topic Re: Added aspect OK but value not showing in UI in Alfresco Archive

Added aspect OK but value not showing in UI

richardgunderse — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:00:40 GMT

HiI've got a custom aspect containing one property ('popularity'). In the UI I can see 'Popularity' on the properties page of a document I added. The value is blank.My Java then tries to populate this value which I do with the following code1) Get the reference to the document (docId is the filename

Re: Added aspect OK but value not showing in UI

richardgunderse — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:15:41 GMT

After I add my aspect, even though nothing appears on the Properties screen , if I do a search for my document again, and loop through the columns that come back, I do actually see my property value. It's stored under things like:

row 0: {}inxight.cars_x003a_myAspect_x003a_popularity = Quite Popular #7
row 0: {}inxight.cars_x003a_popularity = Quite Popular #4
row 0: {}ix_x003a_popularity = Quite Popular #5
row 0: {ix}popularity = Quite Popular #2
row 0: {inxight.cars}popularity = Quite Popular #8
row 0: {}popularity = Quite Popular #3

So my value is being stored somewhere but obviously not where the web interface is looking.

My name space is configured as follows

    <namespaces>
        <namespace uri="inxight.cars" prefix="ix"/>
    </namespaces>‍‍‍

And my Aspect is defined like this

    <aspects>
       <aspect name="ix:myAspect">
          <title>My Aspect</title>
          <properties>
             <property name="ix:popularity">
                <type>d:text</type>
                <mandatory>true</mandatory>
             </property>
          </properties>
       </aspect>
    </aspects> 

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I think there is some mismatch between how I set the property in the aspect, and the name that the UI is using to look it up.

Would be very grateful for any advice

Re: Added aspect OK but value not showing in UI

richardgunderse — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:59:12 GMT

I found it! In case it helps anyone else, here is what I had to do.

Basically, I was using variations of my own namespace, but for the properties, you seem to have to prefix it with the standard Alfresco one.

Note the namespace I am now using (http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0) below

      // Setting a property
      NamedValue[] props = new NamedValue[1];
      props[0] = Utils.createNamedValue("{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}popularity", "Quite Popular #9");      
      String aspectString = Constants.createQNameString("inxight.cars", "myAspect");
      //CMLAddAspect addAspect = new CMLAddAspect(aspectString, specificationProps, new Predicate(new Reference[] { reference }, null, null), "1");
      CMLAddAspect addAspect = new CMLAddAspect();
      addAspect.setProperty(props);
      addAspect.setAspect(aspectString);
      addAspect.setWhere(new Predicate(new Reference[] {reference}, STORE, null));
   
      
      CML cml = new CML();
      cml.setAddAspect(new CMLAddAspect[] { addAspect });
      UpdateResult[] results = null;
      try {
         results = WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService().update(cml);
         System.out.println("Aspect Added");
      } catch (RepositoryFault e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (RemoteException e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
      }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Now when I look at my document properties through the user interface, it has a value ('Quite popular #9').

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