Need help calling iwmerge.cgi from a workflow

JNLITeamsite

Our quality assurance folks need a workflow where they can diff a file with a previously published copy of the file.

Basically, this is the same functionality that you get by doing View->History and clicking on Source Diff, but we need to do it in a workflow.

Looking at how Source Diff functions, we can see that it calls iwmerge.cgi and launches an applet.

Instead of building something from scratch that does diffs, I'd like to use iwmerge.cgi but I am having some trouble figuring out how to call iwmerge.cgi with the right variables.

I've sniffed the traffic to try to figure out how to launch iwmerge.cgi with the right posted variables. I cannot figure out how the area (arid), branch (brid), workarea (waid) are encoded, where the count comes from and the strange mangling of the filenames being compared.

Here's an example string we sniffed during a call to iwmerge.cgi

arid=ZAAAAAAAAgIA&brid=FSwoAAAAAAAAiUw&waid=FSwvAAAAAAAAhAw&dirid=QAAEAREpyUAAAQCc&submit_comment=&submit_info=&iwname=&label=&owner=&keepchks=false&getlatest=true&confonly=false&pageid=23&msel_action=srcdiff&count=9296&has_applet_support=true&has_applet_support=true&iw_locale=en&iw_locale=en&F%7CQAAEAREpyUAAAQCc%7CDTCPTS.html=true&F%7COHJ3AOHJ3AAAQCI%7CDTCPTS.html=true&iwcgi_hook=true

We're still on Teamsite 5.5.2

Any help would be appreciated.

Migrateduser

I am just guessing as I dont have access to TS 5.5.2
- arid:- TeamSite edition id
- brid:- TeamSite branch id
- waid:- TeamSite workarea id
- dirid:- TeamSite directory id

For every asset in TeamSite there a id associated with, you can get the id of file/directory/workarea/branch/edition etc using iwattrib vpath id.

I think iwmerge.cgi is using TeamSite object id's insted of vpath is due to the limitation of amount of information that you can pass in the querry string.