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Asked: 2026-05-23T03:38:51+00:00

We have the sharepoint 2010 environment with Document ID’s enabled. Given (part of) a

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We have the sharepoint 2010 environment with Document ID’s enabled.

Given (part of) a Doc ID, we want to programmatically retrieve the document(s) matching that ID. The problem seems to be that this column is rather special, in that it might need special handling.

Using an SPSiteDataQuery, fetching the _dlc_DocId field as part of the viewfields works fine. However, including it as part of the where query never results in any documents being fetched.

Using the Search API has gotten us nowhere at all.

Has anyone pulled this off, or any suggestions on how to tackle this problem?

[Update] Turns out we were fooled by subtle errors in the XML and bad debugging misinterpretations. This stuff just works fine.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t normally contribute to these sorts of things because cleverer people than I always get there before me, but as this is an old one with no proper answer I think I’ll add my thoughts for those who find this page.

    I was struggling with this but after a little digging around and learning a bit of Caml I got this working.
    I am using the SharePoint Client Object Model against SharePoint 2010 and Office365 beta.

    Start off your query by looking at the all list items query:

    Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery().ViewXml

    "<View Scope=\"RecursiveAll\">\r\n <Query>\r\n </Query>\r\n</View>"

    Stick a where child inside the query

    Then add in

    <Eq><FieldRef Name="_dlc_DocId" /><Value Type="Text">MDXC2KE55ASN-3-80</Value></Eq>

    replacing MDXC2KE55ASN-3-80 with the doc ID you are looking for inside the where.

    Also don’t forget you might want to make use of these too:

    <ViewFields><FieldRef Name="_dlc_DocId" /></ViewFields>

    <RowLimit>1</RowLimit>

    Then use List.GetItems() method to bring back the ListItemCollection.

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