Updating Categories and Attributes

Dear All,

I am trying to standardise the process for updating Attributes as my development team are currently using several different processes :

1. Get the detail using DBGET, update the Frame and then jsut call DBPUT - see https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=3499041&objAction=ArticleView&viewType=1 for more info.

2. Same as 1 but populating the ValueChanges RecArray as well as directly editing the Frame

3. Using the LLNode NodeCategoriesGet and NodeCategoriesUpdate method as per https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=12900449&objAction=viewincontainer

Just looking for feedback and comments on the above and any other approaches ?

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HFCDev

My only comment is that I believe that DbPut only updates the LLAttrData table based on data pulled from LLAttrDataBLOB (abstracted from the .fData object using _DataToRecArray method). You need both updated.

I guess the obvious question would be what do you need doing that cannot be done by updating the .fData feature of your attrData and using your LLNode's NodeCategoriesUpdate() function.

-Hugh Ferguson, someone who's spent too many months in the attrData object.

Greg_Griffiths

Hugh,

At present just have a lot of differing methods so was looking for a best practice to standardise on

HFCDev

I would then advise on option #3. If you don't have to dive into the attrData object, it's best not to. This is especially important if your dev team consists of members with varying skill level and experience with Livelink.

-Hugh