topic Re: Authoring Client Field Validation/Restriction? in Alfresco Archive

Authoring Client Field Validation/Restriction?

scottf — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:33:01 GMT

Hi,Is there anyway to validate and restrict what can be entered in certain fields in the web client?I am using labs3c including WCM and would like to be able to add some restrictions to the 'create web content' wizard.For example, in the first screen of the 'create web content' wizard I would like t

Re: Authoring Client Field Validation/Restriction?

scottf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:31:33 GMT

Anyone here?

Re: Authoring Client Field Validation/Restriction?

tommorris — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:42:39 GMT

Hi there,

I think the value that you're talking about is (often) destined to become the name of the XMl node (cm:name).
The ultimate decision as to what the node is called is deterimed through the output path expression.
This expression is a freemarker expression, and so you could have something like:

/${webapp}/mypath/${name?lower_case}.xml

It doesn't prevent the user from entering uppercase characters, but it does ignore them.

Tom
http://www.ixxus.com

Re: Authoring Client Field Validation/Restriction?

scottf — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:12:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply Tom, and yes you are correct in what I am referring to.

Your idea is interesting, however it is not sufficient as I really wanted to restrict the user from entering uppercase characters for example in the first place, not ignore them after the fact.

Hopefully an alfresco engineer may be browsing these forums and can answer this question

Thanks again.

Hi there,

I think the value that you're talking about is (often) destined to become the name of the XMl node (cm:name).
The ultimate decision as to what the node is called is deterimed through the output path expression.
This expression is a freemarker expression, and so you could have something like:

/${webapp}/mypath/${name?lower_case}.xml

It doesn't prevent the user from entering uppercase characters, but it does ignore them.

Tom
http://www.ixxus.com