Set LastModifedBy when updating properties from a service account

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Hi all, 
 I wand to create and update documents in m-files from an ERP system. The ERP system has it's own user database. M-Files is using Windows auth. 
 For testing I've setup a small service that gets new and updated documents from the ERP system and updates m-files via REST-API accordingly. The service authenticates in m-files with a service account. The service has a mapping between ERP users and m-files users. 
 When creating new documents CreatedBy and LastUpdatedBy are set with the correct mapped m-files user (by setting properties 23 and 25). 
 But when I update metadata via a call to /objects/(type)/(objectid)/(version)/properties LastUpdatedBy is set to my service account and not to the user I put in property 23. 
 Is there a way to set the LastUpdatedBy to another user in this scenario? 
 thanks Tobias

Craig Hawker · Accepted Answer

Hi Tobias, 
 As Heidi Immonen-Isomäki said: this is a peer-to-peer forum and, as such, will typically get quite low traction during periods of holidays and the like. 
 I don't believe that it's possible to do this right now. The act of checking in the object will effectively overwrite the last-modified-by property. It would be possible to use some server-side code to set the value (e.g. you could set a different property, then use server-side code to read the value and set the last-modified-by). 
 That said: I would urge some caution with doing so. This would need to be written in such a way that the last-modified-by user is only updated in very controlled circumstances, otherwise the usefulness of the object history data is compromised. It may also affect some external auditing concerns. If this is a concern for you then I would consider whether the most appropriate approach would be to let the created-by and last-modified-by be the service account (as that, logically, is what has done the change), and store your values in separate metadata. 
 Regards, 
 Craig.

Set LastModifedBy when updating properties from a service account

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