>From memory, the only issue I ran into was with a custom Document
Information panel.

I wound up cleansing the Office document metadata with a tool and setting
the list's template URL property to null.

On 16 May 2013 08:06, Web Admin <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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