Use webservices

Luc Pelletier

Hey,

I've been looking at a lot of topics here but I still have a lot of questions.

We have Livelink 9.7.1, I don't have any admin or root access to the server, just a normal access to the application. I'm doing most of our stuffs in VBA (either in Access 2003 or with the VbaOutlook.OTM project-file in Outlook 2003). I'm already able to export some XML datas from Livelink use the search API with URL parameters. In fact, I'm using the Fox plugin in Firefox to see what's going on when POSTing some requests in my browser to be able to reproduce the same in my code. I can for example copy a model by a simple call to this URL:

        postData = "func=ll&objAction=copyModel2&objID=" & modelId _
                    & "&nextURL=%2Flivelink%2Flivelink.exe" _
                    & "&DEST_NAME=" & folderName & "&DEST_ID=" & objId _
                    & "&COPY_Required=0&COPY_Edited=0&COPY_CacheID=0&CopyOption=0" _
                    & "&COPY_CatNames=Attributs+g%E9n%E9raux"

This works pretty well. However, in must topics here, I see things like this:

Node createInfo = new Node();

createInfo.ParentID = parentID;

createInfo.Type = "Alias";

createInfo.Name = "Shortcut";

createInfo.ReferenceInfo = new NodeReferenceInfo();

 

createInfo.ReferenceInfo.OriginalID = originalID;

 

Node shortcut = docManService.CreateNode(otAuth, createInfo);

 

Obviously, this portion of code doesn't seem to use any URL at all. No information on which language is involved here, whether it can be done in VBA and how. Is there any documentation about this?

 

What I really want is to create a mail folder. It can't be done in the Web interface, so I can't trap it with Fox. It's done with the Livelink Explorer add-in in Outlook, I can drag and drop a mail and all the metadatas are automatically extracted and added to Livelink with the mail content. I would like to do this in VBA (if possible). I tried to trap it with Wireshark with no success yet.

 

Does anyone can help me or refer me to some kind of documentation that could help me? I'm really stuck and I don't really know where to look.

 

Thank you.

Kyle_Swidrovich

Hi Luc,

 

It sounds like you’re trying to reverse engineer the various request handlers used in the web UI to try to treat it like an API.

I strongly recommend against that as the model could change between updates, breaking your implementation.

Please stick with a documented API, like Content Web Services for programmatic interaction with Content Server.

 

Content Web Services methods and properties are all documented here on the KC (see the documentation section of this particular CWS community) and some sample code is available.

 

In regards to your specific concern about creating a mail folder, you won’t be able to do it in 9.7.1 to my knowledge, unless R&D backported the GenericNode model that was added to CS 10.

@Jason: Any recommendations here for creating a mail folder SubType in 9.7.1 via WS?

 

Cheers,

Kyle