Change Values in DCR from TPL

Guys

This problem may be disscussed many times earlier but I cannot find anything for it so here it is again.

What is the best way to update values in DCR from TPL? The use case is I add files in DCT and copy them to different folder through my TPL and then attach to the workflow and deploy them, Now I don't want to copy and deploy these files unless users changes them again in the DCR.

To achieve this only option I can think is to change the path of the files in the dcr and in my copy function i check if templatedata is not present in filepath then just ignore.

What are your suggestions.

Thanks in advance

Tanuj

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nipper

Well you *can* open regex and save the DCR. Whether that is really what you want to do I am uncertain.

If I were you I would open the current DCR, open the equivalent DCR in Staging and compare the appropriate fields, if one has changed do what you need to do.

Tanuj

Ok so that was my understanding too that I open the DCR as XML make changes and save it back.

But I thought maybe teamsite has some built in function in some module which can do openning and saving the dcr implicitly and you just set the value.

Thanks for your help

Tanuj

nipper

there are, you can use the Perl modules that are provided (if you use XML style DCRs) to change the value, however I find regex is much faster and easier to use.

That being said, I still think this is the wrong approach.