Extracting doc number information from dox saved in DMS

Question

Hello,
I'm wanting to have a macro written that will put a document id into the
footer of saved documents when the appropriate button is pushed.
I know I can use the standard Word "Insert | Autotext | Header/Footer |
Filename or Filename and path but when I do that, I get something like
this:
::ODMAGRPWISEDOMAIN_AUS_DOM.POSTOFFICE_AUS_PO.Offi ce Administration:9055.1
whereas the powers-that-be want something like this:
OA:9055.1
and nothing else. (The "OA" bit is the short version of Office
Administration)
I have a developer who thinks he may be able to pull this together, but he
has posed this question:
Is there a way to retrieve the profile information from Groupwise for a
document that is currently open on screen?
Using GW7, SP2 on NetWare 6.5, SP6.
TIA,
Catherine

Answer 1

I think if you insert the filename with the option to include the path name,
you will get the ODMA string with the doc number at the end (assuming the
document has been saved and already has been assigned a doc number). Can
you parse that somehow? I did this a long time ago in WP but not Word.
Seems to me you should be able to record a macro to do that.
"Catherine" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:D11Ri.13735$[email protected]. .
> No, we can't get anything at the moment (unless we type it in the footer
> of the document manually...using a keyboard.....ooh, manual labour!). We
> can see what we want to get on the profile screen of a document's
> properties when the document is open - but we don't know how to go about
> getting that information so it can be plonked into the footer of a
> document in Word. So the question is: Can you retrieve the profile
> information from Groupwise for a document that is currently open on
> screen?
>
> Confused? Yeah, me too!
>
> It's beginning to sound a bit too hard....
>
> Cheers,
> Cat
>
>
>
> Dave Parkes wrote:
>> I'm missing something here, you want
>>
>> OA:2870.1
>>
>> and you can get
>>
>> 2870-1.doc
>>
>> so, after juggling the current filename, you'd get what you want,
>> wouldn't you ?
>>
>> Cheers Dave
>>