API, SDK, REST and Web Services

Topics included: REST, Web Services, LiveReports, IDE Development, Smart View SDK, LAPI, Search API

Is there a way to read files from Server Path using Webreport?
Constant Filepath :S:\SA\Bus_Activity\Records_Mgmt [LL_Reptag_$filepath yyyyyy /] Solving for yyyyy so that tag can read files on This location?
Issue with Inherited Permissions in Document Management System
Hello, I am currently working on our Document Management System, and I have implemented several web service calls (using C#), such as documentManagement.ListNodes, to retrieve the nodes in a folder and set up the appropriate permission rights. These operations are functioning as expected. However, I have encountered an…
How to ensure re-deployment of helm is "from scratch"
Hi, Working on Helm deployment ot Content Management (xECM) 25.1 and running into some errors. Deployment finalizes 100% pass but otac-0 pod doesn't come up and throws: Enter authenticate Error: 401 Client Error: for url: http://localhost:8080/ot-admin/rest/auth/users/login Exit authenticate When correcting presumed error,…
How to handle case sensitive using web report when CS database is designed as case sensitive
Hi, Can anyone help me on this. We are passing user names as CSV source file to Web Report in any of the format ( like it includes upper and lower case letter) and we are trying to match these users names with Database. Based on the match we have to perform some functionality. Here, the problem is database is designed as…
How to fill user field when initiating Workflow with REST API?
Hi, I'm using a REST API POST request to run a workflow that I've created. This workflow has attributes. I do manage to assign a value into attribute number 1 as you can see above. The problem is with attribute number 2 : Attribute 2 is with type of User. I tried to put into the json body request in the relevant…
ObjectImporter and long paths
We are using ObjectImporter to import files from unc. ObjectImporter is failing for all network paths larger then 260 charachters. This is often a known limitation with old .net programs. Is there a way to pass this limitation?
Going from Template Workspaces to Business Workspaces - need help finding documentation.
Hi there - We are in the process of upgrading our OpenText ecosystem. All has been going well so far, but we noticed that in the future, Template Workspaces will no longer be supported. Business workspaces seem to be pretty similar from what I'm reading but we have an extensive library of different binders + templates we…
Help Needed with Integration Issues in OpenText
Hi everyone, I’m facing integration issues with OpenText Intelligent Viewing and Content Server. Despite following the setup instructions, I'm running into authentication and authorization problems. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: Checked user permissions and roles. Confirmed the service account setup. Reviewed…
Passing Smart parameter : current location : to the web report
Hello, I need to show my WebReport as Smart UI Widget. The current NodeID (depends on user's choice) will use as parameter's for the report by default . Is it possible to use some "smart" parameter? How I can achieve such requirement? Thanks , Olga
How to search for a specific document in a web report
Hi there We have a WR constant which is a known folder within CS, and we have a WR parameter which is the name of a file we want to open from that folder (if it exists). I don't seem to be able to find the simple search or "Get node by name" tag that will find that file .. I feel like I must be missing something obvious. I…
Have there been changes to CS 25.1 api/v2/nodes/{id}/nodes call?
Hi, I hope I haven't missed anything obvious. This call in CS 23.4 (and I think all the way up to 24.4) works just fine (servers are VMs): https://server6/otcs/cs.exe/api/v2/nodes/2000/nodes?fields=properties{parent_id,id,name,type,mime_type,create_date,modify_date}&fields=versions{id,version_number} The same call in 25.1…
CSUI FolderBrowserWidget CSS problem since upgrade to 24.4
Hello All, We encounter a CSS Problem for our Widget FolderBrowserWidget since we upgraded our extended ECM from 23.2 to 24.4. In 23.2 this widget worked fine and since we upgraded to 24.4 when you go to the properties of an object (document or folder) all fields (general or categorie) are not correctly rendered, some…
What do I need to create a session and log in using JS?
I'm trying to connect to an OpenText server using HTML and JS. This server contains all the folders and images I want to access via JS. I can access this server directly via URL and view the folders and all their content, but when I make the request(POST /v6/sessions) using JS and the same credentials, it returns a 401…
Nickname as parameter in a Content Server URL
Is there a parameter already existing for the nickname in Content Server classic view links? Instead of using /livelink/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=11111111&objAction=RunReport I would like to use /livelink/llisapi.dll?func=ll&nickname=mywebreport&objAction=RunReport. The goal is to use the same link to trigger the same…
Using a JSON object as a webreport source
I am writing a basic WebReport to modify document attributes. However, the specific data IDs I want to modify are being sent as a JSON object in the raw body of an API request. How can I use a WebReport (or live report) to accept the JSON object and apply WebReport tags? The body of the API is formatted like this: {…
Login to CS / OTDS without providing password in SSO environment
Hello Experts, I couldn't find a post on getting OTCS ticket from OTDS in SSO environment without providing password, if there is such, I apologize for duplication. Now back to question: We have SSO setup with Azure AD, when users logs in to CS, call is redirected to OTDS, which it then redirects to Azure. Our environment…
How to make entire content server read only so that noone can make changes until migration completes
How to make entire content server read only so that noone can make changes until migration completes. We tried Web Report to update folders/projects/files permissions set as see,seecontents but it is very time consuming. Is there any quicker way?
Archive Server Health Status endpoint with curl
Hi How-To query the Archive Server Health Status endpoint with curl? http://localhost:8080/archive/monitoring http://localhost:8080/archive/monitoring/secure/monc.html There seems some auth. Is there a response in JSON or a similar machine readable format?
REST API - Initiating a workflow with attributes (string and numeric)
Hi, I believe I have WF init via the REST API working, except for setting attributes. I start the process with a call to get a draft process. That is, a POST of http://{{cshost}}/{{cshosturi}}/api/v2/draftprocesses Then I call the draft process again using a PUT:…
Uploading document using Java11 (rest-api)
Hi , Kindly assist in Java error, we were able to upload a document to OTCS using Java7 , however once compiling the same java code in Java11, the below error is coming up as per screenshot. Please advise. Regards, Vishnu