iw_gen not writing extended attributes

Lex

I'm having a very strange problem with iw_gen not writing extended attributes when called from a Perl script. If I call iw_gen from a command line everything works as expected. However, when I call it within a Perl script (which is called from a workflow), here are the results:

1) If the file being generated does not pre-exist the file is generated fine, but no extended attributes are written.

2) If the file being generated pre-exists *without* extended attributes (as a result of 1 above) the file is generated fine, but no extended attributes are written.

3) If the file being generated pre-exists *with* extended attributes (as a result of either manually generating from the templating UI or from the command line) the file is generated fine and extended attributes are written.

Here is how it's being called in the Perl code:

my $success = system("$iw_gen -t $template -r $datarecord $weeklyfact_file");

I wanted to make sure the command was being properly formed (which I was certain it was since the file *is* actually generated) so I added this:

open(LOGGING_FILE, ">d:\\testlog.log");
print LOGGING_FILE "$iw_gen -t $template -r $datarecord $weeklyfact_file";
close(LOGGING_FILE);

After the Perl script is called from the workflow, the log file contains:

d:\iw-home\bin\iwgen -t /default/main/WY/WORKAREA/wy_dev/templatedata/wyaboutus/wywklyforest/presentation/wyforestfact.tpl -r /default/main/WY/WORKAREA/wy_dev/templatedata/wyaboutus/wywklyforest/data/weeklyfact /default/main/WY/WORKAREA/wy_dev/weeklyfact/weeklyfact.asp

I can't figure out why this doesn't work in Perl, but works fine on the command line. I can cut and paste the above in a command window and the file will be generated *with* the proper extended attributes. There's got to be something basic I'm missing, but I don't know what. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Darryl

Adam Stoller

What version of TeamSite / TeamSite Templating are you using (including SP and patches)?

What platform are you running on? (WNT or W2K or ?)

Have you tried using back-ticks (``) instead of system() ? -- more out of curiosity to see if it works one way as opposed to the other, but it seems like it should work in either case.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)