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Regenerating all the files in a workarea

Linio

Hi!

I'm still fresh on Interwoven Teamsite, and I'm still trying to figure out some stuff.

I'm working on developments made by a team, and I have to modify some of them according to business needs.

I have a data capture template which generates DCR related with other DCR from the workarea (the user have the possibility in the data capture to chose a list of DCR to add and when generating a "list" of the DCR selected is made). It is actually working quite fine, but, since the content is in HTML, when one of the DCR is modified, the list previously generated contains incorrect data (I don't know if i'm very clear...).

What I would like to do is modify the behaviour of the save button so that I can regenerate all the files on my workarea when I'm modifying a DCR, this way, each DCR already pointing on this file would be regenerated with the good data.

I guess i need a fonction to regenerate the files, and another one to list the files in my templatedata/data directory, but i know none of those. Do you know where I can find documentation on this, or point me to the functions to use.

Thanks

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nipper

While I disagree with you approach I will certainly help with an answer.

You *should* try to use server side includes for items like top navigation, footer, etc and then if you change it, you do not need a full site regen.

You did not specify your OS, but on Unix you can run something like this:

find /path/to/WORKAREA -name "*.html* -exec iwregen {} \;

That is a brute force way of doing it.

It will also regenerate everything on the branch.

On DOS you could write a perl script to do the same.

You can also use the TS GUI, and search to search for all files with the appropriate extended attributes (signifying that it was build with templates) and select all and click regen

HTH

Andy

Linio

While I disagree with you approach I will certainly help with an answer.

You *should* try to use server side includes for items like top navigation, footer, etc and then if you change it, you do not need a full site regen.

Actually as I mentioned, I did not have the full autonomy on this, i'm taking back a project already made, and I doubt my clients will be very fond of restarting all the project again. Basically what happens also is that the files are published on a machine with no dynamic possibilities (no ASP / PHP / etc...) so I'm quite limited to what I can do (Plus i'm not really including all the files but only taking some form entries to put them on my file...)

Since I'm on windows machine i'll try to sort things out with what you told me, and try and launch a perl script to do what i need.

Many thanks.

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Linio

Actually i don't think what i need is a workflow.
I need the files to be regenerated when i click on the save button.

I need a script directly on the template, but since this seems to be javascript i don't see how i can execute any perl or other executable.

Maybe i'm misleading, but i don't see how i can regenerate files directly when I save. Is is even possible?

ISCBorisB

...but i don't see how i can regenerate files directly when I save. Is is even possible?

Absolutely. Take a look at FormAPI IWDatacapture.callServer Method, DevNET has few threads discussing it, including onSave, etc...

That said, Project constraints or not I would re-read Nipper's remarks couple more times if I were you.
An idea that you have to regenerate the whole site after single DCR save seems questionable - to put it very mildly

Linio

I really really agree with you, don't think i knew that even before i began to wonder how to change my things.
But my client is very rigid on his demands.
I wouldn't have made this project this way, but to be honest, my research are mostly to ensure a non-practical solution to explain to my client that there is no easy way to ensure an automatic organization of this behaviour and make him consider another way to do it, or let the user regenerates what he needs by hand.

Anyway we'll see. Thanks for the tip on the callout i'll try to search on this direction although i don't think i can have access to the server apart from the teamsite front-end.

nipper

I really really agree with you, don't think i knew that even before i began to wonder how to change my things.
But my client is very rigid on his demands.
I wouldn't have made this project this way, but to be honest, my research are mostly to ensure a non-practical solution to explain to my client that there is no easy way to ensure an automatic organization of this behaviour and make him consider another way to do it, or let the user regenerates what he needs by hand.

Anyway we'll see. Thanks for the tip on the callout i'll try to search on this direction although i don't think i can have access to the server apart from the teamsite front-end.

This is the type of project I get up and walk away from. The fact that they will not even listen to a better solution is preposterous.

The very best way to do this is set up a server side include. It does not require a project rewrite. I could change the TPL to use SSI and configure the webserver for SSI access in less time than it will take you to write this solution.

ISCBorisB

my research are mostly to ensure a non-practical solution to explain to my client that...

A pity you did not explain that before - I would have ignored the post and not waste even few minutes to reply

nipper

A pity you did not explain that before - I would have ignored the post and not waste even few minutes to reply

I did not even notice that comment. Spoken like a true hourly employee.

Linio

My hands are tied, and I'm sorry if i'm not trying to be a hero here...
I cannot walk away from any project, so I have to deal with all the demands that comes to me the best I can if i don't want to worsen my everyday life.
I'm a simple consultant, i do not have the weight to ask for the configuration of the machine to be modified to accept dynamic content with inclusion, so I have to try and find other solutions, and still ensure a good behaviour of everything.

The idea here is to understand the process and see how it works, the pros & the cons, there is no wasted time here (sorry if you feel this way, but for me it's not the case), every post has been very helpful to me to understand better the whole teamsite process.

Like we would say : Merci beaucoup !

Adam Stoller

My hands are tied, and I'm sorry if i'm not trying to be a hero here...
I cannot walk away from any project, so I have to deal with all the demands that comes to me the best I can if i don't want to worsen my everyday life.
I'm a simple consultant, i do not have the weight to ask for the configuration of the machine to be modified to accept dynamic content with inclusion, so I have to try and find other solutions, and still ensure a good behaviour of everything.

The idea here is to understand the process and see how it works, the pros & the cons, there is no wasted time here (sorry if you feel this way, but for me it's not the case), every post has been very helpful to me to understand better the whole teamsite process.

Like we would say : Merci beaucoup !

Linio

And that's where i'm saying my request was quite atypic and this is for example the last point :

If they won't provide you access to the server - you should make it clear to them that it may take you ten times the amount of time to implement anything - regardless of whether it's based on the existing implementation or an improved one

Even with such arguments, they would not consider it, since security come first.

Anyway, i had the meeting, and there was a misunderstanding, so the solution we have now is correct.

But now i have other issues, which does not belong in this post Smiley Happy

Again many thanks.