dcr-type for ECM connector

I wanted to know difference/comparison for dcr-types for ECM connector?

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Can you be a little more specific? I am not sure what you are looking for?

What version of the ECM connector are you referring to, etc.?

Nicholas

ECM connector 2.0 and talking about the dcr-type (xml,iwov) in templating.cfg for data-type.

Thanks Nicholas

Nicholas

Could someone proceed this thread?

cliff1

Nicholas,

Your question is very terse, so it's hard to know exactly what information you need. Can you add a couple of more sentences that explain the issue that you are trying to solve? It is really helpful for the responders if your questions error on the side of "too much" information instead of "too little".

The differences between dcr-type="iwov" and dcr-type="xml" has very little to do with the ECM Connector. The difference between these is that "xml" type gives the customer the ability to control the syntax (schema) of the XML that is stored in the DCR when the form is saved. The "iwov" style uses a predefined XML syntax that is very generic. The "iwov" style has been around longer, but the best practice for creating new DCTs is to use the "xml" format so the DCR records will conform to your format. For more information, please look at the Forms Publisher guide.

The ECM Connector 2.0 supports both "xml" and "iwov" style, but more testing was done with "xml" style since we expect more customers to use that option for new forms.

I hope this comes close to what you are looking for?

Regards,
Cliff

As and aside, I never liked the terms "xml" and "iwov". The "iwov" style produces well-formed XML that conforms to a published DTD. I would have perferred the term "customer-defined" instead of "xml" for dcr-type. Oh well...

Nicholas

when i set dcr-type=xml, it works fine but if iwov it does not work.

Can you clarify this? is there some method to access them differently?

Thanks Nicholas

cliff1

The syntax of the datacapture.cfg file (aka DCT) is very different between an "iwov" and "xml" styles. You can't just go into templating.cfg and change the type and expect it to work, you would need to rewrite the DCT. Explaining the differences between "iwov" and "xml" style DCT is fairly extensive -- please see the formspublisher developer's guide (TeamSite product manuals).

There are examples of each style in the out-of-the-box examples (under $iw-home/examples/Templating/templatedata) if you want to compare and contrast. More specifically, you may want to look at the ecm/press-release and ecm/press-release-iwov exmples. These attempt to do the same thing using the different formats of DCTs.

-Cliff