Output file attribute of DCR

I've read a lot of forums related to this topic and want something that everyone else would like. Is there anyway that once a user fills out the form settings in the dcr that the output file can be added to the attributes of the dcr? Hopefully we could then prefill the output file in the form settings in every session if we can get this saved to the dcr attributes. Is there anyway to do this?? If the generated file has association to the dcr it just seems there should be a way to associate the generated file to the dcr.

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Adam Stoller

You can certainly do this - but it's a custom implementation at this point in time not something that comes out-of-the-box.

We do that at my customer's site where part of the workflow process used for generating the output files attached EAs to the DCR for each file generated which then makes it possible for us to do things like start from a selected generated file -> find the DCR -> find all the generated files -- which comes in useful for things like deletions, renamings, etc.

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

lizn

I could use any help or reference to where I can find information on doing this.

Adam Stoller

Read the manuals regarding iwextattr, learn Perl - or hire an experienced consusltant. It's not really that difficult - determine how you want to key the metadata, write routines for setting, retrieiving, and deleting the EAs specifically for this metadata, write other code that uses those routines either in the PT's themselves or in scripts that call iwgen / iwpt_compile.ipl to take care of it for you after the page generation.

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