getting vpath in inline file in metadata

HI,

Im working with TS 6.5 on Solaris.

Im setting metadata for a file residing within a workarea.
Ex: /iwmnt/backstore/main/branch1/subbranch/WORKAREA/main_wa/aaa.jsp
This datacapture.cfg for the metadata has an inline command which populates some value based on its DCT type.

To check its dct type in the inline command I need the full file path along with the file name("/iwmnt/backstore/main/branch1/subbranch/WORKAREA/main_wa/aaa.jsp"). How do I get this in the inline command file ?

Thanks & Regards,
Meha

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Adam Stoller

HI,

Im working with TS 6.5 on Solaris.

Im setting metadata for a file residing within a workarea.
Ex: /iwmnt/backstore/main/branch1/subbranch/WORKAREA/main_wa/aaa.jsp
This datacapture.cfg for the metadata has an inline command which populates some value based on its DCT type.

To check its dct type in the inline command I need the full file path along with the file name("/iwmnt/backstore/main/branch1/subbranch/WORKAREA/main_wa/aaa.jsp"). How do I get this in the inline command file ?

Thanks & Regards,
Meha

I suggest you read the FormsPublisher Developer's Guide - the section entitled The <inline> Subelement - carefully. You should see the information there that should guide you to the solution you need.

meha

Hi Fish,

I had gone thru that section. But it only gives the "IW_WORKAREA". I need a little more information beyond that. The path shld include the file name as well as the folder details within which its created.

Thanks & Regards,
Meha

ISCBorisB

...How do I get this in the inline command file?

You simply can't get related File information, not from the inline code itself anyway. TST Engine uses "inlines" to build Data Capture template,
before it is applied to any particular file, DCT or MDCT regardless. File may not even exist at a time (NewForm and related CLTs)

Adam Stoller

Hi Fish,

I had gone thru that section. But it only gives the "IW_WORKAREA". I need a little more information beyond that. The path shld include the file name as well as the folder details within which its created.

Thanks & Regards,
Meha

I was thinking about IW_DCT - which will give you the full path to the DCT, from which you can extract the data-type information you initially said you were looking for -- however, on thinking about this a bit more - you indicated you are setting metadata - so I'm assuming this is an inline script from the metadata capture DCT and not from the FormsPublisher DCT - if that's the case, then IW_DCT won't be of much use since it will probably point to iwhome/local/config/datacapture.cfg (if it exists at all)

If you're setting metadata on a DCR or generated file - you could probably use a wrapper surrounding the tagging / set metadata process that captured the path and/or EA information of the file about to be tagged and include that information in some manner (perhaps as another EA or environment variable?) prior to issuing the actual tagging / set metadata UI.

meha

HI Fish,

Can you please explain a little more in detail, the solution you have explained.

But with what I have understood, even if we set an EA.. to retrieve that I need the file path.

My requirement is this:

There are different templates belonging to different category & data type. Now I generate a file out of a particular type and save it. Later I traverse to this file, select it for tagging. Now I have one field in the metadata form, which populates a drop-down with values that depende on this page "TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type".

To execute this in the inline perl file, I need the filepath for

"$iwhome/bin/iwextattr -g "TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type" $filepath".

Hope I have explained it clearly Smiley Happy

Is this possible ?

Thanks & Regards,
Meha k

Adam Stoller

HI Fish,

Can you please explain a little more in detail, the solution you have explained.

But with what I have understood, even if we set an EA.. to retrieve that I need the file path.

My requirement is this:

There are different templates belonging to different category & data type. Now I generate a file out of a particular type and save it. Later I traverse to this file, select it for tagging. Now I have one field in the metadata form, which populates a drop-down with values that depende on this page "TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type".

To execute this in the inline perl file, I need the filepath for

"$iwhome/bin/iwextattr -g "TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type" $filepath".

Hope I have explained it clearly

Is this possible ?

Thanks & Regards,
Meha k

You are setting metadata on a generated file - based on input that was selected in the DCR from whence it was generated?

Hmm - well I can think of several ways to approach this, all of which involve a fair degree of customization.

There are probably other alternatives as well - those are the two that come to mind most quickly though. In either case you need to figure out the pros/cons of the approaches relative to your own situation - sorry.