How to set ceiling-dir and initial-dir of <browser> dynamically?

I am working on TS 7.3.1.
I want to set ceiling-dir and initial-dir of dynamically.
I have locale-specific DCRs getting saved in separate folders: data\en_US and data\ca_FR.
If en_US DCR is edited, I need to set the ceiling-dir and initial-dir to respective locale-specific folders. E.g. static\en_US\images or static\ca_FR\images.

Did not find any method in FormAPI documentation to do this.
Can anyone provide details, if you have tried similar thing already?

Regards,
Gauri

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Adam Stoller

I am working on TS 7.3.1.
I want to set ceiling-dir and initial-dir of dynamically.
I have locale-specific DCRs getting saved in separate folders: data\en_US and data\ca_FR.
If en_US DCR is edited, I need to set the ceiling-dir and initial-dir to respective locale-specific folders. E.g. static\en_US\images or static\ca_FR\images.

Did not find any method in FormAPI documentation to do this.
Can anyone provide details, if you have tried similar thing already?

Regards,
Gauri

There have been hacks for this posted in the forums before (you might get lucky with the forum search) - but generally the best solution is to write your own browsing utility which you can then code to allow the dynamic setting of such values (you might be able to use a somewhat standard file browser as a callout for a text field rather than writing your own browsing code completely)

Rick Poulin

For the hack (unsupported) version, see
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=37304
and
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=25112

gauri

For the hack (unsupported) version, see
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=37304
and
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=25112

Thanks. Will check on this.

Also, want to check whether following is possible.
If I will somehow get DCR path in the perl script, I will be able to know what locale the DCR belongs to and I will be able to set the ceiling directory accordingly.

Is there any out-of-the-box method/function/env variable that returns DCR path, that I can call in perl script?
If yes, I will call that in the perl script to identify the locale. (My DCRs are getting saved in locale-specific folders, i.e. data\en_US or data\ca_FR. So, from the DCR path, I will be able to identify the locale).
Not sure if package ‘TeamSite::Config’ has any method for this, similar to TeamSite::Config::iwgethome().

Where can I get documentation for TeamSite::Config package?

ISCBorisB

Is there any out-of-the-box method/function/env variable that returns DCR path, that I can call in perl script?

That depends on your perl execution thread context.

If you are thinking about DCT "inline" to solve your "dynamic ceiling/initial" problem, the answer is "no".
Inline gets executed on DCT parsing phase, DCR is not yet known. "IW_DCT" Environment variable that contains
"datacapture.cfg" Vpath is the best you can get in this thread.

In FormAPI you can use IWDatacapture.getDCRPath() method and pass DCR location to callServer or DCR callout
threads.