VBA and content server - inserting a document

pjmorce

Hello

I am trying to insert a file using VBA into documentum content server.

I cant find any documentation or example explaining how to do that.

Actually my code is like that:

Dim cx As DfClientX

Dim client As IDfClient

Dim session As IDfSession

Dim li As IDfLoginInfo

Dim newDoc As IDfPersistentObject

Set cx = New DfClientX

Set client = cx.getLocalClient

Set li = cx.getLoginInfo

li.setUser ("barthur")

li.setPassword ("barthur")

Set session = client.newSession("documentum", li)

Set newDoc = session.newObject("dm_document")

newDoc.setString "Name", "atrvalue" => In that line, an exception is thrown saying that Name is not a valid attribute

newDoc.Save

1 - What I am missing?

2 - How can I say that newDoc will be a file?

3 - Is there any place where I can find documentation about using Documentum with VBA?

Thanks

regards

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Comments

DCTM_Guru

1. Name is not the official attribute name for dm_document (its just the label). The proper attribute name is "object_name".

2. If you want to "insert" an existing document (on your computer) into the repository, you need to import it. newObject creates a new instance of the document based on existing document template in the repository (basically it makes a copy).

3. There used to be a DFC-PIA connector that may have had some samples, but that has since been replaced with .NET.

pjmorce

Hello

I made some improvments, and now, I am able to insert a new document into content server.

Here is the code:

Dim o2 As IDfSysObject

...

Set o2 = session.newObject("dm_document")

o2.setObjectName "abcd"

o2.setSubject "ssss"

'o2.setPath "Cabinets/Temp/myfolder", "", 0, "q"

o2.Save

With this code a new "abcd" document is created into content server.

Now, I would like to be able to:

1 - create the document into a given folder (I tried with the commented line but it does not work). The syntax for setPath method is the following one:

.setPath fileName as String, formatName as String, pageNumber as Long, otherFile as String

=> I don't know the value for formatName, pageNumber and otherFile

=> I dont't know where to find documentation about this method

2 - assign a file to the document (a word file, and more precisely, the word file used on the Word window where the VBA Macro is called)

Anyone can help me about that?

Thanks

Regards

DCTM_Guru

1. Look in the Content Server API manual for argument definitions

2. Look at setFile API if you want to link object to existing file