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Problem in moving documents using rules

ajaywazir — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:25:32 GMT

HiWe have the following folders in a space:librarylibrary/bookslibrary/datasheetsall folders have a rule that all incoming content is made versionable (add aspect)library has two additional rules 1 all pdf files would be moved to library/books2 all other files would be moved to library/datasheetsIn

Re: Problem in moving documents using rules

mikef — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:11:10 GMT

Rather than use the standard move action, you can create a script that gets run by your rule that has the relevant logic to handle the the move and auto-create of the folders.

See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API for details on the JavaScript API.

Re: Problem in moving documents using rules

ajaywazir — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:05:22 GMT

Hi MIke,
Thanks
Will try.
Is there anyway to pass argruements to scripts?
e.g I would like to pass the name of the destination folder?

Ajay

Re: Problem in moving documents using rules

ajaywazir — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:37:28 GMT

Hi
One question ;
using javascript
Is there a way to update content after being checkedout?
I could not find any reference to this; while we can check in and check out, we cannot update;
my application is as follows
Instead of using normal web based check out update file and check in;
I want to automate the process via approval workflow process.

Consider the following scenario:

Drafts folder will have working copies of documents and files would be created or modified via Webdav
Once done, the documents will be sent for approval.
Once approved the documents would be converted to pdf & moved to Approved folder.
Documents would automatically be moved from approved folder to Released Folder using Javascript as discussed above
In Released Folder there would older released versions of same file. So, I would need to check out, update or overwrite and check in
I do not want to lose released document history since this folder would be used to expose read only pdf copies to users with document history

Ajay