How can I perform actions on a set of livereport results?

Maria_Cherkaoui_(mariacherkaoui_-_(deleted))

I'd like to either move or copy search results but ideally would like to create a collection first of the search results or work with them straight from the report. Does anyone have any idea how to do this? Please help!!

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Appu_Nair

Are you wanting to say download the search results to a csv or excel file and have people click on the links or are you wanting to download each file of the collection to hard disk and burn it to dvd or iso.The download to disk is an administrative option for collection and you would have to have admin privs to do it or talk to your admin.The other one instead of writing a LR take the same query and run it thru a sql based tool like TOAD or SQLmanagment studio both has provisions to do it.Collections also allow you to move/copy them to another collection I do not know if that is what you are aiming at but all it is doing is collecting the dataids of the search result under the collection object .I know that they allow you to do RM functions on a collection I would look at what that code was doingand make my own copy/move to target folders/containers.i have done things very similar using collection code.BTW if you have webereports you can create the copy /move using their arsenal having a LR or serach query as the data source.

Darren_Hodder

Hi,Just to add to Appu's post, if you have WebReports, the past couple of releases of WebReports has a tag called NODEACTION which lets you quickly perform actions on Livelink objects, such as copy, move, create and delete, add versions, etc. So for example, you can use a data source such as a saved search or a LiveReport (or even select a Livelink folder or container), and then for each item returned you can use this tag to perform a 'bulk' change on all these objects at once, without having to first download all the results to a CSV file.Hope that helps,Darren.

Maria_Cherkaoui_(mariacherkaoui_-_(deleted))

Hi,The actions I would like to have access to are things like copy, move, create and delete, and create collection. I need to apply some metadata changes to a large number of documents that I can only narrow down with a specific SQL query in a livereport and I'm not sure how I could group them after I have the list. We have Webreports version 4.0, is that new enough for that NODEACTION you were talking about Darren?Thanks for everyone's help so far.

Darren_Hodder

Hi again Maria,The NODEACTION subtag was first introduced in WebReports 4.0.2, but has been greatly enhanced in WebReports 4.1.1 and 5.0.0 to include many more actions - this is in addition to a very significant increase in other features since WebReports 4.0. You would need to upgrade to take benefit of NODEACTION, but like I said upgrading would also provide a great deal of new tags, data sources and other features.I'd be more than happy to provide you with more information on the latest version and its features or talk through your requirements more.Cheers,Darren.