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Ashley B.15's avatar
Ashley B.15
Helpful | Level 7
6 years ago

Add custom metadata to folder

I see you can add properties to a file, is there anything availble for folders?
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  • Ashley B.15's avatar
    Ashley B.15
    6 years ago

    Sorry, sorted this. Should be 

     

    List<PropertyFieldTemplate> p = new List<PropertyFieldTemplate>(){
    new PropertyFieldTemplate("FieldName", "FieldDesc", String.Instance),
    };

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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The /2/file_properties/properties/add endpoint can be used to add properties to folders, but only for user-owned templates. It doesn't support adding properties to folders for team-owned templates.

If you do want to use team-owned templates for this, let me know and I'll pass this along as a feature request.

Ashley B.15's avatar
Ashley B.15
Helpful | Level 7
6 years ago

Hi Greg,

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm currently trying to create a Template using the NET SDK .FileProperties.TemplatesAddForTeamAsync

How do you set the property type? I'm using the following

List<PropertyFieldTemplate> p = new List<PropertyFieldTemplate>(){
new PropertyFieldTemplate("FieldName", "FieldDesc", new PropertyType().AsString),
};

When I use new PropertyType().AsString it returns null. Not sure how I should set this. Thanks

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    6 years ago

    I'm glad to see you already sorted this out.

    I also see that you are using team-owned templates, so I'll send this along as a feature request for support for setting properties for team-owned templates on folders in addition to files.

    • Ashley B.15's avatar
      Ashley B.15
      Helpful | Level 7
      6 years ago

      Hi Greg,

      Thanks, Would it be possible to get a reference for this feature request please?

       

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        6 years ago

        We don't have a separate public feature request tracker for the API. This forum thread serves as the reference for this request and I'll follow up here if/when I have any news on it.

  • Ashley B.15's avatar
    Ashley B.15
    Helpful | Level 7
    6 years ago

    Sorry, sorted this. Should be 

     

    List<PropertyFieldTemplate> p = new List<PropertyFieldTemplate>(){
    new PropertyFieldTemplate("FieldName", "FieldDesc", String.Instance),
    };

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