TagUI Copy To All & The Event Registry

Ok. I found that the following events were introduced and documented in a "TeamSite®Supplement Release 6.7.2" published by IWOV.

* onAfterItemAppend
* onAfterItemReplace
* onBeforeItemAppend
* onBeforeItemReplace

The problem is... I cant get any of them to fire. Normally FormAPI changes very little and they don't usually deprecate FormAPI code.

Has anyone used these and had success with them?

Thanks,

- Tim

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Garth McMillan

I've not tried to use them, but have you confirmed they are available for TagUI? Not all FormAPI methods are.

I recall one of the manuals mentioned methods that were only available for DCFs and not supported on TagUI. Unfortunately, I can't recall which manual that was.

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Adam Stoller

Are you using the New TagUI - or the old Set Metadata interface for tagging things?

I know the thread subject says "TagUI" - but some folks mistake one for the other. The items specified sound very much like they'd either be for the new TagUI or perhaps MetaTagger - I don't believe those are FormsPublisher functions as FormsPublisher doesn't generally have 'Append' or 'Replace' functions.

(I haven't done much with TagUI in a while, nor MetaTagger in a longer while, so I cannot say for sure about the above)

Tim__D

I've not tried to use them, but have you confirmed they are available for TagUI? Not all FormAPI methods are.

I recall one of the manuals mentioned methods that were only available for DCFs and not supported on TagUI. Unfortunately, I can't recall which manual that was.

In the documentation it specifically states "The following new events related to tagging have been added to the Event Registry and
are now available to user scripts:"

Thanks,

Tim

Tim__D

Are you using the New TagUI - or the old Set Metadata interface for tagging things?

I know the thread subject says "TagUI" - but some folks mistake one for the other. The items specified sound very much like they'd either be for the new TagUI or perhaps MetaTagger - I don't believe those are FormsPublisher functions as FormsPublisher doesn't generally have 'Append' or 'Replace' functions.

(I haven't done much with TagUI in a while, nor MetaTagger in a longer while, so I cannot say for sure about the above)

I'm referring to TagUI and am using the new TagUI not the legacy one. As the new TagUI is much like FormsPublisher and has access to FormAPI based on the way the doc was written "The following new events related to tagging have been added to the Event Registry and
are now available to user scripts:" I was expecting these events to be available.

Thanks,

Tim

Adam Stoller

Going back to original post ...

* onAfterItemAppend
* onAfterItemReplace
* onBeforeItemAppend
* onBeforeItemReplace

The problem is... I cant get any of them to fire.

How are you trying to get them to fire?

I presume they only fire based on certain actions taken through the UI - actions which probably only exist when tagging multiple files at once.

The more detailed you are about the actions you're going through to reproduce the problem - the better chance someone else (who has time) can try to reproduce it on their system.

Tim__D

Going back to original post ...How are you trying to get them to fire?

I presume they only fire based on certain actions taken through the UI - actions which probably only exist when tagging multiple files at once.

The more detailed you are about the actions you're going through to reproduce the problem - the better chance someone else (who has time) can try to reproduce it on their system.

Thats correct. Reading the docs it looks like all your supposed to have to so is specify a handler using of these events.
* onAfterItemAppend
* onAfterItemReplace
* onBeforeItemAppend
* onBeforeItemReplace

And when you click "copy to all" and the item you specify in the event handlers is updated, the handler should be called. I did not have any luck doing so and an well versed in FormAPI.


IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/item_name","onAfterItemReplace",handlerName);

function handlerName() {
  alert("Hi ghoti");
}

I'll double check my syntax but this answers part of my question. Not a lot of developers are using these Smiley Happy

Adam Stoller

[...]And when you click "copy to all" and the item you specify in the event handlers is updated, the handler should be called. I did not have any luck doing so and an well versed in FormAPI.
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/item_name","onAfterItemReplace",handlerName);

function handlerName() {
  alert("Hi ghoti");
}

What actually happens in the UI - do existing values get replaced or appended to?
I'm asking because, if you only have that one event handler, it is possible that it isn't getting triggered because it's the wrong event.

You may have already gone through this exercise, but what I'd try (if I had the time and a system available to do so) - would be something like this:

function init() {
  IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/aaa","onAfterItemReplace", handler1);
  IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/bbb","onAfterItemAppend", handler2);
  IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/ccc","onBeforeItemReplace", handler3);
  IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/record/location/ddd","onBeforeItemAppend", handler4);
}
function handler1(item) {
    alert("1: " + item);
    return true;
}

function handler2(item) {
    alert("2: " + item);
    return true;
}

function handler3(item) {
    alert("3: " + item);
    return true;
}

function handler4(item) {
    alert("4: " + item);
    return true;
}

I'd also consider doing this in Firefox with Firebug.
Hope that helps...