Can anyone please instruct me in how can I make the project (both workstation and server) to write / read another DICOM attribute when working with xml files? (sending / retrieving studies, importing studies, etc)

somewhere the default instance tags that are operated in xml are defined, where is that?

eg: 093223 is one of the common tags in xml files, I need to be able to add different tags as well

thank you

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish, but there's a class passed to the routines that create the study XML file that set the parameters for creation of the file. In the ImageServer at least there are some configuration options that are used to set these values.

The actual options for setting what tags are included are fairly limited. Theres's 3 options that set if all private tags are included/excluded, if tags that are encoded as UN VR are included/excluded, and a setting that sets if "large" tags (that exceed a configured size) are included/excluded from the file.

In your case you was a private attribute included in the XML. You could just turn on private attributes in the XML file and this tag would then be included if it exists.

One word of caution. The XML processing stuff is one of the weak spots of the ImageServer, specifically how it relates to processing studies that have a large number of slices. If you turn on the inclusion of private attributes, be prepared for processing times to slow down if you have large multi-slice studies on your system.

Steve