VD Manager/Viewer and BrowserTree issue

stefan.hoferer

Dear all,

I am currently facing the following problem with WebTop 6.5 SP3:

I have several VDs that are linked to multiple locations:

/userCabinet1

/Repository/subfolder1/subfolder2/...

/CentralRepository

dm_world has at least browse permissions for all folders and cabinets.

1st and 3rd cabinet have the is_private flag set to true. I.e. they are not visible in WebTop.

The problem occurs when I try to open any VD from search or versions component.

The  VD will be displayed in the content pane. The BrowserTree however  selects the first visible cabinet. This cabinet does not have any link  to the VD and thus the VD structure is not shown in the BrowserTree.

If I browse to the VDs location manually I can open the VD without this problem.

I had a look into the onInit methods in VDMList class and came  across queryPrimaryFolderPath(IDfSession dfSession, String strObjectId)  which indeed returns /userCabinet1 as the primary folder. Unfortunately,  I do not see an option to replace this call by a custom one that will  return another folder path.

Obviously, one solution for my  problem would be to change the ACLs of all user cabinets but I am  trying to find a programmatically solution.

So what I am looking for is an option to "inject" the correct  folder. I tried adding some parameters to the argument list with no  success. Most of the suitable methods are declared private and thus not  available for customization...

Has anyone been facing a similar problem?

Cheers!

Stefan

lastnitescurry

Primary Folder path is the problem. That is the first folder a document is linked to. It gets tricky in that the document maybe only linked to one folder but that folder or any of its parents, maybe linked to multiple folders..... In Intranet Client days I wrote a custom locations component to display all possible location paths... Was rather scary to see it go over 2 or 3 hundred paths for one document.

Solution Options

a) Suggest you leave the client alone

Suggest you write a job/method to locate all items with multiple links and those links which lead to private areas, home cabinets. For each item, where primary path leads to home cabinet, unlink, save changes, and relink.

b) Create custom locations tool to display all possible paths a document can have.

Add a feature to allow ADMIN/POWER users to set a path a "primary" via unlinking and relinking... would have to be done as a method to avoid security.