how to catch Copy event?

Hi all,
I want to execute a perl script whenever a DCR/Directory is copied to other branch/place. Is there any event like CreateFSE?
iwatupload.ipl works only for "Copy To" but copy event is not triggered ( in iwevents.log it shows only CreateFSE event though an entry is done in iw.cfg)
Any pointer to this issue?

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Adam Stoller

Hi all,
I want to execute a perl script whenever a DCR/Directory is copied to other branch/place. Is there any event like CreateFSE?
iwatupload.ipl works only for "Copy To" but copy event is not triggered ( in iwevents.log it shows only CreateFSE event though an entry is done in iw.cfg)
Any pointer to this issue?

There is no "copy event" - a copy is a read of one file and then the creation of an identical file in a different location - hence the CreateFSE.

If you want to manage the functionality within the GUI - you will need to remove the OOTB menu items and replace them with your own custom menu items that perform the operations you wish to perform.

I did this in the past, when we wanted to make sure that anyone attempting to rename a DCR (or generated file) actually renamed the DCR and all the generated files from that DCR - and/or - made sure that they could not move DCRs outside of their existing data-type/data/ directory structure and so forth.

nagendra

'I did this in the past' - ghoti

Could you please brief about approach you have followed to acheive customized copy? I have a requirement which needs a copy of DCR should not create duplicate id in its metadata (Ex: I have one DCR with id field filled as '1'; when author make a copy of this DCR, I should change the id field to '2' in the new DCR)

I try to get solution by using custom URLs with done_page attribute, but I could not able to find the location of the new DCR that got created by copy action to done_page script.

I tried with command triggers, here again I faced problem in identify the copy event.

-regards,
nagendra

Adam Stoller

'I did this in the past' - ghoti

Could you please brief about approach you have followed to acheive customized copy? I have a requirement which needs a copy of DCR should not create duplicate id in its metadata (Ex: I have one DCR with id field filled as '1'; when author make a copy of this DCR, I should change the id field to '2' in the new DCR)

I try to get solution by using custom URLs with done_page attribute, but I could not able to find the location of the new DCR that got created by copy action to done_page script.

I tried with command triggers, here again I faced problem in identify the copy event.

-regards,
nagendra

We completely replaced the OOTB Copy menu item with our own custom menu item - using our own script to prompt for the name/location of the to-be-created copy and then take care of the other issues we needed to take care of.

The details are specific to the needs - in your case you would need to create the copy and then modify the [meta]data on the copy.

nagendra

Are you mean to say the location of the destination file is predefined in your case?

Adam Stoller

Are you mean to say the location of the destination file is predefined in your case?

No - we prompted for that information and then used the value submitted via the CGI form to perform the copy and do the other things we wanted to do.

Essentially - assume you are starting from scratch without any code provided by IWOV.