Import XML data into store to use with DCTs

We have a significant amount of XML data we'd like to import into Teamsite and use DCTs to update the data. When I bring the files into Teamsite in the data directory for a template, I cannot edit them using the template; instead, I get a message that the page cannot be displayed and the option to download the file. However, when I create a new record using a DCT, open the DCR in an editor and replace the content with content out of an existing XML file, it works fine. Is there a way to import XML files so they can be edited using DCTs without using the above-mentioned workaround?

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Adam Stoller

A DCR is only treated as a DCR if it lives in the correct directory structure *and* has the correct TeamSite EAs associated with it - this has been discussed numerous times throughout the forums (though I'd imagine you'll find more references in the Templating forum than in this Content Management one).

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

gzevin

as fish said, there are plenty of threads discussing this.

however, for your quick reference, this is a paragraph from the templating best practice document (that I co-authored when I was with IWOV).
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Sometimes you want to populate a data capture record automatically, or you want to create an XML based
file which is going to act as a DCR without going through the TeamSite GUI to create a data record.
Here's how to label the DCR file so that the templating subsystem recognizes it.
If you create a DCR without going through the templating UI, you'll find that the DCR isn't recognized as
such. However, you can turn a DCR formatted XML file into one that the template system recognizes as
one of its own by adding special extended attributes to the file:
In the example below "Generic/Story" is the category/type of the template. This is a snippet of Perl code:



$assignment_vpath =
TeamSite::CGI_lite::escape_html_data("/default/main/client400/WORKAREA/myworka
rea");
$cmd = "$iwhome/bin/iwextattr -s TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type=Generic/Story
$assignment_vpath" . "/templatedata/Generic/Story/data/". $file;
`$cmd`;

In words, the command above sets an extended attribute key/value pair on $file, where the key is
"TeamSite/Templating/DCR/Type", the value is "Generic/Story", and this key/value pair is being
applied to the file
"/default/main/client400/WORKAREA/myworkarea/templatedata/Generic/Story/data/$file".

When the template system sees this key/value pair, it recognizes this file as a DCR.

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