On save of every DCR of same datatype, want to create a meta file

Anil Kumar

We have a DCT, with we have already created 100 DCRs. For all this 100 DCRs, we have correspondingly 100 .aspx files which represents 100 pages. Now we have added 4 items in datacapture.cfg and started updating those items with values in all 100 DCRs. And we would like to extract those 4 items and wish to create a .meta file.

Suppose if my first.xml DCR has elements as below
<meta>
<desc content="some description"/>
<keys kw=" key words"/>
<auth author="Aneel"/>
<extra extra="some"/>
</meta>

I want to extract the above meta info and format in required style and save as first.meta
So that we can include this meta file in first.aspx

Any help how to achieve this without extra perl script.

Thanks, Aneel

Rick Poulin

You want to build custom functionality without writing new code? Good luck with that.

If the meta information is to be used only as an include for the .aspx file, then why not update your presentation template to embed that info directly in the generated .aspx?

If you must have it as a separate file for a reason you haven't mentioned, you can:
a) create a new presentation template to generate the .meta from the DCR
b) create a workflow task that triggers this for you
c) all of the above