Copy Category

I am having a little bit of trouble trying to copy a category from one folder to another. I am creating a folder within another folder via OScript and essentially am trying to inherit the category and attribute values and from the original (parent) folder. DAPI.CopyCategory does not seem to work. I attached a snippet of my code. Any help is appreciated.

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Appu_Nair

You probably are missing the use of the lliapi:attrdata frame object which from 9.0 onwards are resposnible for cat/att manipulation.You need to get the node attributes of src and then update it on the dest using the attrdata object.Heres a snippet form my code.This csript was written by OT and I just stole it for my use.This is for aversionable object but I think it should suffice for most dapi subtypes********Function Assoc CopyVersion( \ Object prgCtx, \ DAPINODE srcNode, \ DAPINODE dstNode ,\ Integer copyFlags) Assoc retVal Dynamic status DAPIVERSION srcVersion = DAPI.GetVersion( srcNode, DAPI.VERSION_GET_CURRENT ) //DAPIVERSION dstVersion = DAPI.AllocVersion( CAPI.Parent( dstNode ) ) DAPIVERSION dstVersion = DAPI.AllocVersion(prgCtx.fDSession.fSession ) //DAPIVERSION dstVersion = DAPI.GetVersion( dstNode, DAPI.VERSION_GET_CURRENT ) Object wSession = prgCtx.WSession() retVal.OK = True if ( !IsError( srcVersion ) ) if ( IsError( dstVersion ) ) retVal.OK = False retVal.ApiError = dstVersion retVal.ErrMsg = Str.Format( [WFMain_ErrMsg.CouldNotAllocateANewVersionForObject1], dstNode.pName ) end else retVal.OK = False retVal.ApiError = srcVersion retVal.ErrMsg = Str.Format( [WFMain_ErrMsg.CouldNotGetVersionForObject1], srcNode.pName ) end if ( retVal.OK ) status = DAPI.CopyVersion( srcVersion, dstNode, dstVersion,DAPI.VCOPY_ADDVER,srcVersion.pProviderName) if ( IsError( status ) ) retVal.OK = False retVal.ApiError = status retVal.ErrMsg = Str.Format( [WFMain_ErrMsg.ErrorCopyingVersionToObject1], dstNode.pName ) end end //we copied the version but we lost the attributes echo(dstNode.pVersionNum)Dynamic parentAttr = $LLIAPI.AttrData.New( prgCtx, dstNode.pID, dstNode.pVersionNum - 1)parentAttr.DBGet()Dynamic newAttr = $LLIAPI.AttrData.New( prgCtx, dstNode.pID, dstNode.pVersionNum )newAttr.DBGet()newAttr.fData = parentAttr.fDatanewAttr.fDefinitions = parentAttr.fDefinitionsDynamic llnode = $LLIAPI.LLNodeSubsystem.GetItem( dstNode.pSubtype )status = llnode.NodeCategoriesUpdate( dstNode, newAttr ) return( retVal )end********************in any case reasearch the LLIAPI:AttrData object that should really help you.

Matt_Miranda

Appu,Thank you for the help. I was able to look at the code that you posted and was able to "steal" a few lines of it and make it work for me.Matt

HFCDev

I know this is an old post, but I too found it useful. I was trying to do a copy using llNode.NodeCategoryGet() then throwing the attrData into llNode.NodeCategoryUpdate(). The key is you have to build a new attr data object, and copy the .fData across between the two.

-Hugh