topic Re: About Transformation of Contents in Alfresco Archive

About Transformation of Contents

joel18 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:27:26 GMT

Hello everyone, When I am using Alfresco, I meet an emergent problem. The problem is that when I upload a Doc file and want to transform a Doc file to PDF file, I don't want to define the destination where I put PDF file. I can post files transformed anywhere. For example, I upload a file in

Re: About Transformation of Contents

jbarmash — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:35:08 GMT

The way to do this would be to write another content rule that does not require a space as a parameter. If I were doing that, I'd find where in the source the transformation action happens, copy that out of alfresco, rename files to avoid clashes, modify the code. Then I'd package it as an extension and override the configuration files to point to your new action.

Does that make sense? Since you have access to the source, and you can add new actions, you take the action out of alfresco source, and customize for your needs.

Re: About Transformation of Contents

joel18 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:19:46 GMT

Thank you. I wil try to change the action code. But in SDK, which java file should I change and rebuild?

Re: About Transformation of Contents

jbarmash — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:07 GMT

It's not the SDK that you should be looking at, but the original source code of the product - find the files related to the transformation, as well as related config files. Copy them out int a separate place.

I believe SDK has an example of action - you should use the infrastructure there (i.e. CustomAction Sample's build file and file layout perhaps). Move files from line above into it, and use that sample for Eclipse Project and build files. Hope this gets you on the path.

Re: About Transformation of Contents

joel18 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:54:45 GMT

Thank you very much. But the type of files we need to correct is xml or ohters?

Re: About Transformation of Contents

jbarmash — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:09:07 GMT

Thank you very much. But the type of files we need to correct is xml or ohters?

Java to modify the functionality and xml to point alfresco at the new code. Also, probably the related JSP files.