topic Adding custom categories in Alfresco Archive

Adding custom categories

dd090 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:43:35 GMT

Hi, I want to add some custom categories to our existing alfresco application.I would prefer to do this in a way that I can do this only once (I mean not via the admin gui) and not via an sql script which adds these in the database.Is there any way to do this ?I tried to add our custom categories to

Re: Adding custom categories

jbarmash — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:55:39 GMT

categories.xml is only loaded once, upon the initial startup / bootstrapping of the server. You have two options:

1. Delete the db / file system and start the server with the new categories.xml - that should make your
2. Package up your categories as a part of a module, and bootstrap it as part of that module.

This page has a bit more information about categories (although some of it is a bit too detailed for what you need).

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Classification_And_Categories

Re: Adding custom categories

dd090 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:14:26 GMT

Thanks jbarmash.
I did not clean the database. That was my missing link.

Re: Adding custom categories

maraki — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:02:15 GMT

Hello!

I try to do the same thing… but I do not see my new categories.
Could you give me some more information about how I can clean the database?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Adding custom categories

dd090 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:32:39 GMT

This depends on the database you are using.
Try dropping it completely (the database). Alfresco should re-create it upon next restart (like it did during first install) or there should be a script somewhere to re-create it.

Hope this helps.

Re: Adding custom categories

maraki — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:30:25 GMT

Thanks for your help.
I use MySQL.
I coundn't found how to drop the database.

Finally I found another way that works, by re-instaling tomocat, but I would interested in founding how to drop or clean the database.
I would appreciate it, if you had any further information about the above or if you could specify the path of the database.

Re: Adding custom categories

jbarmash — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:13:23 GMT

in INSTALLATION\extras\databases\mysql\ of tomcat directory, we have db_remove.sql (and correpsonding .bat file on windows). It drops the database from MySQL. After that, to recreate the db, run db_setup.sql or .bat file.

Re: Adding custom categories

emrbridge — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:57:38 GMT

I am new to Alfresco and have set up my basic structure but am unable to set up custom categories. There is nothing on Alfresco Help that I can find. There are lots of exchanges/posts on the forum but nothing that shows how to add custom categories using the admin gui. Can you please tell me how to do it or where the instructions reside. If you cannot do it through the admin gui, then please push me to instructions on how to do it on the backend.

Thank you,

Jay