Home Library Learn Downloads Support Community
Sign in | United States - English | |
0 out of 1 rated this helpful - Rate this topic

SPFolder.Properties Property

Windows SharePoint Services 3
Gets a hash table that contains metadata for the folder.

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint
Assembly: Microsoft.SharePoint (in microsoft.sharepoint.dll)
C#
VB
Copy 
public Hashtable Properties { get; }

Property Value

A System.Collections.Hashtable object that contains the metadata.

The following code example iterates through the collection of folders in the current Web site and displays the properties and values for each folder.

This example requires using directives (Imports in Visual Basic) for the Microsoft.SharePoint and Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespaces.

C#
Copy 
SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Web;
SPFolderCollection collFolders = oWebsite.Folders;

foreach (SPFolder oFolder in collFolders)
{
   System.Collections.Hashtable oHashtable = oFolder.Properties;
   System.Collections.ICollection collKeys = oHashtable.Keys;

      foreach (object oKey in collKeys)
      {
         Response.Write(SPEncode.HtmlEncode(oKey.ToString()) + " :: " + 
             SPEncode.HtmlEncode(hashtable[oKey.ToString()]) + "<BR>");
      }
}

The previous example displays metadata such as the following:

Copy 
vti_dirlateststamp :: 8/30/2006 1:06:19 AM
vti_etag :: "{101141FF-9E99-4404-AE4D-561B981472E4},0"
vti_isexecutable :: false
vti_candeleteversion :: true
vti_docstoretype :: 1
vti_timecreated :: 8/21/2006 1:28:31 AM
vti_isbrowsable :: true
vti_hassubdirs :: true
vti_listname :: {B6C3C6F9-A256-4FA4-B6A2-97549D48E530}
vti_replid :: rid:{101141FF-9E99-4404-AE4D-561B981472E4}
vti_listenableversioning :: false
vti_listenableminorversions :: false
vti_listbasetype :: 1
vti_level :: 1
vti_rtag :: rt:101141FF-9E99-4404-AE4D-561B981472E4@00000000000
vti_timelastmodified :: 8/21/2006 1:28:41 AM
vti_listservertemplate :: 101
vti_listrequirecheckout :: false
vti_listenablemoderation :: false
vti_listtitle :: TestDocLib2
vti_isscriptable :: false
Did you find this helpful?
(1500 characters remaining)
Community Content Add
Annotations FAQ
Properties can be set

list.RootFolder.Properties["122"] = "123";

string temp = list.RootFolder.Properties["122"] as string;

History
Use it for updating meta-data for your folder: it's faster than using item.update()

Instead of using:

SPFolder ArchiveFolder = MonthFolder.SubFolders.Add("Folder 1");
ArchiveFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder = contentTypes;
ArchiveFolder.Update();

//Process all about the folder item
ArchiveFolder.Item["Title"] = this._PONumber;
ArchiveFolder.Item["PONumber"] = this._PONumber;
ArchiveFolder.Item["ContentTypeId"] = ePOFolder.Id.ToString(); // Fix the content type for the folder
ArchiveFolder.Item.Update();

use:

ArchiveFolder = MonthFolder.SubFolders.Add("Folder 1");
ArchiveFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder = contentTypes;
//Process all about the folder item
ArchiveFolder.Properties.Add("Title", this._PONumber);
ArchiveFolder.Properties.Add("PONumber", this._PONumber);
ArchiveFolder.Properties.Add("ContentTypeId", ePOFolder.Id.ToString()); // Fix the content type for the folder
ArchiveFolder.Update();

I have written an article on my blog http://apichot.blogspot.com/2008/05/sharepoint-item-update-is-nightmare.html

History