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Change content type after upload

joshaber — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:39:56 GMT

Hey all, is there a way to change a node's content type after uploading? Either programatically or with a rule or…?Thanks!

Re: Change content type after upload

mabayona — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:58:08 GMT

Yes, as long as the new type is a subtipe, you can execute an action (e.g. asociated to a rule/simple workflow) or manually via web client to change to the new sub type.

This is available as "Run Action" in "details" icon. "Select an action" => And the action is "Specialise the type of an item".

Hope it helps.

Re: Change content type after upload

joshaber — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:13:58 GMT

Ah, I should have seen that. Gracious!

Re: Change content type after upload

arunkr85 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:41:46 GMT

But the Run cation wizard page shows empty combo box

Regards

arun

Re: Change content type after upload

jarrett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:07:59 GMT

Hello,

Make sure to add a section similar to this to web-client-config-custom.xml

            <!– The list of types shown in the is-subtype condition –>
            <subtypes>
               <type name="yg:research"/>
               <type name="yg:marketing"/>
               <type name="yg:survey"/>
               <type name="yg:data"/>
               <type name="yg:consulting"/>
               <type name="yg:doc"/>
            </subtypes>

Adding this will allow the drop down to populate with values.

–js

Re: Change content type after upload

jarrett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:32:41 GMT

Sorry I replied too quickly, its 'specialise type' that you need. It would look similar to:

         <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Action Wizards">
            <specialise-types>
               <type name="yg:research"/>
               <type name="yg:marketing"/>
               <type name="yg:survey"/>
               <type name="yg:data"/>
               <type name="yg:consulting"/>
               <type name="yg:doc"/>
            </specialise-types>
         </config>

my recommendation is to fill out all the config settings for the Action Wizards, it will make like easier and good examples should be in the wiki.

–js

Re: Change content type after upload

arunkr85 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:35:39 GMT

Thanks jarret

I will try it out

NB: Don't reply too quickly

—arun

Re: Change content type after upload

systec — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:12:28 GMT

Hi

While one can specialise the type after upload using the action, is there a way to programmically do this? The javascript API provides a way, via the createNode function, to set the type at node creation but i cannot see anything that allows one to "specialise" the type after creation. Is there an API call that allows this?

In some other similar related topics people have suggested applying a rule against a space to set the type. That solution only fits when all the documents in a particular space are of the same type. I'd like to create a webscript that allows a user to "specialise" the type via Alfresco Share. I was able to use the Actions API to call the "specialise the type of an item" action using a custom script. Next i will try using this script in a webscript…unless of course there is a direct API call that will do the same.


var myAction = actions.create("specialise-type");
myAction.parameters["type-name"] = "{http://www.someco.com/model/content/1.0}doc";
myAction.execute(document)
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Re: Change content type after upload

systec — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:18:52 GMT

I found the ScriptNode API function call that i was looking for -

boolean specializeType(string type)

My apologies, it seems the functionality to allow Share to specialise the type is already available in 3.2. The action is available from within the document details page.

Re: Change content type after upload

jzulu2000 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:22:17 GMT

If I understood the question, you have to change the content type of a node, not the type of a node…

For changing the content type, you can do the following in a script:

document.mimetype = "new/content-type";// i.e. document.mimetype = "application/pdf";

Re: Change content type after upload

chandu7ee — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:07:35 GMT

hey

good one., but here i need to do the same thing in share, while uploading a document in share i need to add some aspects directly to that document., how can i do it.

for example i need to add cm:classifiable aspect to the every document in share while uploding it. can u give the steps to do it.

thanks & regards
Chandu

Re: Change content type after upload

jzulu2000 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:53:47 GMT

Hi

When you add a document into Share, the document is stored in Alfresco; you can create a rule that adds the cm:classifiable aspect when documents are created in space or sub-spaces; if you want to add aspect and put some default values into document properties, maybe you can make a script and create the rule to use such script.

Re: Change content type after upload

chigabiga — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:35:05 GMT

I have my custom content types in alfresco.
How can I add it in "change type" dialog items in share?

Re: Change content type after upload

chandu7ee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:24:08 GMT

I have my custom content types in alfresco.
How can I add it in "change type" dialog items in share?

hey goto <tomcat>\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension

rename the share-config-custom.xml.sample to share-config-custom.xml then search for <types> add your coustom type in that, restart the server.

and then login to share. then u will get a option to select type in dropdown.

Re: Change content type after upload

chigabiga — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:57:30 GMT

Danke, chandu7ee

Re: Change content type after upload

maps — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:28:10 GMT

Hi,

There is a quicker way to upload files with custom types in Alfresco Share.
The solution consists in selecting the document type when uploaing it as in Alfresco Explorer.

You can refer to this article for more details on how to add the "Content type" field to the Alfresco Share upload form:

http://www.iptech-offshore.net/blog/2010/06/15/alfresco-share-tip-content-type-selection-when-uploading-a-document/#more-75