# IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin.RecalculateProperty

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Badges: `Administration API / specialized` `admin` `session`

Starts a server job that recalculates the automatic values of a property in all existing objects.

- **Service:** [Property definition and class administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin/index.md) `MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin`
- **gRPC method:** `/MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin/RecalculateProperty`
- **HTTP (mf-http-grpc):** `POST /grpc/v1/recalculate-property`
- **Request:** [`RecalculatePropertyRequest`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin/RecalculateProperty/index.md#request)
- **Response:** [`RecalculatePropertyResponse`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin/RecalculateProperty/index.md#response)
- **Book and level:** Administration API, specialized
- **Kind:** admin
- **Session:** Required: the session ID from LogIn in the mfiles-session-id-bin metadata.
- **Idempotent:** no
- **Returns metadata structure version:** no
- **Streaming:** none (unary)

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## Remarks

- Starts a temporary server-level scheduled job and returns before it completes. `task_id` is the
  job's ID; M-Files Admin follows it with
  [GetScheduledJobRunInfo](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/GetScheduledJobRunInfo/index.md) from a
  server-level session.
- Changes property values of existing objects. Requires `change_metadata_structure` and
  `license_allows_modifications`.

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## Request: RecalculatePropertyRequest

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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `property_def` | `int32` | The ID of the property to recalculate. |
| `null_values_only` | `bool` | True to fill in only empty values, false to recalculate every value. |

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## Response: RecalculatePropertyResponse

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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `task_id` | `int32` | The ID of the scheduled job that does the work. |

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## Related methods

- [IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin.GetScheduledJobRunInfo](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/GetScheduledJobRunInfo/index.md): Gets the run state of a scheduled job: running or not, last and next run, errors and progress.