Empty placeholder objects

We have Livelink 9.5 with the WebEdit feature for starting new Office documents from the browser. When doing this, until a user has closed down the new document and selected 'Save changes to livelink', the new item exists as an empty placeholder, albeit with its own object ID.Sometimes, if, say, Word crashes, the user is left with the placeholder and we want to find a way of searching for them, probably using LiveReports. We had two ideas so far:- look for all documents with 0 bytes - we need version 4.0 of WebReports for this which we are looking to get- look for all documents by file type and filter out all .doc, .xls etc - so far unsuccessful as placeholders don't seem to come up in LiveReport results at all, until they become a proper document with a MIME type.So, does anyone know of any other way to find these items? As said, we are going for version 4.0 of WebReports but, given the apparent 'invisibility' of placeholders to LiveReports, will this help?ThanksGiulio RomanoScottish Funding Council

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You would need to create a Live Report that looks for documents that have no versions. There are several ways to get this, but this should work.

select * from dtree where subtype = 144 and versionnum= 0

You can run this from a Live Report.

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Empty placeholder objects

Posted by gromano (Romano, Giulio) on 03/02/2007 06:46 AM

We have Livelink 9.5 with the WebEdit feature for starting new Office documents from the browser. When doing this, until a user has closed down the new document and selected 'Save changes to livelink', the new item exists as an empty placeholder, albeit with its own object ID.

Sometimes, if, say, Word crashes, the user is left with the placeholder and we want to find a way of searching for them, probably using LiveReports. We had two ideas so far:

- look for all documents with 0 bytes - we need version 4.0 of WebReports for this which we are looking to get

- look for all documents by file type and filter out all .doc, .xls etc - so far unsuccessful as placeholders don't seem to come up in LiveReport results at all, until they become a proper document with a MIME type.

So, does anyone know of any other way to find these items? As said, we are going for version 4.0 of WebReports but, given the apparent 'invisibility' of placeholders to LiveReports, will this help?

Thanks

Giulio Romano
Scottish Funding Council

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