automate the creation of a URL newsitem in Upfront

[hmunk]

Is it possible to automate the creation of URL newsitems in Upfront. We have lots of pdf-Documents which has to be linked in Upfront. It causes a lot of work to do that manually. E.G. if the name of one pdf-file changes, you have to link the file again ...
Thanks.
Hede

 

[PaulBirch]

Hi hmunk,

Have a look at the ppadmtool. Discussed in the PDF manual for Powerplay Enterprise Server guide (page 81 I think). This tool allows you do various things such as change file names, publish documents, cubes etc.. all from the command line. This enables you to build a batch file containing a list of often used commands.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Paul.

 

[CanadianTechie]

Take a look at the Upfront Developers Guide. You can create a .utml file that contains xml directives to perform/automate otherwise tedius administrative tasks.

You would execute a command like the one below, replacing filename.utml with the filename that you create with the xml -- I have also included an example below of how to create a URL newsitem...this is right out of the pdf manual I alluded to earlier...

http://computername/cognos/cgi-bin/...><template>filename.utml</template></GetPage>

Submit Example for URL NewsItem
<CreateNewsItem>
<Name>Chicago%20Sales%20Figures%202000</Name>
<ParentId>e82955e0bffd11d58b34b6f15f5b46c0</ParentId>
<ProviderType>Other</ProviderType>
<DefaultAction>View</DefaultAction>
<PictureURLText>icon_newsitem_url.gif</PictureURLText>
<ShowToConsumerFlag>Y</ShowToConsumerFlag>
<Action>
<Name>View</Name>
<URLText>

http://www.cognos.com</URLText>

<PictureURLText%20/>
<Label>View</Label>
<URL>%20

http://www.cognos.com </URL>

</Action>
<Description>Test%20URL%20NewsItem.</Description>
</CreateNewsItem>



Pedro Cardoso
A.K.A CanadianTechie