datacapture.cfg won't put a value in the text box

mpgxsvcd

I am trying to get the teamsite built in Metadata capture function to work with the “read from a flat file” example_datacapture_callout.ipl script. I looked through the example_datacapture_callout.ipl code and I could not find out how this script transfers the selected value back to the text box on the original form. I commented out the select statements and removed the comments from the callout but I can not get the callout to write the value of my selection to the textbox. Has anyone else been able to get this cgi callout to work properly? Here is that section of the datacapture.cfg file that I am using.

<item name="Taxonomy Terms">
<!-- <database data-type="VARCHAR(40)" />
To use the example callout,
1. Comment out this select element.
2. Uncomment the text element.

<select>
<option label="Internet - Financial" value="financial_internet" />
<option label="Internet - Manufacturing" value="manufacturing_internet" />
<option label="Internet - Services" value="services_internet" />
<option label="Extranet - Tier 1" value="tier_1_extranet" />
<option label="Extranet - Tier 2" value="tier_2_extranet" />
<option label="Extranet - Tier 3" value="tier_3_extranet" />
</select>
-->
<text>
<callout type="cgi"
label="Taxonomy"
url="/iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/ example_datacapture_callout.ipl/metadata-category-options.txt" />
</text>
</item>

james1

It would be helpful if, within your problem statement, you indicated the version of TeamSite that you are using.

The data is sent from the callout window to the main window via JavaScript in the callout window. You can see that JavaScript in the print_header() subroutine of example_datacapture_callout.ipl.

-- James