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How to Select a path when importing a file via DCT

lazybee26

Is there a way that user can browse to the directory where s/he wants to upload a file?

Situation
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Im using the import command url (given below) within a DCT, so it's easy to upload a file. But the vpath to upload the file is not dynamic.
What is the best way to give user the freedom to select a folder location to upload the file to?

Solution I'm using to upload a file
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Theory below will upload a file within "images" directory of the workarea1. But what if I have a few more sub dirs within that folder?

Pasted from a different thread - Search for "Here's an example of TS6 URL Commands: Importing
" to checkout this thread
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In TeamSite 6.0 please yourself & others by making use of the new URL commands.

Here's an example of how to use the Import Files widget within a Form item's callout (aka DCT) in 6.0:

<item name="Import Files">
<text size="25">
<cgi-callout url="http://TSserver/iw-cc/import?vpath=/default/main/development/WORKAREA/workarea1/images"
label="Import Files"
window-features="toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=yes,
scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes, menubar=no, width=630, height=450"/>
</text>
</item>

Note the URL command:

http://TSserver/iw-cc/import?vpath=/default/main/development/WORKAREA/workarea1

This invokes the standard import files applet used within the TeamSite CC UIs.

Edited by lazybee26 on 07/05/05 01:13 PM (server time).

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Migrateduser

If you want to customize this, you'll need to script it yourself -- but you can still use some of TS's functionality. I'll explain...

Instead of calling /iw-cc/import directly, call a home-grown script in httpd/iw-bin, for instance. This script should have an IFRAME that references /iw-cc/import. You'll need to do some funky things on the Javascript end, too, but that's a simple scenario.

More complex, which is unfortunately what I had to do last year with version 6.1, is have a script (or applet) that mimics the import applet. I had to rewrite this only because there was a lot of customization involved and rewriting it was less work than reverse engineering Interwoven's nebulous binaries.

So, I hope your situation is described better by the first scenario!

Dave

Current Environments:
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3 (x2 - diff. imp.)
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

ccprofessional

Hi Dave,

Just curious, how efficient was your cgi script that you placed in iw-bin/ ?

I heard cgi's are notoriously performance hogs, and iwov recommends servlets to do this type of stuff.

Migrateduser

Well, I guess a servlet would be better performance-wise, but the performance was excellent and it was on a Windows 2000 machine running TS 6.1 (I forget which SP). I don't think this implementation was using IIS, however; I think it was Apache, which has made considerable improvements with Perl/CGI performance in the past few years. Apache no longer cranks up the Perl interpreter for every .pl/.ipl request that comes in.

Anyway, as long as your Perl code makes sense, it'll work very well. If you prefer servlets, however (I happen not to, that's all), then that might actually be a bit better.

Dave

Current Environments:
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3 (x2 - diff. imp.)
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

lazybee26

Spent some time trying to reverse engineer "/iw-cc/command/iw.teamsite.import_dialog" thats called from a workflow. I mean it's used in the workflow when you want to import a file. This one allows you to select the path where you want to upload the file. But again, it's functionality is such that it's hard to use it directly within a DCT as a CGI callout.

So yes - you were right. I'll have to write something on my own.

Thanks a lot for your help.