DCT: Read from a list of DCRs

glcummins

I encountered an impediment while attempting to create a DCT that will allow a users to select from a list of existing DCRs. In this case, the DCT allows users to create an "Editor's Pick" list from all available articles.

To accomplish this, I need to create a DCT that can parse all available DCRs for a certain node ("articleHeadline" for example) and return the DCR name as an option value, and the headline as the option text.

I first thought to use FormsAPI, but unless I make all of the DCRs available via HTTP requests, I couldn't find a useful method.

The second attempt was to create a datasource as described in the manual "Teamsite 7.2: Data Capture Development" (pp. 153, 224-225) but I was stymied by my inability to find useful documentation on the subject.

Can anyone point me to documentation that will help to create a DCR-reading dataource or some other method that will help me to accomplish this task?

nipper

I have done stuff like this before with FormAPI/CallServer code

The FormAPI kicks off a web service (call server) which reads the DCRs, builds an array of file names/Titles, and returns that data via JS call, to the FormAPI which then updates the scrolling list