topic How to select content type by space name? in Alfresco Archive

How to select content type by space name?

roby71 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:50:24 GMT

Hello,I created a space named "MyBooks"then I created a costum content-typeadding it definition in filecustomModel.xml below the snippest of customModel.xml… <type name="custom:MyBook"> <title>My Books</title> <parent>cm:content</parent> <prop

Re: How to select content type by space name?

roman — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:54:19 GMT

Hi,

I don't know if there is an official way of doin' it but i've done it my way:

You need to customize the upload dialog
i've created new Class XXX extends AddContentDialog

then copied the original add-content.jsp to, lets say: /jsp/dialogs/custom-upload/

and finally created an action (with params, but not needed, i have the same action for different content-types) which calls this dialog

you can override the function getObjectType(), there you can influence what the combobox with the content types delivers.
you can even remove all irrelevant types.

hope this helps

best regards

Re: How to select content type by space name?

rivarola — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:41:21 GMT

Hello,

You can define a rule in your folder to specialize the content type. The document the user creates will be cm:content, but if the rule is not run in background it will get specialized to your specific type before the document property sheet appears, and the user can fill your custom properties.