Thanks for the response Blake 

I am running a sharepoint events process, my process does not have any process datat fields and I only have the following XML fields: EventDetails, SPEventFields.  The SPEventsFieklds does have a item id <Items Type="Documents"><Item ID="1"> but it is always 1.

I am not sure if this is due to the reason that this is an email enabled document library, so the type="Document".

The process wizard does pick  it up as a list.  My source type is list item.

I have also tried to search for the list item and I get it back, but the ID always comes back as 1.

SPEventsField xml:

<Items Type="Documents"><Item ID="1"><SiteURL>http://cptsrvdev003:8086/accounting</SiteURL><ListURL>Accounts Pod 1 Mail</ListURL><Folder /><Item>henk.eml</Item><URL>http://cptsrvdev003:8086/accounting/Accounts Pod 1 Mail/Henk Barnard (Henk.Barnard@1stcontact.com)/henk.eml</URL><Source /></Item></Items> 

Thanks Blake

So you say when you create a sharepoint evetns process on a standard list, you get the correct list item ID back, I have tried to change my list to a stndard list (Tasks), but my list item ID still comes back as 1.

Maybe I am doing something wrong?

Hi,

Ok, so, how do we get the item ID of an item in a document library, using the SharePoint search event then? Because if this doesn't work, and <Item> node contains the item title rather than the ID... then the only way I see is to write and consume a web service to do this for you.