Help Needed : Calling Tagger UI on Save

Hi All,
We have a requirement where on save of every DCT's , tagger UI should come, wherein user should fill in values and then saves the DCR.
I am trying with IWDatacapture.callServer calling iwmetadata.cgi in javascript, but its not working.

Can you help me how i can achive above functionality...
Your help is greatly appreciated in this and am looking forward for early replies.

Thanks Again..

Regards:
Veera K

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cute_guy

using callserver you will be able to pass values to the cgi file but cannot display a cgi file to the user.

So instead of callserver have a callout button, when user clicks on the button the cgi file given in the callout tags will be displayed to the user..

ISCBorisB

Hi All,
We have a requirement where on save of every DCT's , tagger UI should come, wherein user should fill in values and then saves the DCR.
I am trying with IWDatacapture.callServer calling iwmetadata.cgi in javascript, but its not working.

Can you help me how i can achive above functionality...
Your help is greatly appreciated in this and am looking forward for early replies.

Thanks Again..

Regards:
Veera K

Use window.open(...) instead of IWDatacapture.callServer

Vivek552

Thanks for the inputs.. We are going with window.open() now.
But now, we are facing other issue regarding metadata datacapture.cfg.

The flow is like,
1) Upon saving a DCR, i should get Tagger UI, which i am doing with window.open().
2) The Tagger UI is based on datacapture.cfg, in iwhome/local/config.
We have certain hidden fields in that like ContentID, metadataID and vpath of DCR, which we need to prepopulate by running perl script(It will get values from database).

The problem is, metadatacapture.dtd is not supporting javascript, and hence we can't use callServer.

Is there any way, where we can get the vpath of DCR to metadata datacapture.cfg and execute scripts to populate certain fields (hidden).

Thanks for the help as usual..
Looking forward for the suggetions...

Regards:
Veera K

Adam Stoller

Thanks for the inputs.. We are going with window.open() now.
But now, we are facing other issue regarding metadata datacapture.cfg.

The flow is like,
1) Upon saving a DCR, i should get Tagger UI, which i am doing with window.open().
2) The Tagger UI is based on datacapture.cfg, in iwhome/local/config.
We have certain hidden fields in that like ContentID, metadataID and vpath of DCR, which we need to prepopulate by running perl script(It will get values from database).

The problem is, metadatacapture.dtd is not supporting javascript, and hence we can't use callServer.

Is there any way, where we can get the vpath of DCR to metadata datacapture.cfg and execute scripts to populate certain fields (hidden).

Thanks for the help as usual..
Looking forward for the suggetions...

Regards:
Veera K

Create a wrapper CGI script for the metadata CGI. The wrapper script can take care of pre-populating metadata values (via iwextattr) before re-directing to the actual metadata CGI.

I believe 6.7.1 SP1 supports FormAPI in the metadata capture DTD - but I haven't worked on that aspect of 671SP1 .... yet.