Get doc set id by doc set name

If you want to upload any file programmatically to a doc set you need the id of that doc set. In my last post I showed how to create a new doc set using Managed Client Object model. Here I will post the code snippet how to get a doc set id.

We need to CAML Query to get the doc set id by its name. Below function returns the docset id when the docset name is passed


   public int GetDocSetID(string siteurl,string docsetname,string listname)
        {
            ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteurl);
            context.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
            Web site = context.Web;
            var list = context.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(listname));
            CamlQuery query = new CamlQuery();
            query.ViewXml = "@<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' /><Value Type='File'>" + docsetname + "</Value></Eq></Where>";
            var items = list.GetItems(query);
            context.Load(list);
            context.Load(items);
            context.ExecuteQuery();
            return items[0].Id;


        }


Remember doc set is just a list item and there cant be more than one docset with the same name. So the CAML query always returns one item.