Hi Madison,

I have to make a couple assumptions here like

• Understanding the Logical-Version-Language paradigm, so in turn logical linking
• Publications have a Baseline object which turns does the Version level selection
• And the language level can be either source language or target language

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the reply, it was very helpful!

I'm encountering some difficulties when trying to access the FISHLINKS metadata field for a map. When I run the code snippet below, it prints out the metadata fields for FISHLASTMODIFIEDBY and FSTATUS, but doesn't print anything for FISHLINKS. I can, however, see that the map stored in $content[0] references several topics and images if I click "Reports", then "Referenced topics and images overview for language" through the SDL content manager web client. Do you know why this is occurring?

$folders = Get-IshFolder -ishSession $ishSession -FolderId $folderID -Recurse
$content = $folders | Get-IshFolderContent -IshSession $ishSession

Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FISHLASTMODIFIEDBY -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]
Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FSTATUS -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]
Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FISHLINKS -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]

Thank you,

Madison

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the reply, it was very helpful!

I'm encountering some difficulties when trying to access the FISHLINKS metadata field for a map. When I run the code snippet below, it prints out the metadata fields for FISHLASTMODIFIEDBY and FSTATUS, but doesn't print anything for FISHLINKS. I can, however, see that the map stored in $content[0] references several topics and images if I click "Reports", then "Referenced topics and images overview for language" through the SDL content manager web client. Do you know why this is occurring?

$folders = Get-IshFolder -ishSession $ishSession -FolderId $folderID -Recurse
$content = $folders | Get-IshFolderContent -IshSession $ishSession

Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FISHLASTMODIFIEDBY -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]
Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FSTATUS -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]
Get-IshMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name FISHLINKS -Level Lng -IshObject $content[0]

Thank you,

Madison

Hi Madison,

Every object in the Content Manager system has many fields defined, which are categorized in System (S), Descriptive (D) and Basic (B). Have a look at the difference on https://github.com/sdl/ISHRemote/blob/master/Doc/ReleaseNotes-ISHRemote-0.7.md section "Sample - Descriptive, Basic and All Fields"

You can recognize which fields are part of which group by the SDB column when running Get-IshTypeFieldDefinition

To connect the dots, your Get-IshFolderContent call uses the default value of $ishSession.DefaultRequestedMetadata which is to NOT return system fields like FISHLINK. Hence when you do your lookup, it shows up empty.

The simple way out is to do: $ishSession.DefaultRequestedMetadata = 'All'. This however means you are retrieving literally all fields which has a potential severe performance impact! So okay for a small data set or a one time run.

If you run your script often, I would suggest to explicitly request the specific fields you need by a: Get-IshDocumentObj -IshObject $content -RequestedMetadata (Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -Name FISHLINKS -Level Lng | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField ...)

Small hint on your Get-IshMetadataField usage, since ISHRemote 0.7 you can use the provided PSNoteProperties, see inside https://github.com/sdl/ISHRemote/releases/tag/v0.7 In short you can write: $content[0].fishlinks

Hope this helps,
Dave

My test script eventually...

Thank you Dave, this is exactly what I needed!