2 Replies Latest reply on Sep 13, 2018 8:30 AM by Carmen Lopera

GetCustomProperty Document Manager API

Carmen Lopera Sep 13, 2018 8:07 AM

I am calling GetCustomProperty with a property name that the part doesn't have and instead of returning null is crashing. The documentation doesn't say anything about the return value if the property doesn't exist. Do we need to call this method when we know the property exists?

string sCustPropStr = null;

SwDmCustomInfoType nPropType = 0;

sCustPropStr = swDoc.GetCustomProperty("MyProperty", out nPropType);

Re: GetCustomProperty Document Manager API

Josh Brady Sep 13, 2018 8:21 AM (in response to Carmen Lopera)

Please read the documentation again:
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This method returns the resolved evaluated values of custom properties prefaced with fromparent+ for external referenced documents. Use ISwDocument17::GetCustomProperty2 to return resolved evaluated values without the fromparent+ preface.
Before calling this method, call ISwDMDocument::GetCustomPropertyNames.
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  Carmen Lopera Sep 13, 2018 8:30 AM (in response to Josh Brady)
  
  Yes that is what I am doing callingGetCustomPropertyNames so I can loop through them and if it exists then call GetCustomProperty which seems inefficient I would expect they will return a null when the property doesn't exist so we don't have to implement the loop ourselves
  
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