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Extract attribute categories using a live report

Sovan_Banerjee

IS there a easy way to extract alll the objects (Categories) of the Categories volume either in a text or HTML format.What I am looking for is for the following information Category name , attribute name, attribute sequence, datatype and the length of the attribute type.

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Appu_Nair

apparently I guess you do not like this request handler ?func=attributes.dump.It is a html page of all that info.You need sysadmin privs. Also if the info is very huge the page may time out before it is given out.Similar info exists in cateregionmap as well

Benjamin Shapiro

Message from Ben Shapiro via eLink The attributes.dump function is a really good one, and would get Sovan almost everything he asked for except for the length. It's also the easiest. Beyond that, OOTB you're looking at something like an XMLExport with some parsing (base64-decoding and other fun stuff). There may be a third-party product that shows this nice and cleanly... Cheers, Ben

Appu_Nair

@Ben did not know Length was missing,Length is not vailable atleast in the cat definition fo rsome types like attrtable.Did not spend a whole time at this.I copied the attributes.dump code and added 1 line in the request handler and perhaps two lines in the weblingo.The rest is all OT codehttps://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll/showwebattributeinfo_8_0_1.zip?func=doc.Fetch&nodeid=18643504&docTitle=showwebattributeinfo_8_0_1.zipUsual due diligence on freebie modules applythe new RH is invoked like thishttp://localhost/livelink/livelink.exe?func=showwebattributeinfo.dump

Sunitha_Iyer

Hi,

The link to showwebattr is really great. I am new to livelink and I am looking for a way to get all the details related to Category. attr dump only shows Attr name and type, I am looking for other informaton like whether it is mandatory or not, searchable, default value assigned to it, etc

What evere information is stored while creating category I need to retrive it, is there any wya I can do it?

Appu_Nair

Perhaps you can tell the community if after getting the definition what your next step would be?

I see no value when you get a file or a GUI well formatted screen shot of an existing category definition

What you can get to see when you open a category definition in a filestore a simple e.g

A<1,?,'Children'={A<1,?,'DisplayName'='AchiveDate','FixedRows'=true,'ID'=2,'MaxRows'=1,'Name'='ArchiveDate','NumRows'=1,'Required'=false,'Search'=true,'TimeField'=false,'Type'=-7>,A<1,?,'DisplayName'='Archived?','FixedRows'=true,'ID'=3,'MaxRows'=1,'Name'='Archived','NumRows'=1,'Search'=false,'Type'=5>},'DisplayName'='Archived','FixedRows'=true,'ID'=1,'MaxRows'=1,'Name'='Archived','NextID'=4,'NumRows'=1,'Required'=false,'Type'=-18,'ValueTemplate'=A<1,?,'ID'=1,'Values'={A<1,?,2=A<1,?,'ID'=2,'Values'={?}>,3=A<1,?,'ID'=3,'Values'={false}>>}>>

The same e.g when I look in the GUI looks like this?(incidentally I grabbed a OT category and decoded the bease64 like Ben suggested)

Having gotten the definition if I now wanted to add anything more I would use the GUI to do this programmatically using OT provided constructs(let me know if you want to see a java lapi sample)

I cannot really understand/infer anything from that definition unless I had the oscript virtual machine(OVM) running inside me J

So if you want to create categories/update manipulate them nothing is done by taking raw files out and manipulating it but by programmatic methods.

Hope you understand the task in hand and how it can be put to good use within livelink.

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Posted by sunitha_iyer@infosys.com (Iyer, Sunitha Ramesh) On 11/03/2011 02:35 PM

Hi,

What evere information is stored while creating category I need to retrive it, is there any wya I can do it?

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Sunitha_Iyer

Thanks for your quick reply. I wanted to know the category definition to understand the Livelink system. The livelink system is ready and running. I wanted to analyze it. I am retrieving document count, folder count, etc information by query but category information in not retrievable using query.

I wanted to understand how many categories are there in the system and what all values are set for them, along with that other fields like required, searchable, locked, max value, default value etc. All the values which we define during creating category.

So, now can you provide more specific help on this?You said in filestore the defination will be same as GUI. How to retive that using filestore?I am not clear about file store,what is this filestrore? Where that information will be stored? ANy specific location in server, or need to get using query or somethign else?IF i can get that defination which is same as GUI would solve my lot of trouble.

Thanks again for your support and quick response.

Sunitha_Iyer

Can any one please help me to retrive category information using segment.blob?

I have tried a lot but no luck

Colin_Schmidt

Here's one I wrote that does not pull certain information because it's not an easy place to get to and not worth the effort (on my part):

Oracle 10g. You set the LR up to browse to a location and it'll return the Categories and values.

Cats-n-Atts.txt