How to set file subtype when uploading?

Patrick Villella

We're using the uploading method shown at https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/fetch/2001/15080935/-15106263/15106294/15106295/17990637/45500683/upload_C#.html for new documents.

It's easy to see how file attributes can be set using fileatts, but I've searched the documentation for everything I can think of and can't find documentation for how to set the subtype of the file.

We can successfully upload new files, yet they are all being created as subtype 144, which I expect is the default 'general document' subtype.

We need the new files to be CAD documents, subtype 736.

Can someone point me to information on how to set the subtype when uploading new documents?

Thank you.

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Hi Patrick,

I don’t think what you’re after is really feasible via OoB web services. Even via CreateNode, the node object you feed it will be missing key properties of CAD objects and are not likely to play nice. Not to mention the difficulty in actually populating all of the properties correctly, manually, to begin with.

I had a peek at the CAD Manager WSDL and I don’t see any “create” methods available there, either.

I can only conclude that as with most non-144 subtypes you’d need to extend a web service, or create one from scratch specifically, to handle your CAD subtype.

If doing bulk CAD drawing uploads is what you’re after it looks like we’ve got a module with that in mind – Object Importer CAD Edition. That might be a workable alternative.

Cheers,

AK

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Posted by Villella, Patrick On 04/27/2016 01:49 PM

We're using the uploading method shown at https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/fetch/2001/15080935/-15106263/15106294/15106295/17990637/45500683/upload_C%23.html for new documents.

It's easy to see how file attributes can be set using fileatts, but I've searched the documentation for everything I can think of and can't find documentation for how to set the subtype of the file.

We can successfully upload new files, yet they are all being created as subtype 144, which I expect is the default 'general document' subtype.

We need the new files to be CAD documents, subtype 736.

Can someone point me to information on how to set the subtype when uploading new documents?

Thank you.

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Correction: Looks like CAD Manager 10.5.2 extends this a bit. It looks like that will ensure that if you set the node object’s Type property to “CADDocument” then it will be added as a 736. CAD Manager does this during the CreateNodeAndVersionContext call prior to upload via the content service.

Hope that helps.

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Posted by Kropp, Alex On 04/27/2016 02:58 PM

Hi Patrick,

I don’t think what you’re after is really feasible via OoB web services. Even via CreateNode, the node object you feed it will be missing key properties of CAD objects and are not likely to play nice. Not to mention the difficulty in actually populating all of the properties correctly, manually, to begin with.

I had a peek at the CAD Manager WSDL and I don’t see any “create” methods available there, either.

I can only conclude that as with most non-144 subtypes you’d need to extend a web service, or create one from scratch specifically, to handle your CAD subtype.

If doing bulk CAD drawing uploads is what you’re after it looks like we’ve got a module with that in mind – Object Importer CAD Edition. That might be a workable alternative.

Cheers,

AK

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Posted by Villella, Patrick On 04/27/2016 01:49 PM

We're using the uploading method shown at https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/fetch/2001/15080935/-15106263/15106294/15106295/17990637/45500683/upload_C%23.html for new documents.

It's easy to see how file attributes can be set using fileatts, but I've searched the documentation for everything I can think of and can't find documentation for how to set the subtype of the file.

We can successfully upload new files, yet they are all being created as subtype 144, which I expect is the default 'general document' subtype.

We need the new files to be CAD documents, subtype 736.

Can someone point me to information on how to set the subtype when uploading new documents?

Thank you.

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Patrick Villella

Alex,

Thank you so much for the reply. I really appreciate it. Any chance you can point me to any documentation here in the Knowledge Center that gives more details on that process using CAD Manager?

It sounds like this is going to be much more involved than we anticipated.

If anyone has been able to successfully upload new documents as 736 subtype using web services, please chime in!

Thanks agaon.

Patrick Villella

Quoted Alex Kropp on 04/27/2016 04:10 PM:

I had a peek at the CAD Manager WSDL and I don’t see any “create” methods available there, either.

We don't currently have 10.5.2 installed so I can't access the WSDL.

Could you save the WSDL you were looking at as a PDF and post it so I could take a look at it?

Thank you!

Not sure what happened… tried to correct an attachment and ended up nuking several posts. I’ll reattach the corrected WSDL and code snippet here.

Previous message:

I spent some time looking into this more closely this morning – my curiosity having been thoroughly piqued. Looks like the one reference I found stating it required 10.5.2 CAD Manager was probably not correct. I examined the cadman OSpace going back as far as 10.5.0 via Eclipse and they’ve all got a DocumentServiceNode orphan – which means that CWS should be “aware” of the CADDocument type so long as the module is there.

To that end I wrote up a quick C# proof-of-concept based on CAD Manager’s own requests to the service and was successful. I can’t speak to 10.0 versions but I’d assume similar results. I do know for sure that with no cadman OSpace installed I get an “unknown type” exception.

I’ve attached a sample of the upload portion of the code – it’s pretty raw, but should be useful as a rough guideline to build something more useful. While I created my Node object from scratch (mostly to see if it could be done that way) you can probably shortcut that by first retrieving an existing CADDocument node object, then altering the properties as desired.

Cheers,

AK

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Posted by Villella, Patrick On 04/27/2016 07:10 PM

Quoted Alex Kropp on 04/27/2016 04:10 PM:

I had a peek at the CAD Manager WSDL and I don’t see any “create” methods available there, either.

We don't currently have 10.5.2 installed so I can't access the WSDL.

Could you save the WSDL you were looking at as a PDF and post it so I could take a look at it?

Thank you!

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cadmanservice wsdl.xml

cad upload sample.txt

Patrick Villella

Alex,

I ran across this post again today and realized that I never responded to you. I'm so sorry about that.

You're post was incredibly helpful and we were able to use your technique to set the document subtype. It's working for us like a champ.

Thank you so much for your assistance!