As Nick says all appears to update when the file is saved. It also seems
while not saved custom properties can only be read by vba methods or similar
by automation (eg DSOFile dll doesn't seem to work with an open file).

In which case, while the file is open can you simply update the value with
LinkToContent:=False when the named cell value changes. Presumably this
non-linked custom property can then be read immediately by Meridio.

Regards,
Peter T


"Jan Petter" wrote in message
...
Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer these question

Unfortunately I have to have these Document Properties set before I can do
a
"Save" The reason is that we are integrating excel with Meridio which is a
document archive system. Meridio has a plug-in in excel that captures the
"Save" and "Save-As" events and it is this plug-in that pulls out the
Document properties so it can use the as metadata in the Archive system.
The
problem is that this happens before the Save happens in excel and
therefore
all the properties show with no values in them

Jan Petter

"NickHK" wrote:

Jan,
Seems that a "ActiveWorkbook.Save" flushes the value, so it can be
correctly
read. Office2K anyway.

NickHK

"Jan Petter" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Unfortunately the examples in the document do not help. I have changed
my
code to reflect the examples and I have tried to use the "DS: OLE
Document
Properties 2.0 Object Library" but with no luck

Jan Petter

"NickHK" wrote:

Jan,
Forgot the link....

Does this help ?
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/docprop.htm
NickHK


"Jan Petter" wrote in message
...
This problem exists in the XL2003 SP2 version also.

We have a lot of users that will use the excel spreadsheets and it
can't
bee
expected that they will access the File-properties menu before
they
save
the
workbooks.
So if a solution or workaround for this problem exists I would
really
like
to hear about it.

Jan Petter


"Peter T" wrote:

Hi Jon,

I replicate what you describe in XL2000, can't see an obvious
solution
without flashing the file properties dialog.

After showing the dialog .Value returns as expected. If I now
change
the
value in the linked cell A1, .Value returns the old value, need
to
see
the
dialog again for it to be updated.

FWIW, after defining the custom property and not seeing the
dialog,
the
returned value appears to be 122 bytes of meaningless (to me)
numbers.

dim arr() as byte
arr =
ActiveWorkbook.CustomDocumentProperties("CustomPro p").Value

' arr 0 to 121

Regards,
Peter T

"Jan Petter" wrote in
message
...
Hi,

When I create a CustomDocumentProperty programmatically and
set
the
LinkToContent value to True, the value is not available to use
programmatically before I have accessed the menu
File-Properties.
To illustrate it I have included some sample code, just create
a
new
workbook and add a button to it. Paste the following code into
the
"ThisWorkbook"

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Value = "Test"
ActiveSheet.Names.Add Name:="TestName",
RefersTo:="=Sheet1!$A$1"
ActiveWorkbook.CustomDocumentProperties.Add
Name:="CustomProp",
LinkToContent:=True, Type:=msoPropertyTypeString,
LinkSource:="TestName"
End Sub

Add the following code into the button event handler
MsgBox
ActiveWorkbook.CustomDocumentProperties("CustomPro p").Value

Is there a way to get Excel to populate the
CustomDocumentProperties
programmatically, We are integrating all our documents with
Meridio
which
is
a EDRM solution and this program use the DocumentProperties
when
storing
the
documents

Regards
Jan Petter