I am trying to update a SharePoint task programmatically using CSOM. I am able to approve a task successfully but not sure how to update the comments.
The comments could be retrieved using ExtendedProperties
as HashTable but I am unable to set the value for the same. How can I update the approval comments?
Below is the code to approve a task :
using (ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext("http://abc/sites/TLS/low"))
{
Web web = ctx.Web;
List oList = web.Lists.GetByTitle("Tasks");
ListItem listitem = oList.GetItemById(784);
ctx.Load(listitem);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
Hashtable ht = GetExtendedPropertiesAsHashtable(listitem);
listitem["Completed"] = true;
listitem["PercentComplete"] = 1;
listitem["Status"] = "Approved";
listitem["WorkflowOutcome"] = "Approved";
listitem["FormData"] = "Completed";
//listitem["__ModerationComments"] = "Sdfs";
//listitem["ows_FieldName_Comments"] = "Sdfs";
//ht["ows_FieldName_Comments"] = "sdsds";
listitem.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
Below is code to get the ExtendedProperties
of a task item :
public static Hashtable GetExtendedPropertiesAsHashtable(ListItem task)
{
if (task == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException();
}
Hashtable properties = new Hashtable();
string extProperties = (string)task["ExtendedProperties"];
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(extProperties))
{
var reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader("<Root " + extProperties + " />"))
{
WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.Significant
};
reader.MoveToContent();
if (!reader.HasAttributes)
{
return properties;
}
while (reader.MoveToNextAttribute())
{
string propName = reader.Name.Substring(4);
properties[propName] = reader.Value;
}
}
return properties;
}
You could try this to update the approval comments:
listitem["ExtendedProperties"] = "ows_FieldName_Comments='comment' ";