Need more clarification about ContentTransferProfile.geolocation

I am implementing ObjectServices to pull content from server to client side. I am using .net 3.5 and DFS 6.5

ContentTransferProfile transferProfile =

newContentTransferProfile();transferProfile.geolocation =

"NOT clear what to enter here";

transferProfile.transferMode = ContentTransferMode.BASE64;transferProfile.transferModeSpecified =

true;

Not that clear from DFS guide what value to enter at transferProfile.geolocation. It says, "Geolocation represents an area on the network’s topography,"

Is it a Repository name or Server name or something else ?

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abc123

The geographical location of the client computer is used to optimize content transfer, especially in ACS and BOCS. It's value is the client's location name, neither repository name nor server name.

PritamKadam

Hi Wei,

I discussed this topic with one of EMC expert, What he said about geolocation is that,

In distributed network system, If there are more than one Docbase, then geolocation will be a location closer to client location AND/OR local docbase location. Your content will transfer from main/remote docbase to local docbase.

Consider, If company has distributed network over nationwide, say Remote location (or main docbase) in Europe and nearest location for client is New York where you have local docbase. Then geolocation will be New York docbase location where you can maintain a local copy.

I have tested my code without setting anything to geolocation and it work well, because I am transfering data from local docbase which is nearest to me.

In case of Content Transfer to client's local machine, we need to set a path for client's machine. This only done after you received a content in DataPackage.

If anything is not correct or missleading please correct me on the same.

Thanks

Pritam