Adding metadata to Document

Hi,

Right now storing documents into live link is working fine, but i have some extra metadata i like to add to my document so i will be able to search for the document when needed. See below my sample code to test this: Metadata CreateMetadata()Metadata metadata = new Metadata();return metadata;private

{

attribute.DisplayName =

attribute.Type =

attribute.Key =

attribute.Values =

value.Description =

value.Key =

values[0] = value;

attribute.Values = values;

attributeGroups[0] = attribute;

}

AttributeGroup[] CreateAttributeGroup()AttributeGroup[] attributeGroups = new AttributeGroup[1];AttributeGroup attribute = new AttributeGroup();"CaseID";"String";"CaseID";new DataValue[1];DataValue[] values = new DataValue[1];DataValue value = new DataValue();"XXXXX-XXXXX";"CaseId";return attributeGroups;

I add the metadata to my request and then i receive the following error:

{"Unknown AttributeGroup types {'String'}."}

Can anyone tell what kind of type i have to fill in? or give me an example?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Dennis

private

{

metadata.AttributeGroups = CreateAttributeGroup();

}

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sgrasley

Hi, Dennis (or Sandra).

I'd recommend using the DocumentManagement service's getCategoryTemplate method to populate the AttributeGroup object for you, then set the values of the attributes you want.

thanks,

Scott

Sandra_Donk

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your reply. In my development environment i can add Categories, but i am not able to assign them to a folder. When i execute GetCategoryTemplate(# of the category) i receive an unkown error. There is probably something wrong with my Livelink environment. I will keep you posted when this is fixed and able to program against a working environment .

Regards,

Dennis

sgrasley

Hi, Dennis.

It might be worth looking at the Livelink thread logs to see if there is any information about the error there.

Scott

Sandra_Donk

Hi Scott,

Everything works right now. The categories i created weren't valid. Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Dennis

vrao@opentext.com

Dennis,

I am able to create document but not able to assign category to that document, could you please help me with sample code to assign category to document?

Thanks in Adv

Vivek

sgrasley

Hi, Vivek.

Have you tried calling getCategoryTemplate to populate the AttributeGroup array for the Metadata parameter? Are you getting an exception?

Scott

vrao@opentext.com

Scott,

AttributeGroup attributeGroup = documentManagement.getCategoryTemplate(28097);

  attributeGroup.setDisplayName("Test Category");
  attributeGroup.setKey("Name");
  attributeGroup.setType("Name");

  // store the meta-data on the server for the upload

Node node = documentManagement.getNodeByName(2000, ServiceDAO.getFolderName());
contextID = documentManagement.createDocumentContext(node.getID(),inFile.getName(), inFile.getName(), false, metadata);

In above code, i am able to get Category by getCategoryTemplate. But how I can assign this category to new created document?

Thanks

V Rao

sgrasley

Hi, Vivek.

You should be able to assign your attributeGroup to the metadata object that you pass into createDocumentContext():

metadata.getAttributeGroups().add( attributeGroup );

That should apply the category to the document you've created.

Scott

vrao@opentext.com

Thanks, it working fine now.

Vivek

Igor_Werner

Quoted vrao on 2009/08/28 15:14:

attributeGroup.setDisplayName("Test Category");

attributeGroup.setKey("Name");
attributeGroup.setType("Name");

What API are you using? I am using the Visual Studio generated classes and do not see any function lie setDisplayName, setKey or setType.

Thanks,

Igor

sgrasley

The quoted excerpt is for Java. For C# it would be attributeGroup.DisplayName = "Test Category";

Thanks,

Scott

Igor_Werner

Thanks Scott. I got it already. Is there a samples library containing samples to the whole API? Or is there documentation about the API and I am not talking about class reference or method signature documentation.

With Regards,

Igor

sgrasley

Hi, Igor.

At the moment the only documentation and samples are available via OTDN. Of course, please feel free to post any questions here.

Thanks,

Scott

Igor_Werner

Thank you Scott for the reply.

I hope you guys will provide more APIdocumentation. Primary it will help developers that have to work with yourproduct and secondary it will improve image of you product.

You sure understand how frustrating it canbe if most of the time instead of developing you have to search fordocumentation.

Also I wonder why you developed API likethis: “searchResponse.Results.Item[0].N[0].S[4];”

What are the array “N” and “S” actually? Whyare they called so?

Best regards,

Igor

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Posted by sgrasley (Grasley, Scott) On 2009/09/08 09:25

Hi, Igor.

At the moment the only documentation and samples are available via OTDN. Of course, please feel free to post any questions here.

Thanks,

Scott

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sgrasley

Hi, Igor.

SearchService was architected in such a way as to be able to take advantage of future search functionality, which is why there are the Nodes, Edges, etc. for the search results. As for the terseness of the property names I can't comment as I didn't originally work on that service.

Thanks,

Scott

Dave_Ross

Hi Scott or somebody at opentext,

Would it be possible to post a full example of C# code to set the category attributes for a document in a folder with default categories applied?

Dave R

Kobi_Kohavi

Hi Scott,

i'm trying to do the same thing,upload a new document into a folder with a category assign to that has 2 attributes, and for some rezone i always get the same error message:

Error: The content type text/html of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (multipart/related; type="application/xop+xml"). If using a custom encoder, be sure that the IsContentTypeSupported method is implemented properly. The first 1024 bytes of the response were: '

this is my code:

               Metadata docMetadata = new Metadata();
                AttributeGroup[] attributeGroups1 = new AttributeGroup[1];
                DataValue[] attrItems = new DataValue[2];
                attrItems[0] = new DataValue();
                attrItems[1] = new DataValue();
                attributeGroups1[0] = new AttributeGroup();
                attrItems[0].Description = "a1";
                attrItems[1].Description = "a2";
                attributeGroups1[0].Values = attrItems;
                attributeGroups1[0].DisplayName="Test Category";
                attributeGroups1[0].Key = "Test Name";
                attributeGroups1[0].Type = "Test Name";
                docMetadata.AttributeGroups = attributeGroups1;
                #endregion
                //docMetadata.AttributeGroups.SetValue(attributeGroups1[0], 0);
                docContext = dm.CreateDocumentContext(dmOTAuth, parentID, name, comment, advancedVersionControl, docMetadata);

can you please advise in how to solve this issue?

Kyle_Swidrovich

Quoted Kobi Kochavi (kobi_k@malam.com) on 2011/07/23 01:38:

Hi Scott,

i'm trying to do the same thing,upload a new document into a folder with a category assign to that has 2 attributes, and for some rezone i always get the same error message:

this is my code:

can you please advise in how to solve this issue?

The response content type of "text/html" means that you're getting an error page back instead of the expected SOAP XML response.

It may be beneficial to see the actual response from the server.
Checking the Content Server-side thread logs could be helpful as well, provided you have wantLAPILogs=TRUE enabled in the [options] section of the Content Server instance's /config/opentext.ini file.

I unfortunately don't have a sample ready of applying a category to an object and populating its attributes. However, I would suggest that instead of you trying to manually construct the parts of the category, it is probably more reliable and easier to obtain the category definition using the Category* calls of the DocumentManagement service, then manipulate the attributes in the definition, then apply it to a node.

Regards,
Kyle