# IRPCValueLists.GetValueListItemProposals

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Badges: `Vault API / core` `read` `session or assertion` `idempotent` `returns metadata structure version`

Gets the values that the calling user has most recently used for a lookup property.

- **Service:** [Value lists](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/index.md) `MFiles.IRPCValueLists`
- **gRPC method:** `/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetValueListItemProposals`
- **HTTP (mf-http-grpc):** `POST /grpc/v1/get-value-list-item-proposals`
- **Request:** [`GetValueListItemProposalsRequest`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetValueListItemProposals/index.md#request)
- **Response:** [`GetValueListItemProposalsResponse`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetValueListItemProposals/index.md#response)
- **Book and level:** Vault API, core
- **Kind:** read
- **Session:** Required: a session (mfiles-session-id-bin metadata) or a session assertion (x-mf-session-assertion metadata).
- **Idempotent:** yes
- **Returns metadata structure version:** yes (in the mfiles-metadata-version-bin trailer)
- **Streaming:** none (unary)

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## Remarks

- Requires a vault session. Returns at most five items, the most recently used first. Deleted
  items and items the user cannot see are left out.
- A property that is not a lookup, or that the user has not used yet, gives an empty list.
- Use it to offer quick picks next to a lookup control filled with
  [GetLookupItems](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetLookupItems/index.md).

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## Request: GetValueListItemProposalsRequest

Request for getting proposed values for a lookup property.

> Nested message fields are expanded to depth 3; follow a type link for deeper levels and for the type's own page.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `property_def_id` | `uint32` | The ID of the lookup property definition whose recently used values are wanted. |

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## Response: GetValueListItemProposalsResponse

Response for getting proposed values for a lookup property.

> Nested message fields are expanded to depth 3; follow a type link for deeper levels and for the type's own page.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `proposed_values[]` | repeated [`ValueListItem`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.ValueListItem/index.md) | Up to five items, most recently used first. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info` | [`ItemInfo`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.ItemInfo/index.md) | The item's identity and name: `obj_id.type` is the value list ID, `obj_id.item_id.internal_id` the item ID (unique within the list only), plus `name`, `guid`, `external_id` and flags. `options.is_deleted` marks a deleted item. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.obj_id` | [`ObjID`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.ObjID/index.md) | The object id or value list item id. Includes the object type or value list id. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.name` | `string` | The name of the item. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.external_id_status` | [`ExtIDStatus`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Enums/MFiles.ExtIDStatus/index.md) | The status of this item's external ID. Values: `EXT_IDSTATUS_UNKNOWN` (0), `EXT_IDSTATUS_EXTERNAL` (1), `EXT_IDSTATUS_INTERNAL` (2), `EXT_IDSTATUS_DISCARDED` (3), `EXT_IDSTATUS_NOT_AVAILABLE` (4), `EXT_IDSTATUS_EXTERNAL_REDUCED` (5). |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.external_id` | `string` | The external ID (display ID) of this item. unset means that the external ID is the same as the internal ID. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.guid` | `string` | GUID for the item. |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.options` | [`ITEMFLAGS`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.ITEMFLAGS/index.md) | Bit flags that provide additional information on the item (e.g. is the object deleted). |
| `proposed_values[].item_info.external_repository_icon_id` | `string` | The ID of the item's icon. |
| `proposed_values[].has_parent` | `bool` | True if the item has a parent item in the same (hierarchical) list. |
| `proposed_values[].has_owner` | `bool` | True if the item belongs to an item of the owner list (`ValueList.owner_object_type`). |
| `proposed_values[].parent_id` | `int32` | With `has_parent`, the item ID of the parent item; otherwise ignored. |
| `proposed_values[].owner_id` | `int32` | With `has_owner`, the item ID of the owner item in the owner list. |
| `proposed_values[].owner_name` | `string` | The name of the owner item. |
| `proposed_values[].automatic_permissions` | [`AutomaticPermissions`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.AutomaticPermissions/index.md) | If set, specifies the automatic permissions for an object for which the user selects this item. |
| `proposed_values[].automatic_permissions.permissions` | [`NamedACL`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.NamedACL/index.md) | The automatic permissions for an object for which the user selects this item. |
| `proposed_values[].automatic_permissions.is_default` | `bool` | True if these automatic permissions are not private i.e. they are not directly specified for (owned by) this item but they come from somewhere else, e.g. from the default/common automatic permissions of the object type. |
| `proposed_values[].automatic_permissions.use_object_permissions` | `bool` | If true the object/item's own permissions are used as its automatic permissions. |
| `proposed_values[].icon` | [`Bytes`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.Bytes/index.md) | If set, contains the icon of this item in .ICO format. |
| `proposed_values[].icon.value` | `bytes` | Array of bytes. |

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## Related methods

- [GetLookupItems](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetLookupItems/index.md): Gets the selectable items of one or more value lists or object types in one call, for example to fill lookup controls.
- [GetValueList](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCValueLists/GetValueList/index.md): Gets one value list or object type by ID, without its icon.