Special Value Assistance on Custom Type

Hi,

In a deployment with Taskspace, the user wants to relate information from an external table into a custom type. The scenario is as follows:

A table with information of people (Name, Address, etc) exists on an external system. When a user creates a custom type X, he wants to add

the related people as a repetitive attribute, the problem starts here as when you add a repetitive attribute as keywords, you are only adding one string per keyword but not a complete registry as the ones in the people table.

The objective of doing this is that he wants to search the custom types X where exists a registry with the person W (by name or by id card).

With value assistance, one could only add one entry per attribute and showing only one value.

Any suggestions are welcome

Thanks

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DCTM_Guru

When "relating" this information from external table, are you going to allow the user to change the information? If not, then you should be able to use the Document Processor adaptor for the form to map the data from the external table to the object instance attributes.

Also, please move this thread to the Documentum Developer Network. Select "Move discussion" from the Actions menu and choose the appropriate forum, as described in the Guidelines. EMC is trying to have technical questions posted there:

https://community.emc.com/community/edn/documentum?view=discussions

jtrellest

Johnny, I tried to move the discussion but the Developer Network appears in grey.

The user is not going to update the external table.

The objective is to relate the people in this table with a folder or document (one to many relationship) and when the user searches for an object type by name, id card or phone, the objects types related with these people should be shown.

It would be great if the search shows an object type and when you select the object type, another table below the results table shows the related people. This because when you show repetitives attibutes on one column, they are show comma-separated. I don't know if this is possible using the Forms Builder templates.

mpraditt

I will move this thread over, and reply as soon as it's completed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

mpraditt

Move completed! Thanks!

-Manni

DCTM_Guru

In forms builder, you can create a custom forms adaptor to be used to do lookups. You should be able to do this based on your description of your scenario. Look in the forms builder developer guide on more details of how to create custom adaptors.