._ files being added when using Webdav

[matg]

Hi,

We have been using webdav to populate Livelink with our content on Mac OS X.

For every file added e.g. expenses.doc another file get added e.g. ._expenses.doc

The ._ (dot underscore) file is usually a hidden file in OS X but LL sees it, is there any way of telling LL not to list the ._ files?

 

[Syntergy]

If you are looking for a quick fix you could modify the file browseview.html in the opentext\webnode\html directory and add some Oscript to exclude these files from being displayed when browsing folders. Right after the line ";for nodeRec in contents" add ";if nodeRec.NAME[1:2] != '._'" and also add the corresponding ";end" before the last ";end" at the bottom of the page. It would look something like:

;for nodeRec in contents
;if nodeRec.NAME[1:2] != "._"
...
;end
;end

As a rule you don't modify the distributed files but if there is a simple change like this one it's usually ok to break the rule. Just make sure you make a copy of the file available before you start editing it.