Hello all,

I am trying to use an advance smart parameter in a custom action. How do I get the unencrypted value to be able to use it in my action? Trying to construct a connection string.

Thanks,

Bob

Hi Bob,

This has been a bugbear of ours for a long time. There's currently no ootb way of decrypting values in a custom action (or if there is, I don't know about it!):

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/custom-code-unable-decrypt-encrypted-strings-ibm-datacap-taskmaster-capture

I have opened a feature request here:

https://dba.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-149

This is now marked for Future Consideration, and could probably be resolved by us writing a customisation but in 2023 I do feel that it should be in the core product.

Community: if there is a way to achieve this in Datacap 9.1.9, please let us know.

Many thanks,

Shaun

Hello all,

I am trying to use an advance smart parameter in a custom action. How do I get the unencrypted value to be able to use it in my action? Trying to construct a connection string.

Thanks,

Bob

Thanks Shaun for your reply,

I was afraid that would be the answer. They give the ability to encrypt but not decrypt. I think that is the equivalent to a write only data field ;o). Their actions can decrypt it such as the FileNet export.

Guess I will have to write my on encryption and add the decryption  in my action until they add this to the product.

Thanks again for your information,

Bob

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Bob Moores

Original Message:
Sent: Wed November 01, 2023 05:24 AM
From: Shaun McDowall
Subject: Datacap advance smart parameter using encrypted value

Hi Bob,

This has been a bugbear of ours for a long time. There's currently no ootb way of decrypting values in a custom action (or if there is, I don't know about it!):

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/custom-code-unable-decrypt-encrypted-strings-ibm-datacap-taskmaster-capture

I have opened a feature request here:

https://dba.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-149

This is now marked for Future Consideration, and could probably be resolved by us writing a customisation but in 2023 I do feel that it should be in the core product.

Community: if there is a way to achieve this in Datacap 9.1.9, please let us know.

Many thanks,

Shaun

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Shaun McDowall

Original Message:
Sent: Tue October 31, 2023 11:56 AM
From: Bob Moores
Subject: Datacap advance smart parameter using encrypted value

Hello all,

I am trying to use an advance smart parameter in a custom action. How do I get the unencrypted value to be able to use it in my action? Trying to construct a connection string.

Thanks,

Bob

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Bob Moores
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