topic Re: Controlled vocabulary property in Alfresco Archive

Controlled vocabulary property

lfridael — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:53:11 GMT

Hi,Is there any way to 1) Restrict an Aspect property's value to values within a controlled dictionary?2) Specify that these particular properties are displayed in a property sheet using a list box or combo box populated with the values from the controlled dictionary.I would be grateful for any hint

Re: Controlled vocabulary property

pmonks — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:58:15 GMT

Sounds like you're after "Constraints" - see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Constraints for details.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: Controlled vocabulary property

lfridael — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:05:12 GMT

Thanks for the reply. However, after I made the original posting, I dug a little deeper in the internals of the Repository and the Web Client. What I ended up doing was using standard classifications (categories) to define my controlled vocabularies. The controlled vocabulary properties (of type "d:category") are displayed using a UISelectOne JSF component (in edit mode, that is) by having the web client configured with custom Component Generators and accompanying Converters.

While I'm happy that it works, I do feel it's too involved and too complicated a solution. I came to understand why Alfresco is phasing out the usage of JSF (and thus the Web Client) in the long run.