Add vault extension method: VaultPropertyDefOperations.GetOwnerPropertyDefID

[CraigHawker]

Would be a shorthand for this sort of code.

            // Get the owner Mandant propertyDef
            ObjType owningObjType = env.Vault.ObjectTypeOperations.GetObjectType(Configuration.Identifier.ObjectType.Mandant);
            int besitzerMandant = owningObjType.OwnerPropertyDef;

Should take a single integer parameter for the object type ID.

[CraigHawker]

As this could be used from the COM API (without the VAF), I have moved this across to the COM API extensions library: M-Files/COMAPI.Extensions.Community#4

[falk-huth-ewerk]

Hi Craig, normally I would go via aliases and MFIdentifier in Configuration but unfortunately the property alias is not editable for Owner (Mandant) in Admin Client. Perhaps this would be a good feature request because you also use the alias in meta data card configuration – or the ID if alias is not filled. Then you have the problem that you cannot transport the meta data configuration between the vaults Dev, Test, Prod. I solved this by adding temporary code like below – but how should non-programmers do that? /// <summary> /// The method, that is run when the vault goes online. /// </summary> protected override void StartApplication() { /* PropertyDefAdmin pdAdmin; pdAdmin = PermanentVault.PropertyDefOperations.GetPropertyDefAdmin(1176); pdAdmin.SemanticAliases = new SemanticAliasesClass() { Value = "EW.PD.Besitzer.Mitarbeiter" }; PermanentVault.PropertyDefOperations.UpdatePropertyDefAdmin(pdAdmin); */ base.StartApplication(); } The short version would be for this example: int besitzerMandant = env.Vault.ObjectTypeOperations.GetOwnerPropertyDef(Configuration.Identifier.ObjectType.Mandant); I think the parameter could be integer or MFIdentifier. Greetings, Falk

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[CraigHawker]

I have closed this issue and opened it against the COM API. Please reply there.

That said, a few comments:

• I think this should go against VaultPropertyDefOperations, rather than VaultObjectTypeOperations personally (as it should return the property definition ID).
• The UI has that limitation for owner property definitions, you're correct, but you can add an alias to the parent or child object type and retrieve the data from that using MFIdentifiers. That's better than pushing the alias in using the API.
• If this extension method is added to the COM API then it cannot use MFIdentifier as that is a VAF construct. Also: there is an implicit operator from MFIdentifier to int, so int is the preferred way of expressing this as you can still continue to provide an MFIdentifier if you would like.