Common Content

seeDerekNow

Has anyone read tech article 49555 - Common Content?

http://devnet.interwoven.com/site.fcgi/techlib/49555

The article refers to the use of a metadata capture form. Does such a form exist, or do we need to create one ourselves? Has anyone implemented the solution from this article successfully? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Derek

Migrateduser

There is some information in the admin guide about the metadata capture form you can use even if you don't have metatagger installed. But it seems to use the 4.5 templating UI instead of the 5.x templating UI, which is pretty bad and has no formapi. Basically you configure IWHOME/local/config/datacapture.cfg like any other template and then enable some custom menu items.

I would go a different way though - I would just put the metadata fields you need in a piece of inline code and call that inline from all your DCTs. I usually set up the templates so that all of the metadata is in a container on the first page, then the actual content is on the second page. This way the user has all the data in one place, it is a consistant UI, and you have FormAPI. Then, in your workflow, if you need to set them as extended attributes, just parse the XML from the DCR and set the attributes. But since the extended attributes aren't available to downstream systems you probably want to just leave them in XML.