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DCR extended attribs

Bhargav Coca

There were several posts on this, but none were clear to me. I have a template
which has auto-naming functionality. So the DCR is auto named and when submitted through the workflow will auto generate and attach the html along with it. I have set some extended attributes for the html as shown below, but before doing this, i want to set the same EA's for my DCR. How can i do that?

My EA's values are coming out of the DCR. so i have to get them and set them later. I have trouble getting the areapath and the DCR name, if can get this i can use iwextattr -s attibute=value.

Please any advice here.

Thank you

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 use TeamSite::Config; my $IWMount = TemSite::Config::iwgetmount(); ### Set the extended attributes ### my $OFile = iwpt_get_ofile_name(); $OFile =~s#\\#/#g; open(MYFILE, ">$OFile"); #We have to create our output file before setting the attributes close(MYFILE); my $IWHome = TeamSite::Config::iwgethome(); $IWHome =~s#\\#/#g; my $IWExtAttr = "$IWHome/bin/iwextattr.exe"; my $setTitle = "$IWExtAttr -s \"Title\"=\"".iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Title') ."\" $OFile"; my $setLocation= "$IWExtAttr -s \"Filename\"=\"".iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Location') ."\" $OFile"; my $setPressReleaseDate= "$IWExtAttr -s \"PressReleaseDate\"=\"".iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.PressReleaseDate') ."\" $OFile"; system($setTitle); system($setLocation); system($setPressReleaseDate); 
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Migrateduser

My EA's values are coming out of the DCR. so i have to get them and set them later. I have trouble getting the areapath and the DCR name, if can get this i can use iwextattr -s attibute=value.

As you are using this in the workflow process the areavpath is passed to the script via the command line arguments. You can get the DCR files from the attached workflow file list.

Bhargav Coca

No the piece of code i have provided above is from the tpl not from the workflow. In the workflow want the EA's aleady set on the DCR so that i can manipulate them as i wanted. I want to incoporate iwextattr in the tpl itself.

Has anyone implemented any such thing.

Thanks

Cross table example.doc

ISCBorisB

No the piece of code i have provided above is from the tpl not from the workflow. In the workflow want the EA's aleady set on the DCR so that i can manipulate them as i wanted. I want to incoporate iwextattr in the tpl itself.

Has anyone implemented any such thing.

Thanks

[html] my $dcr_path_name = iwpt_get_dcr_name(); [/html]

Bhargav Coca

Thank you i totally forgot that. And my setting EA's is working fine from CLT. But the same path is not working inside the tpl.

Please advice.


my $dcr_path_name = iwpt_get_dcr_name();
iwpt_output($dcr_path_name);
my $setTitle = "$IWExtAttr -s \"Title\"=\""iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Title')"   "$dcr_path_name";

Adam Stoller

Thank you i totally forgot that. And my setting EA's is working fine from CLT. But the same path is not working inside the tpl.

Please advice.
my $dcr_path_name = iwpt_get_dcr_name();
iwpt_output($dcr_path_name);
my $setTitle = "$IWExtAttr -s \"Title\"=\""iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Title')"   "$dcr_path_name";

You're messing up your quotes - try:

my $setTitle = qq[$IWExtAttr -s "Title=]. iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Title') . qq[" "$dcr_path_name"];
iwpt_output("CMD: $setTitle"); # for debugging purposes
my @results = qx($setTitle 2>&1);
iwpt_output("ERROR? @results") if ($?); # for debugging purposes

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Bhargav Coca

Thanks all. OK here is the deal,from the tpl its quite evident that EA's are set when ever there is a preview or a generate functionality run on the DCR. As per my design the this apart is taken care i the workflow.

Now i am in a situation where EA's on DCR should be set before the actual generation of html file because i am generating the file based on the Publishingdate which i am retrieving it from the EA's on the DCR. So if the date is 07/24/2006 i would generate my html file in 2006 folder.

I am assuming that i am confused on my logic.

One more thing which i was thinking of maybe i have to include a task int he workflow which exclusively sets the EA's followed by a task which collects them for manipulation. There is no way that these too things can be done in one single task..

Any thoughts please.

Thank you

Migrateduser

Thanks all. OK here is the deal,from the tpl its quite evident that EA's are set when ever there is a preview or a generate functionality run on the DCR. As per my design the this apart is taken care i the workflow.

Now i am in a situation where EA's on DCR should be set before the actual generation of html file because i am generating the file based on the Publishingdate which i am retrieving it from the EA's on the DCR. So if the date is 07/24/2006 i would generate my html file in 2006 folder.

I am assuming that i am confused on my logic.

One more thing which i was thinking of maybe i have to include a task int he workflow which exclusively sets the EA's followed by a task which collects them for manipulation. There is no way that these too things can be done in one single task..

Any thoughts please.

Thank you

You can accomplish both seting the EA's to DCR, generating the html files using tpl's in a single externaltask. Its more of a design and maintenace issue adding all the logic in a single externaltask.

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Bhargav Coca

In my case i really doubt it. Because i am collecting the EA from the DCR to create the html, and i can't set EA unless i generate an html. So i need an additional External task which would do what i wanted to get done.

Thanks

JonathonG

I'm not sure what "Publishingdate" is, but assuming it is somehow related to DCR data or DCR save time, you could use FormAPI onSave and callServer to set the EAs at save time.

Bhargav Coca

Yes i have seen this post before. i am not good at FormAPI. I would rather incoporate a task which sets the EA's and i can use them later in the consecutive external task.

I amlearning to work more on callservers but never was comfortable with it. Can you please direct me to correct example for callserver usage with formapi. andy written example. I know i need to call the url with the callserver and utilize the data from there,but now sure how it is done. I need a very simple working example.

Thank you

Migrateduser

In my case i really doubt it. Because i am collecting the EA from the DCR to create the html, and i can't set EA unless i generate an html. So i need an additional External task which would do what i wanted to get done.

Thanks

I hope this will help in understanding externaltasks.

.. usertask -> externaltask1(generate html) -> externaltas2(set EA's) -> usertask ...
The above workflow can be simplyfied to
... usertask -> externaltask12(generate html & set EA's) -> usertask ...

In your case generating first generate the html and then set the EA's to the newly generated html files.

Bhargav Coca

I guess you are confused or i made it more confusing for you.

The situation here is

ExternalTask1(Set EA's on DCR) -> ExternalTask2(Generate html)

This above thing cannot be accomplished together. Because while generation the html i need the value of one of the EA's of the DCR to construct my path for the generating html file.

Thank you

Bhargav Coca

On the Contrary, i have an idea to use TeamSite: Smiley Very Happy

CRparser to get the value of the one field form the DCR in the external task and use that to construct my path for generating html file.

I am planning to use


$rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
    $city     = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate');          #07/24/2006

I hope i am correct. Please let me know if i am wrong.

Thank you

JonathonG

If your release date is stored as a value in the DCR, then, yes, you are correct. Don't use an EA, just parse the DCR in your html generation external task (like you have written).

Bhargav Coca

For this example


use TeamSite:CRnode;
$rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
    $city     = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate');

$xml_string is entire path to the DCR right?

"Y:\default\main\branch\workarea\datatype\data\DCRNAME"

butsome how this is not working for me. Can any one comment on this?

Thank you

nipper

Nope

slurp the contents of your XML file into $xml_string



open(IN, "<$file") || die " '$file' ($!)";
{
local $/ = undef;
$xml_code= ;
my $parser   = TeamSite:CRparser->new();  # create a DCRparser
  my $rootnode = $parser->parse($xml_code);        # get root DCRnode object
  if (!defined $rootnode)
  {
      print "BAD XML in DCR ".$file."\n";
      close(IN);
      exit(0);
  }
}

$city     = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate');

Adam Stoller

For this example
use TeamSite:CRnode;
$rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
    $city     = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate'); 
$xml_string is entire path to the DCR right?

"Y:\default\main\branch\workarea\datatype\data\DCRNAME"

butsome how this is not working for me. Can any one comment on this?

Thank you

The first comment is a pretty basic one - why are you trying to stuff the value of 'dcr.PressReleaseDate' into a variable called $city? ;-)

The second is a misunderstanding - $xml_string is the contents of the XML you wish to parse - not a pointer to the file containing the XML.

The simplest way to do this would be something like:

...
my $dcr = "/file/system/path/to/DCR";
open(IN, '<', $dcr) || die " '$dcr' ($!)";
my $xml_string = do { local $/;  };
close(IN);
my $rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
...

Bhargav Coca

I tried all the paths hard coding them as $file, none worked, it seems like i am making mistake somewhere. can anyone point me where i am going wrong.
Thanks


#my $file= "Y:/default/main/NECELAM/WORKAREA/Web/templatedata/MainPage/PressRelease/data/PressRelease2005";
my$file="PressRelease2005";
my $dcr = $file;
open(IN, '<', $dcr) || die " '$dcr' ($!)";
my $xml_string = do { local $/;  };
close(IN);
my $rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
$city     = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate');

Migrateduser

Did you get any error message when opening a the file.

Bhargav Coca

nothing actually i ran it in the workflow and at each and every point i have my debugging statements which print them to the log file, and my log file shows the starting statement where i prin the path of the DCR. That all it shows, it is not moving anywhere from there.

Please help.

Thanks

Adam Stoller

I tried all the paths hard coding them as $file, none worked, it seems like i am making mistake somewhere. can anyone point me where i am going wrong.
Thanks
#my $file= "Y:/default/main/NECELAM/WORKAREA/Web/templatedata/MainPage/PressRelease/data/PressRelease2005";
my$file="PressRelease2005";
my $dcr = $file;
open(IN, '<', $dcr) || die " '$dcr' ($!)";
my $xml_string = do { local $/; };
close(IN);
my $rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
$city = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate');

Whoops - My bad - I forgot to escape one of my '<'s - the proper way to set $xml_string is:

my $xml_string = do { local $/; <IN> };

then go back to using the full file-system path as the argument to open()

Bhargav Coca

OK now its kind of working but, i think my statement here is not right


my $city = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate'); 

print LOG "$city\n";

here is my DCR

[html]

Thisis a First relesefist release07/24/2006PressRelease2005Title of browserCommNEWChgdhgfdhgfdhgfdhgfd

[/html]

i am assuming that this has to be


my $city = $rootnode->value('record.PressReleaseDate'); 

print LOG "$city\n";

Please advice
Thank you

Adam Stoller

OK now its kind of working but, i think my statement here is not right
my $city = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate'); 

print LOG "$city\n";
here is my DCR

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE record SYSTEM "dcr4.5.dtd">
<record name="PressRelease2005" type="content">
  <!-- ... -->
  <item name="PressReleaseDate">
    <value>07/24/2006</value>
  </item>
  <!-- ... -->
  <item name="BodyCopy">
    <value>
      <font color="#000080">
        <p>
        </font>hgdhgfdhgfdhgfdhgfd<font color="#000080">
        </p>
      </font>
    </value>
  </item>
</record>

i am assuming that this has to be
my $city = $rootnode->value('record.PressReleaseDate'); 

print LOG "$city\n";
Please advice
Thank you

I'm a bit concerned about the invalid XML in the code I highlighted above - if this is truly within the DCR it's possible the parser is failing.

Bhargav Coca

Yes the higlighted part is in the DCR the "bodycopy" is a texarea where the end user will copy and paste any kind of content. I have tested it with random letters.

to debug this effectively i tried to run explicitly the ipl for parsing from the command line and here is my ipl and the results for two paths i have mentioned below.


use TeamSite:CRnode;
my $file="Y:\default\main\NECELAM\WORKAREA\Web\templatedata\MainPage\PressRelease\data\PressRelease2005";
#my $file="Y:/default/main/NECELAM/WORKAREA/Web/templatedata/MainPage/PressRelease/data/PressRelease2005";
my $dcr = $file;
open(IN, '<', $dcr) || die " '$dcr' ($!)";
my $xml_string = do { local $/;   };
close(IN);
my $rootnode = TeamSite:CRnode->new($xml_string);
$city = $rootnode->value('dcr.PressReleaseDate'); 

print "$city\n";

For the "/" path it does nothing for "\" path it give this error.


C:\Interwoven\TeamSite\iw-perl\bin>iwperl testme1.ipl
Missing braces on \N{} at testme1.ipl line 2, within string
Execution of testme1.ipl aborted due to compilation errors.

Thank you