Custom portlet to list all DCRs in a workarea

Environment: TS 6.5 SP3 on a Win2K server

I'm trying to build a custom portlet for the CC Standard UI that will list all of the DCRs in a user's workarea(s). I'm able to successfully enumerate a user's workareas no problem. However, when I try to get the list of DCRs it's not returning what I would expect. Here is the JSP that I'm using to build the list of DCRs:[html]<%--
/**
* List of files in /data dirs of workarea.
* List all files in the /templatedata/site/ template dirs.
*/
--%>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>

<%@ page import="com.interwoven.cssdk.access.CSUser" %>
<%@ page import="com.interwoven.cssdk.common.CSClient" %>
<%@ page import="com.interwoven.cssdk.filesys.*" %>

<%
String filePath = "/default/main/Internal/Intranet";

// get the cs client
CSClient client = (CSClient)request.getAttribute( "iw.csclient");
CSBranch branch = client.getBranch(new CSVPath(filePath), false);
%> <% // get the current user and then get their workareas CSUser user = client.getCurrentUser(); CSWorkarea[] workareas = branch.getWorkareasForUser(user, true); // loop through the user's workareas for(int x=0; x {%> <%= workareas.getName()%> <% // build the workarea specific vpath String workareaVpath = "/default/main/Internal/Intranet/" + workareas.getName() + "/WORKAREA/" + workareas.getName(); CSWorkarea workarea = client.getWorkarea(new CSVPath(workareaVpath), false); // create the array of area relative paths to the various data directories CSAreaRelativePath[] filepaths = new CSAreaRelativePath[16]; filepaths[0] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/about us/data/"); filepaths[1] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/blank/data/"); filepaths[2] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/bookmark/data/"); filepaths[3] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/calendar of events/data/"); filepaths[4] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/contact us (by name)/data/"); filepaths[5] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/contact us (by topic)/data/"); filepaths[6] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/faq/data/"); filepaths[7] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/feedback/data/"); filepaths[8] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/filenet/data/"); filepaths[9] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/glossary/data/"); filepaths[10] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/home/data/"); filepaths[11] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/navigation/data/"); filepaths[12] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/related sites/data/"); filepaths[13] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/related sites (custom)/data/"); filepaths[14] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/site administration/data/"); filepaths[15] = new CSAreaRelativePath("templatedata/site/what's new/data/"); // get the files from all of the above workareas CSFile[] files = workarea.getFiles(filepaths); // loop through the files and output them in the table for(int y=0; y {%> <%= files.getName() %> <% } }%>

[/html]
What I get back is the following (the test user account I'm working with has access to "Web Delivery" and "HR"):
Web Delivery
data
data
data
[...]
HR
data
data
data
[...]
Essentially I just get "data" 16 times for each workarea. It's just picking up the last directory from the area relative vpath that I provide. Why is it not listing the files in these directories (there are indeed files in many, but not all, of them)? Thanks.

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ISCBorisB

Unless I'm missing something here... You seem to have a problem with the WA'a vpath, building something like
/default/main/Internal/Intranet/WebDelivery/WORKAREA/WebDelivery,
/default/main/Internal/Intranet/HR/WORKAREA/HR...

Not that it's an impossible Branching structure, far from it. Only problem is, you've requested
User's Workareas from another Branch, /default/main/Internal/Intranet.

Lex

Unless I'm missing something here... You seem to have a problem with the WA'a vpath, building something like
/default/main/Internal/Intranet/WebDelivery/WORKAREA/WebDelivery,
/default/main/Internal/Intranet/HR/WORKAREA/HR...

Not that it's an impossible Branching structure, far from it. Only problem is, you've requested
User's Workareas from another Branch, /default/main/Internal/Intranet.

It's probably not a best practice, but that's how we've structured this. /default/main/Internal/Intranet is the parent branch under which the individual intranet sites all have their own branch/workarea. The call to getWorkareasForUser at the top level branch of /default/main/Internal/Intranet with true passed retrieves all the workareas the user has access to regardless of which sub-branch they actually exist in. That part is working fine, it's the listing of individual files under the templatedata/site/*/data folders that's throwing me for a loop.

Lex

I think I've discovered my problem. I just reread the docs for this method and noticed this:

Returns:
an array containing the returned files, with one file for each path

So looks like it's designed to only return a single file for each area relative vpath you feed it (although why it's returning the "data" directory as the single file I have no idea). That seems really weird, but in any case I'm back to the drawing board with trying to figure out a way to list the files in each of the /data directories.

Bill Klish

I think you need to approach this a little differently. You need to use your hard coded area relative paths to get a CSDir object for each of those data directories. Then execute a CSDir.getFiles and specify that you want DCRs only returned. Then iterate the CSIterator object which will contain all of your file paths.

Lex

I think you need to approach this a little differently. You need to use your hard coded area relative paths to get a CSDir object for each of those data directories. Then execute a CSDir.getFiles and specify that you want DCRs only returned. Then iterate the CSIterator object which will contain all of your file paths.

That's what I wanted to do, but it looks like there's no constructor for CSDir that allows you to pass a path. I couldn't find anything that returned a CSDir that I could use.