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Activating a property type(metadata) based on other type

prateekgoyal — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:35:42 GMT

Hello All,I was creating some custom content model and i felt with the need of activating any property based on the value of other property in that content model. For e.g. I have created "Letter" custom document type and in that created some custom properties like "Letter number" "Letter Date" "Mode

Re: Activating a property type(metadata) based on other type

rwetherall — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:50:28 GMT

Hi,

Setting the value of one meta-data property based on the value of an another can be achieved by writing a custom behaviour. The custom behaviour could be triggered when the property is changed and could then set the other property value accordingly.

Cheers,
Roy

Re: Activating a property type(metadata) based on other type

prateekgoyal — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:33:27 GMT

Hi, can you give me one example for the same.

Thanks,

Re: Activating a property type(metadata) based on other type

rwetherall — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:07:27 GMT

Hi,

The Alfresco SDK (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SDK_3.3) has an example of developing a custom aspect and behaviours.

Cheers,
Roy