Setting Extended Attributes

Hi There,

Is it possible to set the Extended Attributes while saving. I want to set the Description (one of the item in the DCT) to the extended attributes of the DCR being saved.

I know how to do this in a seperate script, but I do not know how to do this on GUI while saving a DCR.

Any clue?

Regards,

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ISCBorisB

Is it possible to set the Extended Attributes while saving. I want to set the Description (one of the item in the DCT) to the extended attributes of the DCR being saved

That's two different things!

If you want to set EA upon Save you may intercept onSaveDone Event and use IWDatacapture.callServer method to execute your
script to do what you need.

If you have an EA and want to propagate its value to the DCR item you can use similar scenario intercepting something like
onSaveValid - you'd have to do it before actual Save. callServer Script in this case will obtain EA Value and render back code
to re-populate Form's Item. In most use cases EAs are as good (and sometimes better) as DCR Items though, why would you want to
replicate this information?

Adam Stoller

Is it possible to set the Extended Attributes while saving. I want to set the Description (one of the item in the DCT) to the extended attributes of the DCR being saved

That's two different things!

Hunh? I think either you, or I, misread the above - I think only your first response is in context:

If you want to set EA upon Save you may intercept onSaveDone Event and use IWDatacapture.callServer method to execute your
script to do what you need.
[...]
In most use cases EAs are as good (and sometimes better) as DCR Items though, why would you want to
replicate this information?

The "usual" situation is where some piece of content (e.g.: description text) is incorporated in the generated output of the DCR (hence a field in the DCT) and intended to be pushed to a database along with other metadata (hence an EA) - though I think with the recent versions of DD it is possible to push both fields of the DCR and EAs within the same deployment definition - so the need to replicate the DCR field as an EA should be greatly reduced if not eliminated (and thus I agree, why replicate the information?)

ISCBorisB

I think you... misread the above

Quite possible. I've read "set the Description [...] to EA" as "Populate the Description from EA", it is perhaps the other way around.