Well that's all that matters in the long run. :)

Regards,

Paul Noone

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On 15 May 2013 16:26, Nigel Witherdin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Paul,
>
> The commented code was setting the Content Type properties in a hashtable
> and applying that on file upload, but no that wasnt working. I suspect the
> Office 2003 doc was then promoting its properties to SharePoint and
> overwriting this setting.
>
> My code then goes processes a CSV (for original property data for each
> item from the old DMS), XML (for data mapping conversions of these old
> values to new SharePoint property values), and a huge switch statement that
> sets the new property value for different types of SharePoint columns,
> updating the item after ever property value had been set.
>
> I found that if I then re-set the content type setting after all of this
> done, the content type setting stuck (I assume this is occurring after the
> document had promoted its properties).
>
> Like I said, probably not the most efficient thing in the world, but its
> working now :D
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nigel
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:57:23 +1000
> Subject: Re: Issues Uploading Office 2003 docs to SP 2010 Programmatically
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Nigel,
>
> In my experience you need to set the properties before adding the file,
> which your commented code was already doing.
>
> Did that not work for you?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 15 May 2013 13:55, Nigel Witherdin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ok - have come up with a kludge of a fix.
>
> I upload the file, get the item, set the content type, set all the
> metadata then get the item again and set the content type again. This time
> the content type setting seems to stick.
>
> Yay - only took a few additional round trips to the database to re-get the
> item, re-set the content type....maybe not so yay after all
>
> Oh well, at least it works now ;)
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Subject: RE: Issues Uploading Office 2003 docs to SP 2010 Programmatically
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 02:15:18 +0000
>
>
> I thought setting the ParserEnabled to false would prevent any property
> promotion/demotion. See -
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.parserenabled.aspx
>  and
> http://sharepointserver-2007.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/sharepoint-spweb-property-parserenabled.html
>
> But unfortunately, Office 2003 docs are still ruining my day....
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Issues Uploading Office 2003 docs to SP 2010 Programmatically
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 01:05:55 +0000
>
>  Promotion of properties is my daily nemesis these days. I share your
> pain.
>
> In the past I used to overcome this by uploading using the frontpage RPC –
> which allows you to set the promoted properties in XML before sending it to
> the site. However, it is cumbersome to use, and the object model should do
> what it is told!
>
>
>
>
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>  *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of * Nigel Witherdin
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 May 2013 10:37 AM
> *To:* OzMoss; Conrad Grobler
> *Subject:* Issues Uploading Office 2003 docs to SP 2010 Programmatically
>
>  Hi All,
>
>  We are using an in-house developed tool to upload files from old DMS
> into SharePoint 2010, and are finding we are having issues with Office 2003
> docs. The tool uploads the file, sets content type, and then set metadata
> (as read from a CSV). This all works fine for PDFs, DOCXs, etc. but it does
> not work with DOCs. Frustratingly, it doesn't report any errors, and the
> logging info looks just fine for these files.
>
>  Instead of being set to the specified content type, they are always set
> to the default content type of the library, and do not have the metadata
> values set as expected.
>
>  The code being used to upload the file and set the content type (both
> ways it has been tried) is:
>
>               targetList.ParentWeb.ParserEnabled = false;
>              targetList.ParentWeb.Update();
>
>              //Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
>
>              //ht.Add("ContentTypeId", targetCt.Id.ToString());
>              //ht.Add("ContentType", targetCt.Name);
>
>              //SPFile file = targetFolder.Files.Add(filename, fs, ht,
> true);
>              //file.Update();
>
>              SPFile file = targetFolder.Files.Add(filename, fs, true);
>              file.Update();
>              file.ParentFolder.Update();
>
>              file.Item[SPBuiltInFieldId.ContentTypeId] = targetCt.Id;
>              file.Item[SPBuiltInFieldId.ContentType] = targetCt.Name;
>              file.Item.UpdateOverwriteVersion();
>
>              targetList.ParentWeb.ParserEnabled = true;
>              targetList.ParentWeb.Update();
>
>  I have done some googling on the issue, and can see that other people
> have had different issues with SP 2010 and Office 2003, but nothing that
> definitively states there is an issue loading these
> files programmatically (and setting CT and metadata).
>
>  I have been able to quite happily load the file manually, and set CT and
> metadata.
>
>  I suspect the properties in the DOC files are promoting and overwriting
> the values set against the item by the tool, but cant find anything to
> prove this (no additional versions in history etc).
>
>  Whilst I could convert the DOCs to DOCXs, as these are legal documents,
> I suspect there will be restrictions in place that they must be unaltered.
>
>  Has anyone suffered anything similar? Any solutions/code samples would
> be greatly appreciated
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Nigel
>
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