DCT: Read a list of DCRs

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.