Represents a system or custom event that can be triggered on an Content Engine object or class of objects. This is the base event interface from which several subinterfaces derive, used primarily for auditing and subscriptions. You can audit all event types, and you can subscribe to all events with the exception of those that derive from the RetrievalEvent interface.

Through an event object, you can retrieve information about the object on which the event was fired, such as its permissions and the date the object was last modified. You can set some properties as well, if you have been granted privileged write access.


The following tables list the members exposed by IEvent.

Public Properties

 NameDescription
Public propertyCreatorIndicates the name of the user assigned as the creator of the object.

Settability of this property is read-only for most users. For users who have been granted privileged write access (AccessRight.PRIVILEGED_WRITE), this property is settable only on create. After initial object creation, this property is read-only for all users.

Public propertyDateCreatedIndicates the date and time the object was created. The Content Engine stores dates and times using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Settability of this property is read-only for most users. For users who have been granted privileged write access (AccessRight.PRIVILEGED_WRITE), this property is settable only on create. After initial object creation, this property is read-only for all users.

Public propertyDateLastModifiedIndicates the date and time the object was last modified. The Content Engine stores dates and times using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Settability of this property is read-only for most users. For users who have been granted privileged write access (AccessRight.PRIVILEGED_WRITE), this property is read/write. (The read/write access for those users can only change if a change is made to the ACL on the object store that controls who has privileged write access to objects in that object store).

Public propertyEventStatusFor a system event, this property indicates whether the operation that caused the creation of this event was successful. Zero (0) indicates a successful operation; otherwise, an error code is returned.

For a custom event, this property can be set by a client application to convey state to the event action handler. Therefore, it is up to the client application and event action handler to define and interpret the value of this property. In the event action handler, this property can be retrieved from the event object passed to the handler.

Settability of this property is read-only for most users. For users who have been granted privileged write access (AccessRight.PRIVILEGED_WRITE), this property is settable only on create. After initial object creation, this property is read-only for all users.

Public propertyIdA representation of the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), a unique 128-bit number, that is assigned to this Content Engine object when the object is created. When converted to a string, the Id property is typically depicted as 32 hexadecimal characters enclosed by brackets in the following format: {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}. For example, {3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A0C-0305E82C3301}.

For IUser and IGroup classes, the Id property takes the value of the Security Identifier (SID) rather than the 128-bit GUID. The string representation of the SID is in this example format: S-1-5-21-1559522492-2815155736-3711640725-55269. When Active Directory is used as the directory service for IBM FileNet P8, IUser.Id and IGroup.Id always return the current SID for the principal, even if this user or group has only historical SIDs populating the Active Directory server.

For a given property representation, the Id property has the following characteristics:

  • PropertyDescription.Id is equal to PropertyTemplate.Id, which is equal to PropertyDefinition.PrimaryId.
  • PropertyDefinition.Id is not equal to PropertyDefinition.PrimaryId.
  • PropertyDefinition.Id is not equal to PropertyDescription.Id.

For a newly created document object, you can override the Id property of its associated VersionSeries object before you save or check in the document for the first time.

Public propertyInitiatingUserThe authentication provider's LDAP Distinguished Name (DN) of the user that initiated the event.

This property is available for asynchronous events only. For synchronous events, get the current user from the server context.

Public propertyLastModifierIndicates the name of the user who last modified the object.

Settability of this property is read-only for most users. For users who have been granted privileged write access (AccessRight.PRIVILEGED_WRITE), this property is read/write. (The read/write access for those users could only change if a change is made to the ACL on the object store that controls who has privileged write access to objects in that object store).

Public propertyNameThe name for this object.

For most classes, this property is read-only and returns the value of the designated name property for the object, or its ID if there is no name property. If ClassDescription.NamePropertyIndex has a value, this property contains the value of the designated name property. If there is no designated name property value, and the object has an Id property, this property contains the string value of the Id property. If neither of these conditions is satisfied, this property contains an empty string.

For a ComponentRelationship object, this property is read/write and specifies the name of the object.

Public propertyOwnerManages the security owner assigned to the object.
Public propertyPermissionsManages the discretionary permissions assigned to the object.
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