Identifying deleted nodes

Hi,

What's the correct strategy for identifying soft deleted nodes?
So far I haven't found any properties or methods that can directly tell me if a node has been soft deleted.
For OTCS 10.0 it was possible to check if the paren't node type was a specific kind,
but for OTCS 10.5 that doesn't work.

It is possible to walk up the chain of parents, and determine if the top node's name is "Recycle Bin",
but this solution doesn't look robust, plus it requires more round trips to CWS.

Is there a better way?

Feature request: Would be great if a IsDeleted property could be added to the node API.

Thanks,
Frank

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Kevin_Mark

There isn't a way to check if a document has been soft deleted. The closest I found was the GetVolumeID() on the Node SDO, but this could be misleading if the document's parent was a project (which has its own volume).

Do you have Recycle Bin installed, as well as the Undelete functionality? What version of content Server are you running?

Frank_Gynnlid

Quoted Kevin Mark on 10/16/2014 08:24 AM:

Do you have Recycle Bin installed, as well as the Undelete functionality? What version of content Server are you running?

Thanks for your reply.
I'm running 10.5 now, seems to be a change in behavior from 10.0 to 10.5, as it was easier to detect this before (the parent's node type was of a specific type).
Recycle Bin is by default installed it seems, as well as the Undelete functionality.

I'll check more into the volume ID approach, seems more robust and quicker than walking up the chain of parents.
Haven't found a way to retrieve volume IDs through the CWS. Do you know if the IDs for the deleted volume/recycle bin is reused
for all deployments?

jdonpaul

Hi Guys,

Frank, you are correct that the behavior has changed in CS 10.5. What happens to a soft delete file is that it is marked as deleted and the Distributed Agents comes to complete the delete. There is an actual column in DTREECORE that handles the marking of the file. In the case of recyclebin, you would need to go to the parent and check the object type. Otherwise, you would most likely need to query the database for the results.

In short, this sounds like a perfect candidate for a Feature Request for CWS.

Frank_Gynnlid

Quoted Jerome Don-Paul on 10/17/2014 09:12 AM:

Hi Guys,

In short, this sounds like a perfect candidate for a Feature Request for CWS.

Hi,

thanks for your insight Jerome.

Next question is, how do I file a feature request for CWS?

Thanks,
Frank

jdonpaul

Just create a ticket with Customer Support and give them all the details. They will log the feature request for you.

Frank_Gynnlid

Quoted Jerome Don-Paul on 10/20/2014 08:52 AM:

Just create a ticket with Customer Support and give them all the details. They will log the feature request for you.

Thanks!

Regards,
Frank