I am trying to catch event (ItemUpdating) when user just replaces the content of a document without explicitly checking out/in. I have checked all the differences on BeforeProperties and AfterProperties. I was hoping that vti_sourcecontrolversion or vti_timelastmodified would change, but first one stays the same and the other is null in AfterProperties. Any advice?
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If the data's not present in the properties object you can query the document and look in its version history. That's about the only other option you have.
answered Aug 4, 2021 at 16:00
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Good advice, thank you. If I understand correctly, this should be done in ItemUpdated, after update is executed. If the new version is created in latest few seconds, this would be the event. I am a little concerned that this event may be caught many times within that time if item is updated in some other way than creating a new version. Or is there another way?– FurliAug 5, 2021 at 7:16
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If I were you, I'd step back and look at the business problem you're trying to solve and try to figure out if there's a better way to solve it. Running code to inspect a document's contents every time it's updated, if it's updated frequently, is going to be a mess. Aug 5, 2021 at 13:29
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After implementing the proposed solution, I have noticed that new version gets created on every change of properties of a document too. In my case, it was more appropriate to check folder last modification date. This one changes on every change in files within.– FurliAug 9, 2021 at 9:32