topic How to copy a list of associations??? in Alfresco Archive

How to copy a list of associations???

motion11 — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:19:09 GMT

Hi,Is there any way in Alfresco to copy a list of associations from one document to another??This is my situation: I have a document that has an association in it's model definition with the following code:<association name="zisistributionList"> <title>Distribution List&l

Re: How to copy a list of associations???

dgenard — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:57:32 GMT

Try the node method

    createAssociation(ScriptNode target, string assocType)‍

This method is not supported by older Alfresco releases however (before 2.1 if I remember well).

Details on http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#Modifying_and_Creating_API

Denis

Re: How to copy a list of associations???

motion11 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:30:37 GMT

Thanks for the reply Denis, but that didn't solve the problem either. The method you suggested creates the association, but that is not what I'm trying do to. Because, when the association is created I still have to copy the data from another file.
I found out that this is actually not possible from JavaScript. Association field in the content has only read method in JavaScript. Instead, I will have to dig into Alfresco Java SDK and try to solve the problem by writing some Java code and deploying it onto the server.
I'm still in the process of figuring out how to achieve my goal through Java. If you have any helpful ideas or suggestions please let me know.

Thanks anyway!!

Tom

Re: How to copy a list of associations???

dgenard — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:03:45 GMT

Are you sure ?
node.assocs is indeed read-only.
node.createAssociation will create an association to the target node.
By iterating on the source node assocs collection, you should be able to copy the assocations collections.

Denis