calling a pre-filled DCT

Hi,
I have a requirement of calling an pre-filled DCT on selection of a dropdown value in another DCT. Is this possible?

Thanks.

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Adam Stoller

Hi,
I have a requirement of calling an pre-filled DCT on selection of a dropdown value in another DCT. Is this possible?

Thanks.

Probably - pretty much anything is possible (though some things are far less probable).

What do you mean by "calling pre-filled DCT"?

Meena25

Sorry. Its pre-filled dcr.

In a DCR I have a dropdown, on selection of any value in the dropdown the fields of another dcr should be loaded to this current dcr.

kaalraa

Sorry. Its pre-filled dcr.

In a DCR I have a dropdown, on selection of any value in the dropdown the fields of another dcr should be loaded to this current dcr.

What i can suggest is to use a Callout and select as what DCR you want to embed. Once thats done, store only the path of the embedded DCR in the parent DCR.

Here your generation logic should be a custom script.

HTH

Adam Stoller

What i can suggest is to use a Callout and select as what DCR you want to embed. Once thats done, store only the path of the embedded DCR in the parent DCR.

Here your generation logic should be a custom script.

HTH

I think I agree with the above - but would word it slightly differently:

Use either a basic browser or a callout element within the [enclosing] DCT to find and reference another DCR - storing only the path of the referenced DCR in the referencing DCT/DCR.

Then in your PT - if you find a reference to another DCR within the DCR you are processing - you can load the referenced DCR and extract the desired values then rather than doing so during the Edit DCT/DCR stage.

If the referenced DCR is within the same branch / workarea as the referencing DCR - the browser element should suffice and the result would be an area-relative path to the selected DCR.

If the referenced DCR is not within the same branch / workarea as the referencing DCR the callout element will probably be needed and you will have to provide for cross-branch browsing functionality and end up using a complete vpath or file system path for the selected DCR.

There are a number of examples in the forums and documentation for PTs about how to load secondary DCRs during the PT processing stage - I suggest doing the research to find that information and playing with it to figure out how to do what you actually want.