topic Intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect and Copying in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170079#M123409 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What is the intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect, and what is 'special' about it?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The implementation of the repository ensures that a copy operation does not copy the Author aspect </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>onto the destination node and the source code ( CopyServiceImpl.class ) contains the following comment:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>// Do nothing since the author aspect should not be copied<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are left to guess why: I have no idea, and there doesn't appear any explanation of what might</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>be special about the intended semantics of this aspect anywhere in the documentation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I had assumed that this aspect was intended to signify the name of the author of the content as</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>opposed to the creator of the node in the repository (rather like the distinction between the</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>'From:' and 'Sender:' email headers, but this behaviour is the opposite of what would be required</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>in this case. It certainly makes the automatic extraction of the 'Author' from a document pretty</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>useless!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:26:50 GMT sacco 2008-03-18T22:26:50Z Intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect and Copying https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170079#M123409 What is the intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect, and what is 'special' about it?The implementation of the repository ensures that a copy operation does not copy the Author aspect onto the destination node and the source code ( CopyServiceImpl.class ) contains the following comment:// Do nothin Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:26:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170079#M123409 sacco 2008-03-18T22:26:50Z Re: Intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect and Copying https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170080#M123410 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Nobody has any idea?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 May 2008 00:26:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170080#M123410 sacco 2008-05-21T00:26:57Z Re: Intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect and Copying https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170081#M123411 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I would appreciate an answer as well.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:39:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170081#M123411 vk 2014-04-29T13:39:00Z Re: Intended semantics of the 'Author' aspect and Copying https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170082#M123412 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Which alfresco version are you using? new version dose not have this problem.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:29:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/intended-semantics-of-the-author-aspect-and-copying/m-p/170082#M123412 kaynezhang 2014-04-30T03:29:06Z