metadata readonly

Hi everyone,
does anybody know whether I can make certain text fields of my metadata capture template (form) readonly, either for certain users/roles or in general?
I've found out that by editing the metadataruleview.itml file I can make the fields readonly in general, but there seems no way to specifically chose which field should be readonly and which not.
Any ideas?
I'm working with TS 5.5.2 on WinNT.

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Adam Stoller

Have you read through the TeamSite Templating Developer's Guide?
There are 'readonly' elements that can be applied to 'item' elements.

Perhaps you can be more specific about the use-case you are trying to support and how you are attempting to code it?

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

tobias

Hi fish,
I'm not sure, whether we're talking about the same thing. I was referring to the metadata datacapture, whose DTD (metadata4.0.dtd) doesn't feature any readonly elements or attributes.
What I try to accomplish is a metadata capture form that contains several text fields, some of which shall be readonly. These readonly fields shall be populated via callouts, as I can't allow manual user input (the entered values have to match values stored in a database). This callout-based population works fine.
However, a couple of fields the user shall fill manually, therefore I can't set the entire form to readonly. But if all fields are writable I can't guarantee the correctness of the above mentioned fields.
I've seen that there seems to be a datacapture5.0.dtd that features readonly elements. However, the metadata.cgi seems to use datacapture4.0.dtd. Is there a way to upgrade to 5.0?
Thanks for your help, I hope it's not too confusing.

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Adam Stoller

One way to upgrade to a more enhanced metadata capture form would be to purchase / install MetaTagger - and while I think it's a very good product and provides all sorts of great functionality, you probably need a bit more business justification for your environment before going down that route.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Migrateduser

Hello,

Does mean then that I cannot have readonly attributes in my Metadata capture file if I dont have MetaTagger?

Is there any work-around?

thanks

Adam Stoller

I believe the answer is yes-but. Yes, without MetaTagger in the current version of TeamSite you won't be able to get readonly fields in the metadata capture form. But, if/when you upgrade to TeamSite 6 I believe this fucntionality will be provided OOTB for metadata capture forms.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)