How to open a document from another application?

I am trying to write a very simple application in C# that will simply take a document's id and open it.

I am new to the worksite SDK and I don't know what I am doing wrong, I tried using a console app but in order to have a window handle I switch to a winform app (with the form invisible).

I don't get any errors but nothing happens.

this is the code I am using:

OpenCmd cmd = new OpenCmd();
long handle = (long)this.Handle;
ContextItems contextItems = new ContextItems();
IManDMS DMSServer = new ManDMSClass();
IManSession CurrentSession = DMSServer.Sessions.Add("BDO-DMSTRAIN");

NRTDocument document = (NRTDocument)CurrentSession.WorkArea.Worklist.ItemByID("!nrtdms:0:!session:BDO-DMSTRAIN:!database:RASTRAIN:!document:389,1:");
contextItems.Add("ImanDMS", DMSServer);
contextItems.Add("IManExt.OpenCmd.Integration", true);
contextItems.Add("IManExt.OpenCmd.NoCmdUI", true);
contextItems.Add("ParentWindow", handle);
contextItems.Add("NRTDocument", document);
cmd.Initialize(contextItems);
cmd.Update();
cmd.Execute();

Please help!!!

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guido1

Some of the (older) ICommands seem to favour the NRTxxxxx object model as opposed to the IManxxxxx ones, so you should be able to get away with just supplying the "NRTDocument" and "IManExt.OpenCmd.Integration" context items, and not include the "IManDMS" one like so:

OpenCmd cmd = new OpenCmd();
long handle = (long)this.Handle;
ContextItems contextItems = new ContextItems();
IManDMS DMSServer = new ManDMSClass();
IManSession CurrentSession = DMSServer.Sessions.Add("BDO-DMSTRAIN");

NRTDocument document = (NRTDocument)CurrentSession.WorkArea.Worklist.Item ByID("!nrtdms:0:!session:BDO-DMSTRAIN:!database:RASTRAIN:!document:389,1:");
contextItems.Add("NRTDocument", document);
contextItems.Add("IManExt.OpenCmd.Integration", true);
cmd.Initialize(contextItems);
cmd.Update();
cmd.Execute();

Despite what the documentation may say ParentWindow isn't mandatory, although it's worth setting it.

rjb09

Hi Guido,

thanks for your answer.

When I run the application, it does checkout the document, but it doesn't open it.

I tried using the NRTDMS object or not providing either NRTDMS or IManDMS, it does the same.

I tried passing an array or NRTDocuments instead of a single one, same result.

I removed the windows handle and the same happens.

I checked the status of the command and it's 0, which means it has everything it needs to run.

The only issue I can think of and I am going to test is, because of other testing I was doing, I uploaded a document with the extension .xls (excel) when in reality it's a text document. Worksite correctly identifies it as a text file (should open with notepad) but Windows would try to open it with excel.

I will try uploading a file with the right extension to see what happens.

guido1

OpenCmd will just download the document to the appropriate directory in the C:\NrPrtbl folder tree and then check it out. It's up to you to open the document explicitly.

To do that you can either use the relevant object model (Excel, Word, whatever), or you can trust Windows to do the job for you by doing a ShellExecute or somesuch.

rjb09

Update, it does not make any difference.

Same result, it checks it out but does not open it.

rjb09

OpenCmd will just download the document to the appropriate directory in the C:\NrPrtbl folder tree and then check it out. It's up to you to open the document explicitly.

To do that you can either use the relevant object model (Excel, Word, whatever), or you can trust Windows to do the job for you by doing a ShellExecute or somesuch.

I didn't know that, thanks, yes, I will try opening it through Windows.

Arwin

When I do this, once Word 2007 with WorkSite integration (full) closes, it does not check the document back in. What does it take to make this happen?