In order to work around a KPI problem I wrote about here, I did some testing and discovered that KPI’s work against folders with meta data in the same way that they work against documents or list items. I proved it out by creating a new content type based on the folder content type and then added a few fields. I created some indicators and proved to myself that KPIs work as expected. This was welcome news. It’s not perfect, because the drill-down you get from the KPI against the folders is not exactly what you want. This isn’t too much a drawback in my case because 1) erabiltzaileek ez dakite edozein hobeto eta 2) the drill-down goes to a folder. They click the folder name and they are at the item. It’s two clicks instead of one, eta hori ez da munduaren amaiera.

This flowed nicely with the work I was doing. I am creating a folder for every document that gets uploaded. This is done via an event receiver. Baten ondorioz, bat tarta zati mantentzen da karpeta gurasoa en meta data in sync with the KPI-driven meta data from the file itself since the plumbing is already in place. This allows me to have my KPI’s and eat them too 🙂

I modified the event receiver to add the folder and then set this new folder’s content type to my custom KPI-friendly content type. This bit of code did the trick:

 SPFolderCollection srcFolders = targetWeb.GetFolder("Documents").Azpikarpetak;
  SPFolder addedFolder = srcFolders.Add(properties.ListItem.ID.ToString());

  SPContentTypeId kpiCT = berria SPContentTypeId("0x0120002A666CAA9176DC4AA8CBAA9DC6B4039F");
  addedFolder.Item["Content Type ID"] = KpiCT;
  addedFolder.Item.Update();

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