parse DCR and add or modify a node value

HI
is it possible during generate or regenerate process add or modify a node value of DCR file?

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Is it possible - yes, is it reasonable to do so - unclear?

The PT can call arbitrary programs and/or Perl code to do all sorts of things, one of which could be to go and modify the contents of a DCR - but I think you'd have to provide a good use-case scenario fo why you'd need to do this before implementing it because there are a number of factors that make this less than a "safe" or trivial thing to do.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

carletto

HI,
It's very simple use-case.

Contributor fills a DCR Template and generates a relative html page and submit his work for approval.
After approval workflow engine starts Opendeploy and DataDeploy process.
I must deploy in a database table some values of a DCR Fieds and the URL of HTML Page tha it was generate.
So I tried to parse a DCR after generation process and modify a value of a node URLProducts.
I put this code in TPL

sub WriteUrlNode{

my $OutputPath = shift;
my $DcrPath = shift;
my (@line,$PathPage,$strToCompare,$IndexValue);
my $line;

$line=1;
$strToCompare="<item name=\"urlprodotto\">";
$PathPage = &decodePath($OutputPath,$WorkArea);
$FileName ="$DcrPath"."_prova";

open (INPUTDCR,"$DcrPath");
while(<INPUTDCR>){
push @line,$_;
}
close (INPUTDCR);

open(OUTPUTDCR,">$DcrPath");
for($i;$i<scalar(@line);$i++){
if(index($line[$i],$strToCompare)>0){
$line[$i+1] =~ s/^(.*)/<value>$PathPage<\/value>/g;
}
print OUTPUTDCR $line[$i];
}
close(OUTPUTDCR);

Adam Stoller

It's very simple use-case.

Contributor fills a DCR Template and generates a relative html page and submit his work for approval.
After approval workflow engine starts Opendeploy and DataDeploy process.
I must deploy in a database table some values of a DCR Fieds and the URL of HTML Page tha it was generate.
So I tried to parse a DCR after generation process and modify a value of a node URLProducts.

Are you saying that you want to change the contents of the DCR to include a field that provides the path / URL of the page that was generated from that DCR??

What happens if you generate more than one page from a single DCR?

Why not use TeamSite Extended Attributes to store the name of the generated page ? That way you wouldn't have to parse through the DCR nor attempt to change it's contents - you could use iwextattr to retrieve any previous value and/or to set or append any new value.

DataDeploy works with extended attributes as well as DCR content.

I guess I'm still failing to see why you need to programatically alter the contents of the DCR after the contributor has finished entering the data.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

carletto

Thanks Fish!

First of all, where I can find documentation about iwextattr and his integration with datadeploy?

Adam Stoller

For information about iwextattr - try iwextattr -h or look in the TeamSite Command Line Tools manual.

For information about DataDeploy - read the Data Deploy manuals.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)