Form API issue

I am simply grabbing the DCR mod date and saving it to the DCR onSave and I am getting the error "Save was unsuccessful. Invalid category/type null was received.". To be honest I have even tried to just use a simple system date in javascript and that doesn't work here either. Here is the code:

function init() {
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onSave",setModDate);
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onGenerate",getURL);
}

function setModDate () {
var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate();
IWDatacapture.getItem("/policy/Metadata/lifecycle/modify").setValue(dcrModDt);
return true;
}

function getURL () {
var dcrURL = IWPageGeneration.getOutputFile ();
IWDatacapture.getItem("/policy/Document Type/link/XML_URL").setValue(dcrURL);
return true;
}
init();
The function to get the generated page path works fine... Not sure what is wrong here.. The date does display in the textfield on the template, it just won't save.

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ISCBorisB

I am simply grabbing the DCR mod date and saving it to the DCR onSave and I am getting the error "Save was unsuccessful. Invalid category/type null was received.". To be honest I have even tried to just use a simple system date in javascript and that doesn't work here either. Here is the code:

function init() {
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onSave",setModDate);
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onGenerate",getURL);
}

function setModDate () {
var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate();
IWDatacapture.getItem("/policy/Metadata/lifecycle/modify").setValue(dcrModDt);
return true;
}

function getURL () {
var dcrURL = IWPageGeneration.getOutputFile ();
IWDatacapture.getItem("/policy/Document Type/link/XML_URL").setValue(dcrURL);
return true;
}
init();
The function to get the generated page path works fine... Not sure what is wrong here.. The date does display in the textfield on the template, it just won't save.

Chances are, your "onSave" event handler has nothing to do to the Save Failure.
Try to comment out corresponding "addFormHandler" in the init. Does Save work after that?

Check if DCR in question has Extended Attribute "TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type" set correctly

nipper

I am simply grabbing the DCR mod date and saving it to the DCR onSave and I am getting the error "Save was unsuccessful. Invalid category/type null was received.".

I have seen this error often when I set the path (i.e. I do not let the user name the DCR or path, FormAPI does) and i have an invalid path.

Happened yesterday, dir should have been /templatedata/data/cat/type/data/en_US/content/blah.xml but it was
/templatedata/data/cat/type/dataen_US/content/blah.xml (simple mistake).

So are you defining the DCR name ? Do you use IWDCRInfo.setDCRName ?

cmatsyk

If I comment out var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate(); it works fine. I can even put a value into the dcrModDt variable and it works great. Just seems weird.

nipper

If I comment out var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate(); it works fine. I can even put a value into the dcrModDt variable and it works great. Just seems weird.

Is the name of the DCR set before you do this command

try this before

var dcrName = IWDCRInfo.getDCRName();
alert (dcrName);

nipper

I also wonder if you have a chick/egg problem. You need the modification date, so you try to read it, but you will be reading the old mod date, not the new mod date (now). Or you need to do something like save, get mod date, update DCR field, save again.

You may be better off doing save, read mod date, run callserver to set EA with the mod time/date.

ISCBorisB

If I comment out var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate(); it works fine. I can even put a value into the dcrModDt variable and it works great. Just seems weird.

By chance, do you use this "...lifecycle/modify" value later on, perhaps to set DCR Name with Time stamp suffix or something similar?

cmatsyk

The purpose for all this is to post the mod date to the database so that I can display the mod date from the database. I am using DAS and would just like the mod date of the DCR to be posted with all the other info. A very basic use of this.

Adam Stoller

If I comment out var dcrModDt = IWDCRInfo.getModificationDate(); it works fine. I can even put a value into the dcrModDt variable and it works great. Just seems weird.

I also wonder if you have a chick/egg problem. You need the modification date, so you try to read it, but you will be reading the old mod date, not the new mod date (now). Or you need to do something like save, get mod date, update DCR field, save again.

You may be better off doing save, read mod date, run callserver to set EA with the mod time/date.

I think nipper's on the right track - if this is a new DCR - there is no moddate until it's been saved, so you cannot get the moddate before you save it. Since you're saving it anyway - you can probably just use the current date from a javascript Date object:


function setModDate () {
    var dcrModDt = Date();
    IWDatacapture.getItem("/policy/Metadata/lifecycle/modify").setValue(dcrModDt);
    return true;
}

It was indicated that was tried - but the code for trying it wasn't posted. Does the above work?

cmatsyk

I got this to work and I agree this is the best way. Thanks all...