Accessing "custom fields" from an XML document

[Anonymous]

I want to add documents from a CAD/CAM system into the Vault. I would like some or all of the metadata stored with the documents to be visible in "custom views". The metadata is stored as elements within an XML document (although with a .drg rather than a .xml extension). Is this possible, and if so, how?

[mattmas]

Vault uses IFilters on the server to determine what contents in the file become "meta-data"...

So you might have to develop your own IFilter to make that work...

[Anonymous]

This will take some programming, aside from "full content" searching. What
you want to look into is MS' "iFilter" mechanism, which is, in part, what
the Windows Indexing Service is based on.

Here's a link that can get you started:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixrefint_9sfm.asp

Basically, you would register an iFilter for your file type (on the server),
and then as files are added/updated, the Vault server would automatically
call the filter to obtain property definitions and values.

Jeff

wrote in message news:5140170@discussion.autodesk.com...
I want to add documents from a CAD/CAM system into the Vault. I would like
some or all of the metadata stored with the documents to be visible in
"custom views". The metadata is stored as elements within an XML document
(although with a .drg rather than a .xml extension). Is this possible, and
if so, how?

[Anonymous]

Thanks - that looks exactly what I'm looking for. I'll give it a try...