Reformatting existing DCRs

alanhill

Hi,

I'm sure this must have come up somewhere before...

I'm amending a datacapture.cfg file and as part of this I need to amend the structure of the xml that is saved in the DCR. As an example..

An existing DCR looks like:

<item name="Main">
<value>
<item name="Content">
<value>some text here</value>
</item>
</value>
</item>

whereas a new one wants to look like:

<item name="Body">
<value>
<item name="Formatted_Content">
<value>
<item name="Content">
<value>some text here</value>
</item>
</value>
</item>
</value>
</item>


The change basically was to add an option to allow users to create a formatted content box, or a plain content box, at present they can only create formatted content.

To allow this to be as efficient as possible, I need to amend any existing DCRs (using formatted content) to match the xml structure of new DCRs. This will then allow these dcrs to be edited with the new template without losing any data.

I was planning to write a perl script that as a one-off could search the templatedata folders and identify applicable dcrs. This is fairly easy, but actually reformatting the xml is proving a little tricky.

Does anyone have any scripts that have something similar in the past that they could provide me, or have any ideas of better ways to do this reformatting (a lovely visual way of dragging an existing element onto it's new equivalent would be lovely but I wouldn't imagine Interwoven have anything like that - please prove me wrong Interwoven).

Many thanks folks...

Teamsite Template Developer

jbonifaci

If you are just adding a new item, you do not need to add it to your DCRs, unless you want to pre-populate it with something. If you are just trying to add an empty item, don't worry about it, it isn't needed. You should still be able to open all existing DCRs and everything should work fine, your new item will show up and be empty. As long as you haven't changed the names or structures of your existing items, you don't have to worry.

If you find you need to manipulate your DCRs, you'll need to write a script to modify each one using your favorite xml manipulation method. I always prefer doing everything with regex's for performance reasons, but feel free to use your favorite xml parser to do this as well. All you're really doing is manipulating some text, it's pretty simple stuff once you actually sit down and do it.

~Jeff