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Display documents with categories using Templates

aswini — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:29:25 GMT

Hi All,I am trying to create a Presentation Template (Freemarker template) to customise my folder view. On the selected space, the custom view should show the details only for those documents that contain categories. I have written the following FTL template. But, it shows a big vacant space in my c

Re: Display documents with categories using Templates

lotharm — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:21:19 GMT

I think it is possible to iterate just over the direct children of a space with


<#list space.children as child>
….
</#list>
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The freemarker reference page has examples http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/FreeMarker_Template_Cookbook#Documents_in_User.27s_Home_Space_Example

Re: Display documents with categories using Templates

aswini — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:07:43 GMT

Thanks Lothar. That works for me, if 'Allow Categorisation' is not set for the document.

But if I allow categorisation for the document, without assigning any categories, it populates the document name with the Categories space empty in the table.

Can we change the code to show only those documents which have categories assigned to it please.

Eg: It should not look like this
Name: Demos for Training.txt
Last Modified:22 Jan 2009
Categories:

Thanks
Aswini

Re: Display documents with categories using Templates

lotharm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:36:38 GMT

Why not add a not-empty guard?

<#if child.properties["cm:categories"]?size gt 0 >‍

Re: Display documents with categories using Templates

aswini — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:22:40 GMT

Wow!! - That worked.. thank you.