I believe the difference is because the move forest function doesn’t change a document’s uri or explicitly delete it. Because the uri doesn’t change the properties document is maintained (and under the covers MarkLogic moves it with the document to the new forest).

Rob

For example here’s the code I pulled from an old mailing list entry to move a document. It seems to imply that not all property objects are maintained in an insert.

declare function local:document-rename(
$old-uri as xs:string, $new-uri as xs:string)
as empty-sequence()
{
xdmp:document-delete($old-uri)
,
let $permissions := xdmp:document-get-permissions($old-uri)
let $collections := xdmp:document-get-collections($old-uri)
return xdmp:document-insert(
$new-uri, doc($old-uri),
if ($permissions) then $permissions
else xdmp:default-permissions(),
if ($collections) then $collections
else xdmp:default-collections(),
xdmp:document-get-quality($old-uri)
)
,
let $prop-ns := namespace-uri()
let $properties :=
xdmp:document-properties($old-uri)/node()
[ namespace-uri(.) ne $prop-ns ]
return xdmp:document-set-properties($new-uri, $properties)
};

-David

Glad you find it useful! Tab renaming and explore are both now supported – download the latest version (0.2) from github

Thanks,
Rob