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I encountered an impediment while attempting to create a DCT that will allow a users to select from a list of existing DCRs. In this case, the DCT allows users to create an "Editor's Pick" list from all available articles.

To accomplish this, I need to create a DCT that can parse all available DCRs for a certain node ("articleHeadline" for example) and return the DCR name as an option value, and the headline as the option text.

I first thought to use FormsAPI, but unless I make all of the DCRs available via HTTP requests, I couldn't find a useful method.

The second attempt was to create a datasource as described in the manual "Teamsite 7.2: Data Capture Development" (pp. 153, 224-225) but I was stymied by my inability to find useful documentation on the subject.

Can anyone point me to documentation that will help to create a DCR-reading dataource or to some other method that will help me to accomplish this task?

George Cummins
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You can read a list of DCR names in a particular folder to display in a select box by using the browser tag in your Data Capture Template(DCT).

<browser initial-dir="templatedata/Student/data" ceiling-dir="templatedata/Student/data" required="f" readonly="f">

The above browser tag can read all the DCR names in the templatedata/Student/data folder and will provide you with a drop down box.

Hari Reddy
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  • Thank you for your answer, but this doesn't solve the problem I face. I am not looking for a list of DCRs names, but rather for the ability to parse the DCRs for a certain node (articleHeadline, for example) and insert the results as options in a select field. The DCR names do not have enough data to allow users to make knowledgeable selections. – George Cummins Apr 21 '12 at 12:29
  • Something similar to what you are looking for can be done by reading information from the DCR's on the teamsite server using the cssdk provided by teamsite with Java. – Hari Reddy Apr 23 '12 at 07:12
  • Assuming you want to use the list of DCRs and the articleHeadline node value from all the DCRs inside a component, I have prepared the below solution. You can create a Java/.Net class external send the path of the DCR files names. You can read the DCR files inside the class and create Dom4J xml nodes. Hope this helps. Thanks. – Ravi Sep 24 '12 at 05:36