setmetadata

Hi
I am working on a custom menu CGI script. User can select a file in the Teamsite UI and select "Set EA" from File menu. This CGI menu item gets the existing EA for that file and also compiles a presentation template that spits out an HTML Metadatacapture form which contains fields pre-populated with the existing metadata on the selected file. User can add more metadata for the file.
My problem is when the user adds additional metadata and clicks submit , i post this form data to another CGI. But i am unable to get the form values in the CGI. I am using POST method.
Can i use iwsetmetadata.cgi to set the form metadata values to the file?
Or is there any other alternative way of achieving this?
Any help in this regards is highly appreciated.
Thanks.

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Adam Stoller

Perhaps I'm missing something here - but is there a reason why you're not just calling iwmetadata.cgi (not iwsetmetadata.cgi) directly as your custom menu item? What is it that you are doing, that isn't handled OOTB?

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

GodBlessMe

i've written my own cgi to do that.......not iwmetadata.cgi

Adam Stoller

The question remains - why? What benefit are you getting out of reinventing this particular wheel?

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

gzevin

Fish -

before TS 6 (and TS 5 with metatageer-enabled MD capture) this awfull grey capture screen was way out of reality and most of my client hated it.

this could explain why users tried to implemet their own capture screens...

Greg Zevin, Ph.D. Comp. Sc.
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU

Adam Stoller

If that's the case, fine - then TS 6 will be an improvement over what they currently get OOTB - but if that wasn't the issue, it remains useful to know what they were trying to accomplish since it could be something that would make a useful product enhancement for a post-6.0 release - that's why I was asking.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

hemranga

HI
I have done exactly this kind of a thing but i am not setting it as a metadata. I am setting it as an extended attributes.

If u slightly change what you have done, then your prog will work.
Instead if using a post method, use a Query string and then retrieve the values you are posting. Then it will work.
If you need more inmformation do mail me at hemanth.r@itcinfotech.com
have fun...Hemanth