Get workarea path in presentation template

Hi

Any pointers to retrieve workarea path in presentation template. I am using xslt as tpl. No perl is allowed.

Also if there is any sample java code to retrieve the workarea, it would be helpful.

Thanks in advance
Krishna.

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annu1

Hi,

You can workaround by either getting the workarea in DCT(By getWorkarea method) and set the Workarea in hidden field and use that hidden field info in u'r tpl.

May someone have other Idea.

Thanks
Anu

krishna_kumar

We had this thought but not considered. Is there any api i can use in my xslt to fetch the workarea??

Thanks in advance.

Adam Stoller

We had this thought but not considered. Is there any api i can use in my xslt to fetch the workarea??

Thanks in advance.

I haven't done it - but it's possible to load an extension into the XSLT to invoke a Java program / class and to then utilize the information produced by that class within the XSLT stream.

The basic mechanics for doing this you can probably find by searching the WWW.

The specific mechanics for how to code the class you'd probably have to refer to the CSSDK javadocs - however, I'm not sure you'll have direct access to an authenticated session so you'll have to go through the process of creating one (which I haven't had much success with the few times I've tried [outside the context of XSL]).

Theoretically you could also load an extension for running a Perl program into your XSLT, but I haven't done that either.

The suggestion about embedding the information into a hidden field in the DCR and then retrieving it from there is probably the simplest / cleanest solution.

nipper

yet another reason to love presentation templates. And once you have the path, what can you do with it ? I know write a java program. Smiley Very Happy

krishna_kumar

@fish -- Can we dig it a lil bit more. I have already been using java with my xslts (i.e., calling a java method from xslt).

We haven't considered the option of setting hidden variables due to some specific reason(we will have to face issues during cross branch movement)

Like in perl, we used to have simple iw tags to get the workarea. Interwoven cannot ditch teamsite users working with xslt and java. I probably think there must be some api in java (provided by Interwoven) which i can use in my xslt to fetch the workarea.

Referring to csdocs, there is an api. But the problem is it needs authentication. Username, password etc,. should be sent in as arguments.
The thing is i don't want to make things complicated.

Any help is appreciated.

Adam Stoller

@Fish -- Can we dig it a lil bit more. I have already been using java with my xslts (i.e., calling a java method from xslt).

As I said, I haven't done it - nor do I need to do it currently, so I'm not going to spend my time trying to figure it out for you (for free).

We haven't considered the option of setting hidden variables due to some specific reason(we will have to face issues during cross branch movement)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "cross branch movement" - are you saying that you would be in branch-A and process a DCR in branch-B to generate output in branch-A ?
It's an interesting idea (not sure how reasonable, but interesting) however again, I haven't done it, and don't need to do it right now so ....

Like in perl, we used to have simple iw tags to get the workarea. Interwoven cannot ditch teamsite users working with xslt and java. I probably think there must be some api in java (provided by Interwoven) which i can use in my xslt to fetch the workarea.

Referring to csdocs, there is an api. But the problem is it needs authentication. Username, password etc,. should be sent in as arguments.
The thing is i don't want to make things complicated.

Any help is appreciated.

You've already made things complicated (apparently) with this "cross branch movement" concept - however, another approach might be to wrap the process in a script that retrieves the desired information and passes it in as a command line parameter to the XSLT processor (I believe this can be done, though I'm not exactly sure of how as it seems that it may differ from processor to processor)

krishna_kumar

Thanks all. I have finally found solution to this.

There is small code snippet we can use. Thanks to Interwoven.

Special thanks to fish for your time.

Adam Stoller

Thanks all. I have finally found solution to this.

There is small code snippet we can use. Thanks to Interwoven.

Special thanks to fish for your time.

Can you post the details of the code snippet and how you used it to resolve your issue?

SoulReaver

Thanks all. I have finally found solution to this.

There is small code snippet we can use. Thanks to Interwoven.

Special thanks to fish for your time.

It would be very useful , if you post the code snippet and provide the steps to use it.

jlove

Was the code example ever posted?

mart2001

Looks like it was a hit and run freebie.

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Migrateduser

Came across this thread while looking for something else. The poster "jlove" works with me, and he actually found how to do this through Interwoven support. They have an XSL file called iwtools.xsl that includes functions for getting the area, DCT, and other useful information. You just import that XSL into your presentation XSL, and use as you need. I have attached the file.

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Sap16

Can you please share that snippet code for retrieving workarea in XSLT.

It will help us too.

Thanks in advanced
-Sap Smiley Happy

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Sap16

thanks jwhitloc

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