topic Re: Display content type in Alfresco Archive

Display content type

robby — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:02:42 GMT

Hi all,it's possible displaying the content type of a file in a freemarker template??Smthing like:<#list space.children as child> <#if child.isDocument> ${child.properties.type} </#if> </#list>In a list of documents it's useful show the type of a document.Bes

Re: Display content type

robby — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:08:58 GMT

with:
${document.type}
it return smthing like:
{myNameSpaseURI}typeName

Show this information isn't useful for the user…
It's possible show the title associated to type???

Robert

Re: Display content type

dhalupa — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:11:09 GMT

I do not think this is possible out of the box, but if you have basic java knowledge it is relatively easy to extend javascript api with your own utility class which will provide such functionality

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#Adding_Custom_Script_APIs

Kind regards,

Denis

Re: Display content type

mabayona — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:55:20 GMT

I had such problem and, since the API does not provide with the possibility to show the title (this should be a JIRA feature request):

I added a little extra code (if .. then .. elseif…else) in the template that does the conversion between type: mymodel:invoice and the types title: Invoice.

It is a litle bit ugly but it does the trick and it is esay and quick.

Re: Display content type

robby — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:36:59 GMT

Print your code plz..

Regards

Robert

Re: Display content type

sacco — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:42 GMT

It's not quite clear to me what is the exact problem here: is the MIME
type of the content not sufficient? e.g.:

<table ><tbody >
<#list space.children as child>
<#if child.isDocument>
<tr >
<td >${child.name}</td>
<td >${child.mimetype}</td>
</tr>
</#if>
</#list> 
</tbody></table>
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N.B. make sure you wrap code like this with enough checks for
existence and non-null values to keep Freemarker happy — I've left them
out for clarity.

Is it that you want to display a more 'friendly' name for the type, e.g.
"PDF document"?

Re: Display content type

dhalupa — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:17:51 GMT

It is alfresco object type title which is needed, not mime type