How i Can add a new record in a Keyword data set?

[Alejandro_Contr]

I need to add a new option with the API to a existing keyword data set, how i could do it, i have see in the SDK that i could use the next code for watch the actual values for the data set, but the question is... how i could add a new value to the data set.

//Retrieve the appropriate Keyword Type
KeywordType searchKeywordType = core.KeywordTypes.Find("Employee ID");

if (searchKeywordType == null)
{
Console.WriteLine("Employee ID keyword type was not found");
}

else
{
      //Get the Keyword Data Set for the Keyword Type
       KeywordDataSet keyworddataSet = searchKeywordType.GetKeywordDataSet();

      //Loop through the KeywordDataSetItem objects in the KeywordDataSet
       foreach (KeywordDataSetItem keyworddataSetItem in keyworddataSet)
       {
            switch (keywordDataSetItem.KeywordType.DataType)
            {
                    case KeywordDataType.AlphaNumeric:
                        string strValue = keywordDataSetItem.AlphaNumericValue;                  
                      // use value here
                        break;
                    case KeywordDataType.Numeric9:
                        long lngValue = keywordDataSetItem.Numeric9Value;

                        // use value here
                        break;
                    case KeywordDataType.Numeric20:
                        decimal decValue = keywordDataSetItem.Numeric20Value;

                        // use value here
                        break;
                    default:
                        break;
            }
    }
}

[Alejandro_Contr]

I'm in version 13

[Daniel_Quill]

Alejandro,

Unfortunely there is no way to this through the API.  Managing the keywords and their datasets must be done through the configuration module.

[Thomas_Reu]

Daniel's answer only applies to internal onbase keyword datasets.  If the keyword dataset points to an external table (e.g. it is an external keyword dataset), then by definition this external table is not part of onbase.  This external table is managed by whatever system owns it - not onbase.  Ergo, you would not need the configuration module to modify it. 

[Daniel_Quill · Accepted solution]

Thank you Tom.  That is correct.  If the Dataset is external you would not use the Unity API to modify.  For instance, if your Dataset values are stored in a separate database table you could write an SQL query that would add/remove values to from it and when accessed by OnBase would reflect the changes.