The programmatic identifier for this class description, class definition, property description, property definition, property template, or object store. The value of the property is treated in a case-insensitive manner.

For objects in which you can set the SymbolicName property (object store, class definition, and property template objects), the value of the SymbolicName property must begin with a letter and contain the following characters only: 'A' to 'Z', 'a' to 'z', '0' to '9', and '_' (underscore). No blanks or symbols are allowed. If you do not provide a value for the SymbolicName property, the server will generate it, based on the value of the DisplayName property, when you save the object. For class definition and property template objects, avoid assigning the symbolic name to a value beginning with one of the following reserved prefixes: Cm, Dita, and RM.

For object store objects, the symbolic name for an object store must be unique within a domain.

For class definition objects, the symbolic name for a class must be unique within an object store.

For a property template object, the symbolic name need not be unique relative to the other property template objects. However, when you use a property template to create a property definition and associate it with a class, that property definition's symbolic name must be unique within the class family. A class family is defined by a root class (for example, Document, Folder, or CustomObject) and all of its descendants.

Changing the symbolic name of a property template for a string-valued property will propagate to the property definitions based on that template. The property definitions that have been enabled for full-text indexing (IsCBREnabled property set to true) will require re-indexing of all objects containing that property. If you do not re-index, full-text searches on this property will fail to find any objects.

Namespace:  FileNet.Api.Admin
Assembly:  FileNet.Api (in FileNet.Api.dll)

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Visual Basic (Declaration)
Property SymbolicName As String
C#
string SymbolicName { get; set; }
Visual C++
property String^ SymbolicName {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}
JavaScript
function get_symbolicName();
function set_symbolicName(value);

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