannot get away that easily with versionable things such as documents.So test what your code does manually with the livelink web gui,pretending the same things as the lapi code does.If it works and the lapi call does ,and it gives you success at that call then it warrants investigation using builder.

I attach a C# sample where I have tweaked what you were doing.First I tried putting the category to a version and at that time my category was not manadatory.In the second instance I made my category manadatory and the call failed.

otkb.cs

Cru

Thanks Guys,

It turns out that the LLValue returned by GetObjectIDByNickname is not properly structured to be passed into SetObjectAttributesEx. I didn't know about the error codes in the session variable which was helpful also. So I change the code to this and it its now working:

             doc.GetObjectIDByNickname(nickName, docID);
            doc.MoveObject(settings.Volume_ID, docID.toInteger(), settings.Volume_ID,
                settings.TaxApp_Root_ID);

            LLValue setobjID = (new LLValue()).setAssocNotSet();
            setobjID.add("ID", docID.toInteger());

            int status = doc.SetObjectAttributesEx(setobjID, catVersion);

            if (status != 0)
            {
                throw new Exception("Category not set after move. Reason: " + session.getStatusMessage());
            }

Thanks again.