How to search unmanaged object by using Property ?

That won't work. Unmanaged objects are not registered in the M-Files database, they are only in the indexer if understand the concept correctly. Your search is looking in the MF database and won't find anything.

Hi, 

Thank you for the answer, Is that not possible at all ? I dont understand one thing that why do we have filters like MFSearchFlags.MFSearchFlagIncludeUnmanagedObjects ? where is that being used ?

Unmanaged objects are available in the full-text search index, but they aren't objects in the vault database and so don't have properties that you can query.

Thank you, I have seen that there is an API ExternalObjectOperations where I see PromoteObject method which accepts ObjVer type of objects. I could not find any documentation about it.  Do you have any links how to search and promote the objects using Full Test search ?

If you're talking about search then you would run the search against the full text index (e.g. Search conditions in the M-Files API), then use the ObjVer returned in the search results.

If you're talking about manually creating an ObjVer to promote it, then the ObjVer class has properties for the external repository name and external repository object ID which you would need to populate.

Hi,

I will try this. Thank you

Where should we run this code ? I run the below code in a separate test application where I connected and authenitcated the vault using API by supplying credentials

var searchConditions = new SearchConditions();
{
var condition = new SearchCondition();
condition.Expression.SetPropertyValueExpression((int)MFBuiltInPropertyDef.MFBuiltInPropertyDefRepository, MFParentChildBehavior.MFParentChildBehaviorNone);
condition.ConditionType = MFConditionType.MFConditionTypeEqual;
var lookup = new Lookup();
lookup.ExternalRepositoryName = "90bb252efa09494b8662332ba5d49d77"; // The connection ID, shown in the configuration.
condition.TypedValue.SetValue(MFDataType.MFDatatypeLookup, lookup);
searchConditions.Add(-1, condition);
}


var results = Vault.ObjectSearchOperations.SearchForObjectsByConditionsEx(searchConditions, MFSearchFlags.MFSearchFlagIncludeUnmanagedObjects, false, MaxResultCount: 0, SearchTimeoutInSeconds: 0).Cast<ObjectVersion>();
foreach (var item in results)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(item.ObjVer.ObjID.ExternalRepositoryName))
continue;
Console.WriteLine($"{item.Title} ({item.ObjVer.ObjID.ExternalRepositoryName})");
}

How do you connect to the vault?  My guess is that you're not specifying that you support unmanaged objects.  The default is to exclude unmanaged objects as they operate differently to standard objects, and API code needs to be careful not to make assumptions.

To specify that you support unmanaged objects you need to correctly set the client capabilities inside the connection data when you connect.  This requires you to use one of the connect methods that supports this, e.g. M-Files API - ConnectEx7 Method

it works now but still I am unable to filter the objects based on the Name or Title property. Is this also expected?

it works now but still I am unable to filter the objects based on the Name or Title property. Is this also expected?

Craig Hawker said:

Unmanaged objects are available in the full-text search index, but they aren't objects in the vault database and so don't have properties that you can query.

Unmanaged objects do not have properties.  They are only available in the full-text search index.

Hi, The below condition works fine but

var condition = new SearchCondition();
condition.Expression.SetPropertyValueExpression((int)MFBuiltInPropertyDef.MFBuiltInPropertyDefRepository, MFParentChildBehavior.MFParentChildBehaviorNone);
condition.ConditionType = MFConditionType.MFConditionTypeEqual;
var lookup = new Lookup();
lookup.ExternalRepositoryName = "90bb252efa09494b8662332ba5d49d77"; // The connection ID, shown in the configuration.
condition.TypedValue.SetValue(MFDataType.MFDatatypeLookup, lookup);
searchConditions.Add(-1, condition);

Similiarly I need to add a condtion with MFBuiltInPropertyDefCreatedFromExternalLocation ( could not find out what the value and where to get to supply here)

Please see the image below I need to find this document based on the location or IML FIle Path and then I need to promote it 

Could you please suggest an approach ?

Thank you very much for your answers