Inter DCT communication

Hi,

The user enters a value for an item in DCT A. When the user creates a New Form Entry for DCT B, the value for the same item should be retreived from DCT A and automatically populated in DCT B. Please let me know whether this can be accomplished. and if it can be, how?

Thanks,
Kiran.

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Adam Stoller

Hi,

The user enters a value for an item in DCT A. When the user creates a New Form Entry for DCT B, the value for the same item should be retreived from DCT A and automatically populated in DCT B. Please let me know whether this can be accomplished. and if it can be, how?

Thanks,
Kiran.

You're being a bit too vague here.
First of all - please make sure if you're talking about DCTs or DCRs or which combination of the two (for instance, you will not be retrieving a value from DCT A to populate a field in DCT B.

You also need to provide some information about how A and B are related or referenced from within one another.

If I were to assume the information that you did not include in your post - the answer would be - yes it can be accomplished; but depending on what I chose to assume, the answer of how could be:

KiranM

Hi ghoti,

Yah, i agree the information i gave here was very vague. I will try to elaborate it to my best here.

I have DCT A in which there are two items "Type" and "Value". I will enter the values here for both the items and save the DCR. I have another DCT B in which i have these two items again. But in this case when i select "Type", the "Value" item should be automatically populated with value from DCR A "Value" item, provided the "Type" value matches.

My question is how can DCR A and DCT B be interlinked? Whether TS provides any API to accomplish this task.

I have thought of writing the Type and Value as Key-value pair in a properties file and do the job with the help of a perl script.

I will appreciate if a better solution can be derived from the experts of TS.

Thanks,
Kiran.

ISCBorisB

Hi ghoti,

Yah, i agree the information i gave here was very vague. I will try to elaborate it to my best here.

I have DCT A in which there are two items "Type" and "Value". I will enter the values here for both the items and save the DCR. I have another DCT B in which i have these two items again. But in this case when i select "Type", the "Value" item should be automatically populated with value from DCR A "Value" item, provided the "Type" value matches.

My question is how can DCR A and DCT B be interlinked? Whether TS provides any API to accomplish this task.

I have thought of writing the Type and Value as Key-value pair in a properties file and do the job with the help of a perl script.

I will appreciate if a better solution can be derived from the experts of TS.

Thanks,
Kiran.

You may want to take a look at [thread=20694]this[/thread] thread, it outlines couple options.
Note that FormAPI's callServer usage is the traditional way to do this sort of processing