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Message from Sean M Alderman via eLinkGreetings, I'm writing a new a customization that implements a new livelink object that acts like a folder, but is not a container for documents. The documents which the object will display are children of other folders somewhere else on the system. The basic idea is that I have a special category who's attributes are made of a bunch of Text Popups. The object's _BrowseContents script will generate the contents list by a database call that gets documents that have this special category set and who's attributes follow certain criteria (to be determined). Here's the problem...a couple of our Attributes have popup lists that are too long to be stored in the varchar(255) called validvals in DAttributes. Has anyone conquered a problem like this? Or can someone offer an idea to get around this limit? I really don't want to modify the entire Category/Attribute system.- Sean M. AldermanITRACK Systems AnalystPACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center(216) 433-2795
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Message from Alex Kowalenko via eLinkLivelink V9 solves this issue with unlimited length popup lists. For V8,Open Text Professional Services has a module that provides unlimited lengthtext popup lists that upgrade nicely to the native V9 structure. Pleasecontact me if you're interested.-alex------Original Message-----From: knowledge@opentext.com [mailto:knowledge@opentext.com]On Behalf OfeLink Discussion: Development DiscussionSent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:49To: eLink RecipientSubject: Attribute Text Popup Lists...Attribute Text Popup Lists...Posted by eLink on 05/03/2001 10:48 AMMessage from Sean M Alderman via eLinkGreetings, I'm writing a new a customization that implements a new livelinkobject that acts like a folder, but is not a container for documents. Thedocuments which the object will display are children of other folderssomewhere else on the system. The basic idea is that I have a specialcategory who's attributes are made of a bunch of Text Popups. The object's_BrowseContents script will generate the contents list by a database callthat gets documents that have this special category set and who's attributesfollow certain criteria (to be determined). Here's the problem...a couple of our Attributes have popup liststhat are too long to be stored in the varchar(255) called validvals inDAttributes. Has anyone conquered a problem like this? Or can someoneoffer an idea to get around this limit? I really don't want to modify theentire Category/Attribute system.- Sean M. AldermanITRACK Systems AnalystPACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center(216) 433-2795[To reply to this thread, use your normal e-mail reply function.]============================================================Discussion: Development Discussion
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Sean,We have the same problem with popups, we chose to alter the table and set validvals to varchar2(4000)...we felt it was more reasonable than buying another PS module.Regards,JWS
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Message from Sean M Alderman via eLinkWhat version of LL are you running? Did you run into any problems doing an upgrade from 8.1.5 to 9.0.x. I'm concerned that if I take such a step in LL815 that it will cause problems in future upgrade attempts.Any thoughts?At 08:14 AM 05/04/2001 -0400, you (eLink Discussion: Development Discussion) wrote:>re - Attribute Text Popup Lists... >Posted by ConocoAdmin on 05/04/2001 08:09 AM>>Sean,>>We have the same problem with popups, we chose to alter the table and set validvals to varchar2(4000)...we felt it was more reasonable than buying another PS module.>>Regards,>JWS >>[To reply to this thread, use your normal e-mail reply function.]>>============================================================>>Topic: Attribute Text Popup Lists...>
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John W. Simon, Jr.
Sean,We are running 815 with SP1.Good question about conversion. We are trying to find out the answer to it right now. We just started looking at conversion and have run it a couple of times on our test system. We ended up with a bunch of errors related to the valid values in a popup. Some of the errors we can explain, some not. I will let you know what we find out.Regards,JWS
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A module was demonstrated at LiveLinkUp! last year that showed how to make a custom attribute that collected the validation values for an attribute at runtime (the valid values would be read from a table when the HTML page is created).Has anyone carried this a step further to create dependencies between attributes where the value of attribute "A" would control the valid values in attribute "B"?For example, the user might select a value in an attribute called "Product Type" that would then populate the value list for an attribute called "Product Name" (the keep the dependent attribute list smaller and enforce the relationship between the two values).
