Upload documents with attributes - C# / CWS

Hi,

Writing my first pieces of code against CWS and have sucessfully created an c# application that uploads documents.

My struggle is how to set attributes on these documents. I have a total of 6 attributes, and from what I've Googled, I'll need to start off with a Category Template (which I presume I'll fetch from the Parent Node). All examples I can find refer to a hard coded CategoriId, surely this cannot be necessary? If that is necessary, where can I find this CategoryId?

Any examples out there?

Best regards

Geir

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André_Roy

Hello Geir,

There is a great example of uploading a document and setting category/attribute values here (along with other examples):
https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=17990651&objAction=browse&viewType=1

Regards,

André Roy
Principal Technical Analyst | Customer Support

Quoted Geir Berglind on 2014-01-28 08:48:

Hi,

Writing my first pieces of code against CWS and have sucessfully created an c# application that uploads documents.

Any examples out there?

Best regards

Geir

Geir Berglind

Hi,

I've already gone through those examples. Let me rephrase the question. As I've understood it, I will need a Category Template as a part of the creation of a metadata object before using CreateDocument (or UploadDocument) to upload the document with attributes.

I suppose the Category Templace must be fetched from the folder I'm placing the documents in, how do I do this? I've tried to use GetNodeTemplate ( ... "Category") but this does not return anything.

BR Geir

Jason_Smith

You can get the category template using the getCategoryTemplate() method. You simply just pass in the ID of the category to this method. The category does not have to be in the same folder you are creating the document in.

The Categories and Attributes sample shows how to use this.

Geir Berglind

Hi,

Sorry for being slow here. Do I really need to create a Category for each document I upload as the Categories and Attributes Sample shows? I presume the documents I create in a folder inherits the Categories from the folder?

I wanted to do:

1) Get the category template from the parent folder

2) Use this template to build the metadata object (attributegroup) for each document I insert

If this is correct, how do I find the CategoryId from the parent folder so that I can call GetCategoryTemplate?

BR Geir

Pramod_Mohandas

Hi Geir,

I’m not sure about the inheritance portion of your query. From the top of my head, the last time I tried to add document under a folder (which had a category attached to it via Web Services), it could not inherit the categories.

I could be very wrong here though. You could try it and let us know.

1. You can get the category information that is attached to a document/folder by retrieving its details. (getNode, getNodeByName and so on..) Metadata is the key that you will need to look into once you retrieve the information. You should find the CategoryID there too.

2. Once you retrieve the metadata info, you can use the same template to further create/attach to new nodes. Fairly easy once you have all the info.

Thanks & Regards,

Pramod Mohandas

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Hi,

I wanted to do:

1) Get the category template from the parent folder

2) Use this template to build the metadata object (attributegroup) for each document I insert

If this is correct, how do I find the CategoryId from the parent folder so that I can call GetCategoryTemplate?

BR Geir

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Appu_Nair1

No you never need to create a category for everything before you use it.Everything in livelink within the Document API is centered around a dataid object.So your parentid has a dataid,so if you ask what is the metadat(acategory) it will give you that.It would make sense to just observe the upload of a document via the webgui so you can actually see whatyour program shoul do.I suspect you have a URL to see livelink?

Much of the hard codes etc can be removed by you as a progarmmer,I suspect the OT examples are for a generation of new developers who have not come across livelink before so it takes you through the cycle of common things people would do in livelink.

Here's something I wrote for API programmers in my org

https://communities.opentext.com/communities/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=9575744&objAction=view

I beleive in that I was trying to show the developers how to get the categories multiple ones in my case

If it is a 10.5 system you are programming OT has recently announced a Restful API as well with lots of good examples.