IDfCAStore creating Content Attribute dynamically

Prashant_Kasbe_C

Hello Experts,

I've a strange requirements.

1.     We archive documents in Centera along with Content Attribute ( i.e. metadata.) for the dm_ca_store object.

2.     Limitation on storing metadata is 255 characters per metadata.

3.     What we are trying to do is, in case the length of metadata is more than 255, we will store them in different metadata adding incrementing count to the existing one.

Example: attribute_name is the metadata and if the value exceeds 255 char then we need to store them in attribute_name1, attribute_name2 and so on untill entire value is accomodated.

Problem scenario:

for storing values in attribute_name1, attribute_name2, and so on, we need to define them at dm_ca_store level. Since we are identifying the length of metadata dynamically I'm not sure how can I create attribute_name1, attribute_name2 and so on dynamically.

I believe the IDfCAStore interface is added recently with DFC 6.5 api onwards.

Any help is this regards will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Prashant kasbe

DCTM_Guru

You cant define them dynamically.  You will need to predefined them given you knowledge of existing metadata lengths (eg attribute_title1, attribute_title2, attribute_title3, attribute_subject1, attribute_subject2, etc). Also, keep in mind, according to Object Reference manual:

a_content_attr_name - This property can have a maximum of 62 values.

This means your storing mechanism will still have an upper limit and may get truncated depending on how much other data you are trying to store.