Hidden item on tagger ui

I want to set the value on a EA field when user launch the tagger ui without user noticing it. So in datacapture.cfg, I added one item:

<item name="Test">
<hidden/>
<checkbox required="t">
<option label="Yes" value="Y" selected="t"/>
</checkbox>
</item>

However, this did not achieve what I wanted to do:
First of all, the item is not entirely hidden: I still see item name "Test" on the tagger ui, except for I can't see the checkbox, but I see the message "You can't view this value".
Second, after I click "save and close" and view the file property, the Test EA does not have any value set, even though I put selected="t" for the "Y" option.

I'm using TS6.5 on windows2003 and MetaTagger 3.6. But the "Test" item is not managed by MetaTagger.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

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Adam Stoller

Create a custom menu item and put it in place of the OOTB Tag option - have the custom menu item run iwextattr to set the EA you want, and then invoke the real set metadata CGI.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Migrateduser

That's not a bad idea, thanks. Could you please be more specific as to how do I go invoke the set metadata CGI from my custom menu item? What parameters does the set metadata CGI expect me to pass on?

Adam Stoller

I don't remember off hand, but I believe that IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin/iwmetadata.cgi is a Perl script (unfortunrately without POD) and you can probably read through it to determine what parameters its looking for.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Johnny

If you are using a PERL CGI you could simply tunnel all the params onto the tagger UI

TeamSite::CGI_lite has a tunnel method

John Cuiuli

Migrateduser

I got it to work. Thanks!