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Read/Write multiselect property

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Guys, I again need your help. I'm going crazy with a (i think simple) problem, maybe you can help me out?
I've got a "onboarding" document, containing a multi-select property called "Department". It's a simple "choose from list Departments (multiselect).
At the And of the Onboarding, I create a Employee Object in the workflow and "copy" some of the onboarding property values. That works fine! I can copy text and single select (lookup).

What drives me crazy is to read a multiselect and write the same values to the "same" property in the new employee object.

I tried alot... at the moment i try it this way:

Read Multi-Select property

...
' Abteilung/Department
Dim ilookups_abteilung : set ilookups_abteilung = PropertyValues.SearchForProperty(1234).TypedValue.GetValueAsLookups
...


Write to the new object

...
' Abteilung
oPropVal.PropertyDef = 1234
oPropVal.TypedValue.SetValue MFDatatypeMultiSelectLookup, ilookups_abteilung
oPropValues.Add -1, oPropVal
...


That gives me a "type conflict"
What's the problem?
Regards
Chris
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  • I would add to Craig's comprehensive answer that as a consultant who needs to develop custom solutions every now and then I prefer using VAF even for "the small things". Once you get the hang of it, it really just takes minutes to create a new application and get it installed.

    From an administration and maintenance point of view, there's the added bonus of being able to see the list of vault applications which customize the vault functionality (as opposed to hunting through a dozen menus to find out if some workflow states have custom scripts associated and so on). It also makes it easier to build a new environment when you can just install the vault applications which provide the functionality and not having to copy-paste scripts to different places in M-Files Admin.

    Anyway, this is a bit off-topic...
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