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Custom dashlet: list documents contained in a Space

theorbix — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:33:56 GMT

Hello, I would like to develop a "parametric dashlet" that will display the list of documents contained in any valid Space, passing the Space unique name (or unique ID) as a parameter of the Dashlet. Is such a thing possible?So far I've developed a prototype Dashlet that uses a very simple freemarke

Re: Custom dashlet: list documents contained in a Space

lnfalandino — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:41:42 GMT

While I haven't done such a thing, I wanted to give this idea another vote of support. I'd like to do something similar and if anyone has any thoughts I'd be happy to hear them.

This isn't a top priority for me, but I will be looking into it myself in the future.

Re: Custom dashlet: list documents contained in a Space

theorbix — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:35:53 GMT

While I haven't done such a thing, I wanted to give this idea another vote of support. I'd like to do something similar and if anyone has any thoughts I'd be happy to hear them.
This isn't a top priority for me, but I will be looking into it myself in the future.

Yes I do believe that this would be a useful general purpose enhancement for the Alfresco Web Client. "Parametric dashlets" would be something pretty useful, in a way similar to the way parametric portlets can be used in most web portal frameworks.

I'm also pretty sure that someone with enough knowledge of the Web Client internals and JSF can implement this enhancement and contribute it back. Unfortunately I'm not a great Java developer, otherwise I would have tried by myself…

By the way, the only progress I've made so far is a slighly more elegant way of browsing the content a space in a Dashlet. You can see the details on this post http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12006. The code is simply a bit cleaner than the one shown above…

Another enhancement is that now the Freemarker script is stored in the Alfresco repository, and not in Tomcat. So it's much easier to edit the "path" of the space to display in case I want my Dashlet to display the content of a different space.

Unfortunately, to have 3 dashlet listing the content of three different spaces (e.g. "Marketing stuff", "Offers", "HR Documentation"), I will have to create three copies of the same dashlet config files, and three almost identical Freemarker scripts (one for each space): a bit cumbersome, but better than nothing…

Re: Custom dashlet: list documents contained in a Space

rafaelscg — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:28:10 GMT

You can use <#macro> to make a recursive template and get all spaces what you want.