CMIS allowableActions - not documented - what do they mean for SP 2010 CMIS support

Question

Using the Rest interface, the allowable actions for the root folder in SP 2010 using the CMIS producer for SP 2010 come back including (for example) actions such as:

<canAddObjectToFolder>false</canAddObjectToFolder>
        <canAddObjectToFolderSpecified>true</canAddObjectToFolderSpecified>

The CMIS 1.0 documentation specifies canAddObjectToFolder, but I can only find canAddObjectToFolderSpecified buried in sample code of various CMIS clients.

What is the difference?

Most of the allowable actions are false for <allowableAction>, but true for the <allowableAction>Specified.

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Neil Thomson

Answer 1

Hi Neil,

Thanks for sharing the post.

I'm trying to involve someone familar with this topic to further look at this issue.

Thanks,
Qiao

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Qiao Wei

TechNet Community Support

Answer 2

Neil,

Looking through the CMIS documentation there is a distinction between cannAddOBjectToFolder via the key element.  Not sure if it will help, but it looks like the only difference would be the key used, either canAddToFolder.Object or canAddToFolder.Folder (for specified version.

Not sure if that helps at all, you may need to call us directly on this and see if we can do a little more research, have not found much on this at all.

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Patrick Cole - MSFT

Answer 3

Patrick,

Thanks for digging into this. I presume you mean this aspect of the spec. Or is there some Microsoft documentation that I'm unaware of.

   Filing Services:
         canAddObjectToFolder  
              Description: Can file the document in a folder (addObjectToFolder)
              Base Object: cmis:document, cmis:policy
              Operand:  Object
              Key:  canAddToFolder.Object
              Permission:  Read
 
canAddObjectToFolder  
              Description: Can file a document in the specified folder (addObjectToFolder)
              Base Object: cmis:document, cmis:policy
              Operand:  Object
              Key:  canAddToFolder.Folder
              Permission:  Read 

Which strongly suggests Microsoft and possibly others differentiate the two "canAddObjectToFolder" by changing the second one to be "canAddObjectToFolderSpecified".

Did not connect those dots, but it makes sense.

A bit odd that a technology that Microsoft is a founder for doesn't have readily accessible documentation on their SharePoint implementation.

Thanks,

Neil

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Neil Thomson