Delimiter in datacapture.cfg

System

Hi,
We're using MetaTagger 3.5 and Teamsite 5.5.2 on W2K. We are having trouble setting MetaTagger information when there is a comma in the value - it doesn't get set. Here is a snippet from our datacapture.cfg:

<item name="Image Type">
<database data-type="VARCHAR(40)" />
<select >
<option label=" --- Select --- " value="" />
<option label="St. Louis Blues" value="hockey, sports, choke" />
</select>
</item>

I tried changing <select> to <select delimiter="~"> but that didn't help. Taking the commas out of the value fixes it, but is there a way to avoid this problem? Thanks,

David

Adam Stoller

MetaTagger defaults to using commas as separators, and cannot be overridden in the DCT itself. Instead you need to create another configuration file, mthome/conf/mdstore.cfg that contains something like this:

---

<config>
  <output>
    <valueSetSeparator>;</valueSetSeparator> 
  </output> 
</config> 

---

NOTE:Note that this is an install-time configuration. You cannot change this param once set without corrupting the EAs. You would need to search and replace all existing MT-generated EAs to use this new separator character.

I didn't see this mentioned in the documentation, so I've filed a bug (39818) with regard to that apparent omission.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Adam Stoller

Just an update (as I have received some additional information) - there are two MT generated EAs (per MT-managed field) - one is written as XML, the other is written more simply but uses the separation character.

The XML encoded EA is used by MT, the non-XML character-separated EA is not [re]used by MT - thus you'd only have to walk through and reset EAs for the new separation character if you had *other* processes making use of that non-XML EA.

I hope the above isn't too obfuscated...

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)