topic Re: Add 'specific' properties in Alfresco Archive

Add 'specific' properties

maraki — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:05:41 GMT

Hello!I 'd like to add some properties but there are some difficulties…If you add a file and then you click details, it appears a page that includes properties (such as name, content type, encoding,author, size etc) . I found that the file which is responsible for the properties is here: tomcat\weba

Re: Add 'specific' properties

loftux — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:21:40 GMT

First have a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide
There you will find explanation of how to add new content types and aspects.
And have a look at http://ecmarchitect.com/ there are some nice tutorials there.

Then when you have created your new aspects, add them to specific content types using rules.
In your rule, you can specify that it only applies for a certain mime type.

Peter LÃ¶fgren

Re: Add 'specific' properties

maraki — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:32:01 GMT

I tried to add new content types and aspects but it didn't work. I followed the instructions at this article
http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-content/content-article.pdf

Could you give me an example of how the code should be in order to add some more properties which will be depended on the kind of the file that is added?

Thank you in advance!

Re: Add 'specific' properties

loftux — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:44:41 GMT

What do you mean by it didn't work?
Do you have errors when starting Alfresco, or do they not show up?

Rules is added using the client. Using rules you can base them on certain mime types as said, then you either choose to ad an aspect using your rule, our you choose specialise type of item. But in order for your custom types and aspects to show up in the rule wizard, you have to make sure you have configured web-client-config-custom.xml correctly. This should be in the tutorial you have been working through or in the link to data dictionary.

Peter

Re: Add 'specific' properties

maraki — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:28:21 GMT

They don t show up…
I also tried the exampleModel.xml and example-model-context.xml (according to the tutorial) but i didn t show the results.
Also i tried to drop the database and re-built it but it hadn t any result..

Have you got any idea about what may be the problem???

Thank you!

Re: Add 'specific' properties

jzulu2000 — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:04:23 GMT

I had the same problem, but it was my mistake.
I forgot to uncomment the lines that shows the elements in the Content Wizards, Action Wizards, etc in the web-client-config-custom.xml; they all come commented by default and I didn't realize that because I was using a non-colored editor… I lost about 8hours in that.. jajaja so bad!