topic Cannot read before/after with onUpdateProperties behaviour. in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-read-before-after-with-onupdateproperties-behaviour/m-p/215177#M168307 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've written a JavaScript-based behaviour to hook into onUpdateProperties for one of my custom types. I would like to take some action when a single property, xx:visibility, changes. I followed the steps outlined in Jeff Potts' excellent guide (</SPAN><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/09/26/770" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/09/26/770</A><SPAN>) and it mostly works, but it seems like Alfresco is not setting the before/after variables as they are "null" in my script. That is, I have this script code:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (behaviour.args.length == 3) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var node = behaviour.args[0];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// "node" is set and I can access its properties, even node.properties['xx:visibility'].<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var before = behaviour.args[1];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var after = behaviour.args[2];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// "before" and "after" are "null" and not useful. They should represent the state of the properties before and after the change.<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>Am I missing something? Are these values not available to JavaScript scripts?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:20:48 GMT lyamamot 2009-07-31T05:20:48Z Cannot read before/after with onUpdateProperties behaviour. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-read-before-after-with-onupdateproperties-behaviour/m-p/215177#M168307 I've written a JavaScript-based behaviour to hook into onUpdateProperties for one of my custom types. I would like to take some action when a single property, xx:visibility, changes. I followed the steps outlined in Jeff Potts' excellent guide (http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/09/26/770) and it Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:20:48 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-read-before-after-with-onupdateproperties-behaviour/m-p/215177#M168307 lyamamot 2009-07-31T05:20:48Z Re: Cannot read before/after with onUpdateProperties behaviour. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-read-before-after-with-onupdateproperties-behaviour/m-p/215178#M168308 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>See </SPAN><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-7506" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-7506</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 May 2012 13:07:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-read-before-after-with-onupdateproperties-behaviour/m-p/215178#M168308 acarpine 2012-05-23T13:07:04Z