Creating a Physical Item?

Alison_Bilton

Does anyone have a code example, or can point me at some documentation, on how to create physical objects via CS10 web services?

I'm having problems working out how to specify a Physical Item Type as part of the creation process.

I've tried using GetNodeTemplate() passing "PhysicalItem" followed by CreateNode() but it throws the following error:

DocumentManagement.CreateNode() failed on the Livelink Server. No results were returned. Check the Livelink Server thread logs. """"

The thread log says "An unknown feature was specified" and generates a trace file (attached).  I suspect the problem is that I haven't specified a Physical Item Type.

AlexGerasimov

Kind of this (example in C#, creates a physical objects with some Physiscal Properties defined for this type):

private void btCreatePO_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)

{

if ( String .IsNullOrEmpty(edCPDocName.Text))

{

MessageBox .Show( "Please enter the name of the document" );

return ;

}

if ( String .IsNullOrEmpty(cbCPTypes.Text))

{

MessageBox .Show( "Please select the PO Type" );

return ;

}

fullAuthUrl = String .Format( "{0}/{1}/Authentication.svc" , edBaseURL.Text, edCoreAppName.Text);

fullPOUrl = String .Format( "{0}/{1}/PhysicalObjects.svc" , edBaseURL.Text, edPOAppName.Text);

fullDMUrl = String .Format( "{0}/{1}/DocumentManagement.svc" , edBaseURL.Text, edCoreAppName.Text);

try

{

this .Cursor = Cursors .WaitCursor;

// This service will be used to authenticate a user

RecManAPIClient. Authentication authService = new Authentication (fullAuthUrl);

authService.Timeout = TIMEOUT;

// This class will contain the authentication token used by services

RecManAPIClient. OTAuthentication otAuth = new OTAuthentication ();

// authenticate

otAuth.AuthenticationToken = authService.AuthenticateUser( "user" , "password" );

authService.OTAuthenticationValue = otAuth;

// Initialize a proxy for the Document Management service

DocumentManagement docManagement = new DocumentManagement (fullDMUrl);

docManagement.OTAuthenticationValue = otAuth;

 

// Initialize a proxy for the Physical Objects service

RecManAPIClient. PhysicalObjects poService = new PhysicalObjects (fullPOUrl);

poService.OTAuthenticationValue = otAuth;

// Create Physical Objects

 

Node poNode = new Node ();

AttributeGroup [] theAttributeGroups = new AttributeGroup [1];

AttributeGroup theAttributeGroup = new AttributeGroup ();

 

theAttributeGroup.Key = "POCreateInfo" ;

theAttributeGroup.Type = "POCreateInfo" ;

// Defined a type of the PO

IntegerValue intValue = new IntegerValue ();

intValue.Key = "selectedMedia" ;

String curType = cbCPTypes.Text.Substring(0, 4);

intValue.Values = new int ?[] { Int32 .Parse(curType) };

StringValue strValue = new StringValue ();

strValue.Key = "poLocation" ;

strValue.Values = new string [] { "OTT" };

StringValue boxValue = new StringValue ();

boxValue.Key = "boxID" ;

boxValue.Values = new string [] { "569433" };

if (curType.Equals( "71933" ))

{

StringValue colorValue = new StringValue ();

colorValue.Key = "mtField_Colour" ;

colorValue.Values = new string [] { "Red" };

StringValue weightValue = new StringValue ();

weightValue.Key = "mtField_Weight" ;

weightValue.Values = new string [] { "14" };

StringValue cccValue = new StringValue ();

cccValue.Key = "mtField_ccc" ;

cccValue.Values = new string [] { "1" };

theAttributeGroup.Values = new DataValue [] { intValue, strValue, colorValue, weightValue, cccValue };

}

else

{

theAttributeGroup.Values = new DataValue [] { intValue, strValue, boxValue };

}

theAttributeGroups[0] = theAttributeGroup;

poNode.Metadata = new Metadata ();

poNode.Metadata.AttributeGroups = theAttributeGroups;

 

poNode.Type = "PhysicalItem" ;

poNode.ParentID = Int32 .Parse(edFolderID.Text);

poNode.Name = edCPDocName.Text;

poNode.Comment = "Trying to create " + edCPDocName.Text;

poNode.DisplayType = "PhysicalItem" ;

docManagement.CreateNode(poNode);

MessageBox .Show( "Physical Objects are created." );

}

catch ( Exception ex)

{

MessageBox .Show(ex.Message, "Error Message" );

}

finally

{

this .Cursor = Cursors .Default;

}

}