How to get / set ceiling-dir attribute in HP Form API?

I have 2 sites for different languages which goes like sites/en and sites/tr. So in my DCT file i want to give the user the ability to browse for sites/tr or sites/en for their choice. I just need to know how to get or set the ceiling-dirattribute after getting the item with IWDatacapture.getItem

<item name="detail-page-link" pathid="detail-page-link">
<label>Detail Page Link</label>
<browser ceiling-dir="sites/" extns="page,html" required="t"/>           

</item>

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David Smith

Ege wrote:
I have 2 sites for different languages which goes like sites/en and sites/tr. So in my DCT file i want to give the user the ability to browse for sites/tr or sites/en for their choice. I just need to know how to get or set the ceiling-dirattribute after getting the item with IWDatacapture.getItem
<item name="detail-page-link" pathid="detail-page-link">
<label>Detail Page Link</label>
<browser ceiling-dir="sites/" extns="page,html" required="t"/>           

</item>

An example:

<browser size="60" maxlength="255" extns=".shtml" initial-dir="/fragments/mkt/page_styles/" ceiling-dir="/fragments/">

Pauliw

Have you tried ,

1) IWItem.getType () to get Browser type

2) IWItem.setRegex (regex) - set the values accordingly,

Now when the user tries to browse , believe it would take them to those folders specified as value.

This is just an idea

Thanks

Paul

Adam Stoller

Pauliw wrote:
Have you tried ,

1) IWItem.getType () to get Browser type
2) IWItem.setRegex (regex) - set the values accordingly,

Now when the user tries to browse , believe it would take them to those folders specified as value.

This is just an idea

Thanks
Paul

IWItem.getType() will tell you the type of item - in this case that you are on a 'browser' type item, but IWItem.setRegex() is, I belive, for dynamically setting the validation-regex attribute associated with an item; I don't believe it will do anything with regard to setting the initial-dir or ceiling-dir attributes of the browser element.

Pauliw

Thats correct, We might not have the direct way but few validations can help ,

the whole idea is to validate if the user has picked the image according to the DCR locale.

For "So in my DCT file i want to give the user the ability to browse for sites/tr or sites/en for their choice".

In this context Images, i meant the specific content.

ghoti wrote:
Pauliw wrote:
Have you tried ,

1) IWItem.getType () to get Browser type
2) IWItem.setRegex (regex) - set the values accordingly,

Now when the user tries to browse , believe it would take them to those folders specified as value.

This is just an idea

Thanks
Paul
IWItem.getType() will tell you the type of item - in this case that you are on a 'browser' type item, but IWItem.setRegex() is, I belive, for dynamically setting the validation-regex attribute associated with an item; I don't believe it will do anything with regard to setting the initial-dir or ceiling-dir attributes of the browser element.

If you are ok to remove the Browse option have a single select , to select the images , I got an approach to restrict the images / options to pick images according to the locale.

1) have the images tagged to any specific locale -> a seperate metadata only for images like image_en, image_fr,

2) User a datasource for the single selecct , use LSCS Authoring (basically a java program where u can use a LSCS API) to list all the files tagged to the specific metadata (as parameters)

3) locale should be picked for New form entry /edit / sessions -> any other means that can be passed as a paramter to our datasource.

For example

1) tag an image with image_fr

2) A form where i select my locale as an item fr_FR.

3) pass this value fr_FR as a parameter to the datasource onitem Change.

4) the single select will not show me a list of images tagged with image_fr.

This is only a WorkAround/alternate way to show the users images tagged to its locale (custom tag - any name) , Also involves some WORK

Thanks

Paul