Hello, I have been looking through rhino common for a reference to accessing the guid of a rhino document (or even if one is assigned or created currently). I haven’t been able to find any references and suspect that it might not exist. Would someone be able to let me know if it does exist? If it…

[image] tree: Would someone be able to let me know if it does exist? @tree , there is a DocumentId property. Does that help ? c.

Clempt, Understood, and thanks for the suggestion. The documentid seems to relate to the index of a document in memory. I’m really looking for something persistent and that will be identical each time the document is opened.

Hi @tree , usually the file path of the document could be used. Alternatively, you might create your own info, eg, cook up a GUID based on date, filename and/or filesize, save it as document data and validate it every time the document is accessed. (eg. to avoid mix-up when this document has been co…

Clement, What do you mean by ‘save it as document data’? I’m currently using a path method and it seems to work well - so long as users don’t manually edit their paths by moving files from one location to another or changing their name manually in the OS – thus the question to this forum. Inciden…

@tree , using the document path should be fine as it is unlikely that you get more than one file with the same name and path. My alternative with generating your own guid and assigning it as document data only makes sense if you need a GUID and if you are validating it because if you copy such a fi…

Clement, I’m looking in RhinoCommon for references to “SetDocumentData” - is this a known / documented method or something that you’ve built?

Clement, Re: using the document path should be fine as it is unlikely that you get more than one file with the same name and path. This is not ideal. For instance. A user makes a file, produces some geometry / work, and then saves it to a directory, maybe even their desktop. The file might b…

This (StringTable.SetString Method) seems very useful! I will explore the method and get back to you! A sincere thanks!

Clement, I’ve just built a small test of this method - perfect - it seems to work like a charm! A sincere thanks! Also: please note the parallel conversation [ here ].

Document Guid?

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clement March 3, 2016, 2:37am 8

Sorry that was python rhinoscript syntax, i guess you`ll need:

Rhino.RhinoDoc.Strings.SetString(section, entry, value)

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