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Set Document Id in SharePoint using CSOM

The example in this topic show how to use CSOM to Set Document Id in SharePoint

Please follow the steps below to execute the code in Visual Studio using Console Application. You can customize the solution according to your requirements.
Check the article to Connect to SharePoint context using CSOM. This is very helpful if you are doing any programming in CSOM.
Don't forget to use the assemblies as mentioned in the code.

Open your Visual Studio.
From the template, select Console Application as shown in the screenshot
Select the .Net Framework version from the top drop-down as well. You can also change the .Net Framework after creating the solution.
Enter Project Name, Location and Solution Name and click on OK.

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
// Pre-requisite for this method: Feature "Document ID Service" should be activated
// you can specify a set of 4-12 characters that will be used at the beginning of all IDs assigned for documents in this Site Collection.
// Below two timer Jobs are used for Document ID feature
// (1) Document ID enable/disable job - This is used to Enable or Disable Document ID Feature
// (2) Document ID assignment job - This is used to assign Document ID to the existing Documents in the site collection
using (ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection"))
{
Web web = clientContext.Web;
clientContext.Load(web.AllProperties);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
// Code to set Document ID of a Site Collection
// Set below key in Site Property bag
web.AllProperties["docid_msft_hier_siteprefix"] = "qqqA102345";
web.Update();
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
}

Thank you for reading this article. This code was tested in SharePoint 2013

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