Comments on: Workarounds for ItemAdding/ItemAdded Event Handlers

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Pre-filling fields on EditForm.aspx » Andy Burns’ SharePoint Blog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:24:16 +0000

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http:// — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:51:32 +0000

Adam, great blog. I had the exact same problem and your solution solved it. Thanks much!

By: Adam Toth

Adam Toth — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:29:46 +0000

Hey rgarcia,

At this point, I’m not sure what I can recommend, other than a support incident with Microsoft.

What you could try is to store your metadata as a string of xml somewhere (like the spweb.properties bag). Then in ItemUpdated try to check if your metadata is missing, and if it is, read back the data and update the fields, and then clear out the properties bag entry.

For me, the metadata would disappear only the first time the item was edited. After that, the metadata would stick from that point on.

Have your aspirin bottle nearby.

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http:// — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:49:07 +0000

I am really happy that I found this blog because I thought this is a very unique case.

However, I am only experiencing the problem only for Office 2007 documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) types. I tried to implement your solution and still the metadata won’t stick.