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Prepending Saved Text In DCR

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Is it possible to prepend (if that really is a word) hard coded text into values entered via a DCT?

For example. I want a user to enter a text entry for a branch name. In this case the text entered by the user is "Commerce". But when the DCT gets saved to a DCR, I want the value within the DCR to actually read "default/main/Commerce".

Any help, links, or RTFM's would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim

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iwovGraduate

One option is to use a callout with a text box where the user enters "Commerce" and then have you callout return "default/main/Commerce" to the DCT.
FormAPI might be another approach - but I have not played with it enough to recommend anything.
Hope that helps.

Migrateduser

Thank you very much. I'm looking into that right now.

akshathp

...and, if you are using the DCR value in your TPL, then within TPL you could utilize <iw_perl> to fetch the value ina variable and concatenate the "default/main" to it.

Hope this helps!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

james1

<iw_perl> is overkill in this case!

Instead of:


...<iw_value name="whatever"/>...

which would only insert "Commerce", you are suggesting doing this:


...<iw_perl>
<![CDATA[
my $vpath = "/default/main/" . iwpt_dcr_value("whatever");
]]></iw_perl>
<iw_value name="$vpath"/>...

when you could simply do this:


.../default/main/<iw_value name="whatever"/>...

I think that that is much simpler and clearer.

-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering

akshathp

Yes, I agree with you on this point. I was thinking with <iw_perl> way we can also have a validation or also have it append any text dynamically.

But yeah, if they have to append only "default/main" always then certainly it was an overkill.

It's so amazing that not everytime we need a complex way to resolve an issue. It can be done in a very simple way too !!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Migrateduser

If you want to information to be saved in the generated page, then the other posting has already made it very clear what to do.

If you insist on save it to DCR, besides callout, you can use formapi to modify the value for that item using the onSave event, this way, it will be saved to dcr.

Migrateduser

Hi,

I used same way \\default\\main what ever branchname then i am adding dcr name .But it is not dynamic i mean when i am moving from development area to other work area i need to change.Do u have any soln. for to get current workarea path in tpl.
Thanx

Adam Stoller

Check the documentation on iw_perl (link good if TeamSite installed on localhost, otherwise replace "localhost" with your TeamSite server's name)

Specifically - look at the functions iwpt_get_dcr_name() and/or iwpt_get_pt_name()

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)