Get the Workspaces

I need to access all the information in Personal and Enterprice workspace.

I was using Restful API, for example http://localhost/OTCS/livelink.exe/api/v1/volumes/141/nodes. But I couldn't access the personal workspaces for ALL users so, now I'm trying to do the same with webservices. But the I don't have the long IDs to access the root nodes.

Is there any code sample to accomplish a general read of the content of the repository?

Thanks

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Ferdinand Prantl

You could get all users and then open connection for every single one using impersonation. (Only sytem administrators can impersonate the connection for other user.) When you have the impersonated connection, the volume (subtype) 142 points to the personal workspace of the particular user.

The REST API doesn't support the impersonation (yet?), the SOAP WS do.

John_Henry_Gross

Impersonalization. Got it.

How about the Enterprise nodes? How can I get the long values to lookup the nodes? I only have the types, for example

Folder = 0

Category = 132

Compound Document =136

Document = 144

etc etc

Ferdinand Prantl

I found this in the DocumentManagement service:

Node getRootNode(String rootType)
Get a root node by root node type, one of 'EnterpriseWS', 'PersonalWS', 'CategoriesWS', 'ReportsWS', 'UndeleteWS', 'System'.

Dave_Kinchlea

I don't know of any code that will do what you ask, I'm not sure how advisable it would be in any case ... that could be a lot of data!

I did face a similar problem with the Desktop Library code, it is a CLI designed for administration and scripting purposes and so listing a Personal Workspace is something that users of the Desktop Library commonly want. Our community code page has a "List-PW" function built from Desktop Library that will list the Personal Workspace of any matching users. The basic algorithm is to use the "listuser" function to find the user(s) you are interested in followed by a "listfolder" for each matching user.

"listuser" is a utility function that will use member.getmemberbyid(), member.getmemberbyLoginName() and member.searchformembers() as required to find one or more matches to the provided string.

"Listfolder" is a wrapper and formatting function for docman.listnodes(),

These get you close to what you asked for but not quite, as far as I can tell, there is no easy way to provide all the member accounts unless you have a single group that all users belong to (perhaps "DefaultGroup")? them member.listmembers(1001) would get you that list and you can iterate through the results using docman.listnodes() to get the PWs.

All of this, of course, requires the authenticated user to have user administrative rights but there is no need for impersonation.

Quoted John Henry Gross on 03/31/2014 12:10 PM:

I need to access all the information in Personal and Enterprice workspace.

Is there any code sample to accomplish a general read of the content of the repository?

Thanks

John_Henry_Gross

Thanks for all the help

Tiago Vilhena

Hi John,

You can use GetRootNode(ref DocManOTAuth, "PersonalWS")

Just use the OTAuthentication from the impersonated user.

Hope this helps,

Tiago

Jason_Smith

Also, without using impersonation, it may be helpful just to know that a user's personal workspace has the same ID as the user's ID. You need Admin privs to access other user's personal workspaces, but the same is true for being able to use impersonation.

Chris Meyer

Quoted Jason Smith on 04/01/2014 06:18 PM:

..it may be helpful just to know that a user's personal workspace has the same ID as the user's ID.

Are you sure or am I misunderstanding something? On my instance the Admin user has a UserID of 1000, while the Admin personal workspace has a DataID of 2003.

Jason_Smith

Yes of course...an exception to this is for the Admin user. For all other users this should be true.

John_Henry_Gross

I followed the recomendation of Jason Smith and Dave Kinhlea. So, I was able to access the personal workspaces for all users by getting the id of all users with MemberService.searchForMembers()

Then using each id and call DocumentManagement.listNodes(id,false). That way I get the nodes of the users (Personal Workspace)