https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/boolean-properties-error-in-2-9-bug/m-p/164618#M118350 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm not sure it is a bug in 2.9, but I've got a template that used working in 2.1 and now is not.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've defined a boolean property in the model in this way:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="bw:signedByEveryone"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type&gt;d:boolean&lt;/type&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;default&gt;false&lt;/default&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>The javascript workflow engine work as usual, since the default is false, and the workflow set it to true in a step, thenhe node browser say it is true.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But both in the property dialog and in my freemarker template accessing the property gives the Exception:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Error on line 8, column 15 in workspace://SpacesStore/e65a20de-4759-11dc-b55f-6dccf9e3a828<BR />Expecting a boolean (true/false) expression here<BR />Expression child.properties["{it.broadwaysolutions}signedByEveryone"] does not evaluate to true/false <BR />it is an instance of freemarker.template.SimpleScalar</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>The debugger states that the object being evaluated is a SimpleScalar whose value is the String "true"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>can anyone tell me if there is a known workaround (or if I'm missing something)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alex</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:15 GMT ale_carraro 2008-02-26T09:21:15Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/boolean-properties-error-in-2-9-bug/m-p/164618#M118350 I'm not sure it is a bug in 2.9, but I've got a template that used working in 2.1 and now is not.I've defined a boolean property in the model in this way:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="bw:signedByEveryone"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type&gt;d:boolean&lt;/type&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;default&gt;false&lt;/d Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/boolean-properties-error-in-2-9-bug/m-p/164618#M118350 ale_carraro 2008-02-26T09:21:15Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/boolean-properties-error-in-2-9-bug/m-p/164619#M118351 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>ok, I found the solution:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>in the workflow I set the property to "true" instead of true. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, in 2.1 it worked also setting the boolean property as a string, while in 2.9 it does not.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can't understand why setting a string to a boolean property don't throw an exception in the workflow if it is going to do it later… i hate script languages… :wink:</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:13:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/boolean-properties-error-in-2-9-bug/m-p/164619#M118351 ale_carraro 2008-02-26T11:13:31Z