topic WebForms generated data and referential integrity in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/webforms-generated-data-and-referential-integrity/m-p/190779#M143909 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hallo everybody,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am evaluating the WCM that comes with the latest labs releases (3b and 3c) and I'm wondering</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>how to enforce referential integrity regarding content generated by webforms.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>An example from the samples would be "AnArticle.xml" (as in article.xsd) referencing a photo</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>by&nbsp; URI.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I see nothing stopping me deleting the photo referenced.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As far as I can tell now, alfresco does not yet provide an out of the box solution for the labs releases.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Am I missing something ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the suggested approach for enforcing referential integrity on data generated by forms ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Andreas</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:27:51 GMT deas0815 2008-12-17T21:27:51Z WebForms generated data and referential integrity https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/webforms-generated-data-and-referential-integrity/m-p/190779#M143909 Hallo everybody,I am evaluating the WCM that comes with the latest labs releases (3b and 3c) and I'm wonderinghow to enforce referential integrity regarding content generated by webforms.An example from the samples would be "AnArticle.xml" (as in article.xsd) referencing a photoby&nbsp; URI.I see nothing Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:27:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/webforms-generated-data-and-referential-integrity/m-p/190779#M143909 deas0815 2008-12-17T21:27:51Z Re: WebForms generated data and referential integrity https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/webforms-generated-data-and-referential-integrity/m-p/190780#M143910 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This is actually a limitation of the XML technologies Alfresco WCM uses for content modeling - more specifically XSD et al have no notion of "referential integrity" between separate XML documents [1].</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That said we are well aware of the value of referential integrity (at least for references between the assets that are managed by Alfresco), and there has been quite a bit of internal discussion about how it might be supported without going too far beyond the existing XML specifications.&nbsp; There's also an enhancement request in JIRA (</SPAN><A href="http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ENH-294" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ENH-294</A><SPAN>) that's tracking this request - I'd encourage you to vote and/or comment on it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Peter</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[1] Note: I've ignored the XLink and XPointer specifications, since neither have been updated in several years let alone widely adopted.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:39:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/webforms-generated-data-and-referential-integrity/m-p/190780#M143910 pmonks 2008-12-17T22:39:36Z