topic Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile in Alfresco Archive

Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

risenhoover — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:19:45 GMT

Hi all,Here's another problem that has vexed me for the last few weeks. The background is that I'd like to store some extra information about users in the profile, beyond what Alfresco offers. This is with Alfresco Enterprise 2.2.0I created a custom type that descends from the standard cmerson,

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

mikeh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:59:40 GMT

Did you try properties["d3:telephone"] ?

Mike

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

risenhoover — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:42:27 GMT

Yes.


Error during processing of the template 'Expression my_person.properties["d3:telephone"] is undefined on line 7, column 15 in test/profile/profile.get.xml.ftl.'. Please contact your system administrator.‍‍

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

mikeh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:59:14 GMT

Ok. Try using the node browser from the JSF client and see what properties are on that person node.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

risenhoover — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:30:06 GMT

Ok, so this is a little disconcerting. I went to the node browser and drilled down through the user://alfrescoUserStore space and found the container that contains sixteen children, which corresponds to the size of my estimated user list.

When I click on each of them, I get the same user. If I traverse back up, and then back down, and click on a user, I get a different user for each of the children. Rinse, wash, repeat.

I've rebuilt my Lucene indices already once today and the only user management I've performed since then is to change a user's password, so what could be causing this?

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

mikeh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:15:44 GMT

You're not using the back button or a new browser tab/window to follow the child links are you? You have to click through the node browser using <click>child<click>link to parent<click>2nd child, etc.

The way to check if you're really looking at the child node you expect is to check the nodeRef of the current record at the top.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

risenhoover — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:45:22 GMT

Yes I was using the back button….

Ok so when I examine my user node, I do not see any of the extra fields I defined. If I execute a POST command on the profile that specializes the cmerson to a d3erson and then adds the extra field, it does not throw an error. However, that new attribute still does not show up in the node browser.

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

mikeh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:49:57 GMT

Did you remember to call my_person.save() ?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Cannot Access Custom Fields in Profile

risenhoover — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:04:57 GMT

I'm doing it on the POST but not on the GET.