Prefilled DCT Replicants

argh_teamsite

We are working on a DCT that has replicant fields (SectionHeading, SectionText). We want to pre-poulate a certain number of SectionHeadings(text field) and SectionText(tinymce textarea) so our authors don't have to enter it each time. We are using replicants so they can add/remove/edit/reorder these sections for the 10% of the time the standard set does not suffice.

 

Brute force approach is to add these using FormAPI(addreplicant etc) when form is first created.

 

Is there a way to write the DCT so I could achieve the same? I feel this would be a cleaner way to go about it. It seems we can prefill regular text fields but not prefill individual replicant items

 

I have about 10 such DCTs that have such a need.

 

Teamsite 7.3.2

 

Thanks for your inputs/ideas.

 

 

 

Rick Poulin

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argh-teamsite wrote:

Brute force approach is to add these using FormAPI(addreplicant etc) when form is first created.

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This is the only truly supported way. The alternative is to hijack the form creation process such that your server would "pre-create" a DCR with the given name and then redirect the user to edit that record.