I have made some modifications to our Data Card for office files. In the field for Document Name, I have the variable FileName. When I create a new Office file (Excel, Word, etc.) this field will popuilate with the document name (i.e. EC1234). But for existing Office files, it will not pick-up this information. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
so, how can i make the field populate for existing files? even if i check them out, open them, save them, then check them back in...it still does not update.
Whoa geez. That's a tough one.
If you don't care about the history of the documents, you could move them out of the vault, then put them back in.
If you do care, I think you're looking at either doing it manually or with API.
that is what I was thinking as well....
Don't know if it would be much help, but you could setup a quick workflow transition to capture the docuemtn name and write it to variable. Not sure how you would implement it, but it's there.
I am guessing you are setting the default value to be the document name? If so that is your issue. The default value is only used when a card is created, it does not go back and retroactively change existing datacards.