The ClassDescription object containing the property metadata for the EngineObject.

A 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 Content Cortex, 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.

The 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.

Defines the category applied to users and groups in this directory realm.

The IProperties collection of properties for the EngineObject.

The type of directory from which this Realm was materialised.

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.