How to capture original creation date of a document while uploading into document library?

Question

I am uploading a document in SharePoint document library and would like to capture original creation date of the document. Can anyone let me know about this?

For Eg: If a document is created on 1st of July and I am uploading it on 15th of July. Then I would like to capture the 1st July in some column. I can create a new column in the library to add the date.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

One option is to use SPFile.Properties to read the properties of the uploaded file. In the aforementioned link the example outputs a property vti_timecreated. You would have to create an event receiver to check when the file is uploaded to library and get the created value and put it into a new column. Alternatively, you can also create a timer job to do this to run say, every hour, and update the library.