How do I build a SessionString with CSSDK (.NET)?

Teamsite 6.1 SP2 / Windows / ContentServices 2.1 / C# .NET

Hi,

I'm developing a portlet that allows casual users to import a document into Teamsite, it then kicks off a workflow to prompt them to add metadata using the standard content center wizard. It should appear seamless to the users and not apparent that they are in Teamsite.

The application uses the URL Command "newjob" to start the workflow and it works fine except I don't want it to prompt the user for a password. It should authenticate as a specified Teamsite user created for this purpose. In order to achieve this I've been trying to use the CSSDK to authenticate and retrieve a sessionString to include in the URL. That's where I'm having problems and need some help.

The application is .NET and resides on another server so I'm using webservices. I have a reference to the contentservices.wsdl in my VS project - so far so good, I can now see all the methods and properties exposed but I don't know where to go from here. The documentation for .NET use of the CSSDK appears to be limited to an extremely basic GetBranches console application and I can't find much else. Can anyone point me in the right direction for more doco?

From the GetBranches example I can see there is a beginSessionUsingPassword method and the returned CSLoginInfo.Context has a property called SessionString but I don't know how to fit it all together, even when I hard code the username and password in my code the sessionstring is always returned empty.

Any help greatly appreciated - even just to know there are folk out there using the .NET CS Web Service would be nice

cheers
Ani

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Migrateduser

I'm not sure if you checked out this library article or not:

http://devnet.interwoven.com/site.fcgi/techlib/050399

regards,

lissa

Anip

Indeed I have, in fact that's the "extremely basic GetBranches console application " I was referring to. Which appears to be the only documentation and samples I can find anywhere on this subject.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't mock but I so nearly wrote a p.s. on my post to say please don't point me to article 50399. While I've been searching for answers to this question I've found no end of posts from people, equally hunting documentation but failing, asking for help from others who've struggled through it and just about every one of those posts has a message pointing them to article 50399.

The amount of .NET documentation, when compared to the Java offering, is ridiculously small. .NET isn't going away, it's booming and it's to Interwoven's credit that they've exposed their API's to this environment. It's only a shame there doesn't appear to be the support and documentation to help us all use it.

Migrateduser

no one is doubting that .net is here to stay. Microsoft will most definately make it so.

One of the reasons there is more java information than .net is that the Interwoven TS product is written in Java, not in .net. THat means the developers have had more experience with it.

This is in contrast to the MediaBin project, where they use some of the .net framework.

From your post I could not tell what you had looked at.
Regards,

lissa