Simple Display Contents of A Folder

Hi Everyone

I am totally new at Worksite, I have searched everywhere for a solution regarding.

I need to display a list of documents sitting in a folder which itself resides within a workspace. all I need to accomplish is to display the list of documents in a folder

thank you in advaNCE

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jny

The IManDocumentFolder.Contents Property returns the collection of documents belonging to the folder.

[C#]
Using IManage;

//Assuming fldr is a valid handle to a WorkSite document folder object
IManDocuments dox = (IManDocuments)fldr.Contents;

4u2cnnv

The IManDocumentFolder.Contents Property returns the collection of documents belonging to the folder.

[C#]
Using IManage;

//Assuming fldr is a valid handle to a WorkSite document folder object
IManDocuments dox = (IManDocuments)fldr.Contents;

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Thank you for you response

Just to be a bit newbie, fldr object what do I initialize it to because I have in my example initiated it to the subscriptionfolder (mymatters) object and I tried using it but returned nothing I paste my code below. Currentyl what its doing is displaying the My Workspace Name I feel like I am on the right track but just missing something somewhere, my ultimate goal is to return documents from a folder I specify what build a hyperlink so that when I click I can preview the document in another Iframe and evetually give attendees right over dox I have all that in place my only problem now is return the documents in a list or tabular form for display.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
IManDMS myDMS = new ManDMSClass();
IManSession mySess = myDMS.Sessions.Add("myserver");
mySess.Login("myuid", "mypwd");
// Get the current user’s IManWorkArea object.
IManWorkArea oWorkArea = mySess.WorkArea;

IManDatabase oDB = mySess.PreferredDatabase;

// oWorkArea is the current user’s IManWorkArea
IManDocument oDoc = (IManDocument)oWorkArea.Worklist.ItemByIndex(1);

// Get the checked-out documents from the workarea.
IManContents oCheckedoutDox = oWorkArea.CheckedOutList;
// Get the favorites folder (My Favorites) from the workarea.
IManFavoritesFolder oMyFavorites = oWorkArea.FavoritesFolder;
// Get the subscription folder (My Matters) from the workarea.
IManSubscriptionFolder oMyMatters = oWorkArea.SubscriptionFolder;

Response.Write("
" + oMyMatters.Name + "

");
//IManDocumentFolder fldr = oMyMatters.Contents;
IManFolders oFolders = oMyMatters.SubFolders;

for (int i = 1; i == oFolders.Count; i++)
{
//IManDocumentFolder fldr = (IManDocumentFolder)oFolders.ItemByIndex(i).Contents;
//IManDocuments dox = oFolders.ItemByIndex(i).Name;
//IManFolders oFolder1 = oFolders.ItemByIndex(i).SubFolders;

//IManWorkspace oWorkspace = oFolders.ItemByIndex(i).Workspace;

//IManTabs oTabs = oWorkspace.Tabs;

Response.Write(i + " : " + oFolders.ItemByIndex(i).Name + "

");

/*//if (oFolder.Name == "MyWorkSpace")
//{

Response.Write(oWorkspace.Name + "

");

//IManFolder oFolder2 = oFolder.ItemByIndex(i);

for (int j = 1; j == oWorkspace.Name ; j++)
{
IManFolder dbFldr = oDB.GetFolder(oFolder1.ItemByIndex(j).FolderID);
Response.Write(dbFldr.FolderID + " Hello ");
//IManFolder oFolder = oFolders.ItemByIndex(i);
}
//}*/
}

4u2cnnv

Too answer my questions I did a new search based on the new information I had obtained and came across this article: and I tweeked it abit because of the errors the person had. In the very end it returned the document IDs as I wanted the code is as follows:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
IManDMS myDMS = new ManDMSClass();
IManSession mySess = myDMS.Sessions.Add("PLUTO");
mySess.Login("sabata", "the4u2cnnv");

IManDocumentFolders allFolders = BringBackAllDocs(mySess);
IManDatabase oDB = mySess.PreferredDatabase;
IManWorkspace specificWS = null;
IManDocumentFolder specificDF = null;
IManDocuments docsWanted = null;
IManContent objContent = null;

for (int i = 1; i == allFolders.Count; i++)
{
IManDocumentFolder checkFolder = (IManDocumentFolder)allFolders.ItemByIndex(i);
Response.Write(i + ": Specific Document Folder: " + checkFolder.Name + "
");

specificDF = (IManDocumentFolder)checkFolder;

IManDocuments dox = (IManDocuments)specificDF.Contents;

int x = 1;
int y = dox.Count;

while (x <= y)
{
objContent = dox.ItemByIndex(x);
Response.Write("ID: " + objContent.ObjectID + "
");
Response.Write("objectid: " + objContent.ObjectType.ObjectType.ToString() + "
");
//oDB.GetDocument(objContent.ObjectID, 1);
x++;
}
}
}

private IManDocumentFolders BringBackAllDocs(IManSession user_session)
{
IManWorkspace specificWS = null;
IManDocumentFolder specificDF = null;
IManDocumentFolders docsWanted = null;

try
{
IManDatabase oDB = user_session.PreferredDatabase;

foreach (IManWorkspace oWorkspace in oDB.Session.WorkArea.RecentWorkspaces)
{

specificWS = (IManWorkspace)oWorkspace;
Response.Write("Workspace name: " + specificWS.Name + "
");

} // end of cycling through all recent workspaces

//Return Folder back to calling program.
IManDocumentFolders allFolders = specificWS.DocumentFolders; // folders in WS.
docsWanted = allFolders;
}
catch (Exception error)
{
Response.Write(error.Message);
}

return docsWanted;

}

jny

Why not just use foreach to loop through each item in the document collection to obtain its id, like so:

IManDocuments dox = (IManDocuments)fldr.Contents;
string id = string.Empty;
foreach (IManDocument doc in dox)
{
id = doc.ObjectID;
}

kuruption213

When I run the following code I get an error telling me the cast is not valid...

(searchFolder contains the contents from a search that is performed. the searchfolder portion works because I see that it brings back a specific count when I run a search)

Imanage.IManDocuments iManDocs = (IManage.IManDocuments) searchFolder.Contents;

Not sure why this error is happening since Contents is a base interface for IManDocuments.

What I'm trying to do is bring back the documents from a search and place them in a datagrid displaying the author, create date, and other document properties.

kuruption213

never mind for whatever reason they would not change so I iterated through the contents results one by one setting them to a iManDocument. That worked fine and I took the values that I needed (author, description, etc.) and set against the properties of a custom class with the values I needed (author, description, etc) added to an array list and set the arraylist to the datagrid.