topic Need help on best practices in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-help-on-best-practices/m-p/219448#M172578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all and thanks in advance for your help.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am using Alfresco 3.2 and I am looking for advice on the best plan for passing documents around.&nbsp; It seems like there are two ways: by path and by noderef.&nbsp; There also seems to be something called the "current document" which I really don't get.&nbsp; I am writing links (buttons, calls from AJAX code, whatever) that will go to web scripts which will edit certain aspects, manage workflow, etc. on a passed document.&nbsp; So, it seems to me that I will be passing some reference to a document to each of these scripts.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The nodeRef seems like an obvious choice since (I assume) it is fixed in size and won't have any unexpected symbols (apart from colon and slash) and apparently I can simply do new Node(nodeRef) to get the node.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However it seems like a lot of people are using the full path to the document and then using userhome.childByNamePath(documentPath) to find the document's node.&nbsp; The path, however, seems like it could potentially be very long indeed, and could have any random foreign character or symbol in it, and so I would have to use POST methods to send this to the script.&nbsp; This doesn't seem like the best plan.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And maybe there is something fundamental that I'm missing, because when I look at some of the built-in web scripts they seem to not have any parameters passed in yet clearly they do work to a document.&nbsp; Maybe they are using this "current document" thing that I've read references to, but haven't yet read anything clearly describing what this is.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Note that I'm just learning Alfresco, so I may be missing something fundamental here.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:12:50 GMT sgartner 2010-03-02T08:12:50Z Need help on best practices https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-help-on-best-practices/m-p/219448#M172578 Hi all and thanks in advance for your help.I am using Alfresco 3.2 and I am looking for advice on the best plan for passing documents around.&nbsp; It seems like there are two ways: by path and by noderef.&nbsp; There also seems to be something called the "current document" which I really don't get.&nbsp; I am wri Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:12:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-help-on-best-practices/m-p/219448#M172578 sgartner 2010-03-02T08:12:50Z Re: Need help on best practices https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-help-on-best-practices/m-p/219449#M172579 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I got this from a friend:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For what it’s worth, I have settled down on doing the following:</SPAN><BR /><UL>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I use noderef when ever I can. Especially when a doc ref as an argument between web scripts. Noderef, as you state, is shorter, and it remains the same even if the document moves. The Utilities object has a handy routine to get the ScriptNode object that has a given noderef (see <A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/3.2_JavaScript_API#Utility_Functions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/3.2_JavaScript_API#Utility_Functions</A>) utils.GetNodeFromString(&lt;noderef&gt;).<BR />2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I do use paths, and childByNamePath(), or childrenByXPath() when I want to do simple searches, or grab a directory to iterate through. <BR /><UL>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are cases where I know the directory name I want to iterate through, but not the noderef.<BR />b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are rare cases where I know the filename and where it is, but not the noderef. <BR />c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally, there are cases where I want to search for files matching a given criteria.</UL>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have written only a couple of small scripts that act as either document actions, or as view templates for a document. In these two cases, Alfresco sets the ‘document’ object for me. However, the bulk of the time, the scrip is not working on a specific document, so the document object is not set.</UL></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:28:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-help-on-best-practices/m-p/219449#M172579 sgartner 2010-03-03T00:28:56Z