Change SUBTYPE via LiveReport (OpenText Livelink) 2

[minoriza1]

Hi, I'm about to use LiveReport to change the subtype of an object in Livelink. Has anyone does this before? Does anyone know it doing this would create a ripple effect that might jeopardize the integrity of the whole database? Appreciate any comments on this..

 

[ggriffit]

why are you needing to do this ?

just updating the SUBTYPE column in DTREE will give you the change of Livelink Object Type, but any additional data for that new object will not be populated and therefore may cause issues, not to mention any issues with Permissions or Categories etc.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[appnair]

What is the reason for this ?The command sets for objects are based on subtypes so a project object behaves differently from a document or a folder object.You will probably get a lot of weird screens,trace files,Server Did Not Respond etc depending on what livelink's code is trying to do.

If you have problems with a particular subtype extract it and then import it as the new subtype either thru lapi or oscript

Having said that we have actually developed a folder looking object orphaning the ffolder code and since we wrote it has found that it is freely interchangeable as the folder or our custom object.I cannot say with any surety whether this would work in your case.

My USD 0.02


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[minoriza1]

Thanks guys. I've decided not to do this after all. The reason I wanted to do this earlier was quite a silly one actually. So, not quite worth mentioning here.

Anyway thanks again.