topic Would it be possible to rename the documentLibrary folder? in Alfresco Archive

Would it be possible to rename the documentLibrary folder?

gronfelt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:19:45 GMT

Is it possible to rename the documentLibrary folder in a site, or would that mess something up? I've performed a simple test and it seems to be working, but I'm a bit worried that I might cause any future problems.

Re: Would it be possible to rename the documentLibrary folder?

mikeh — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:53:38 GMT

First question: why would you want to? (genuine question…)

You can, but you have to search/replace each occurrence of "documentLibrary" in the template instance files in Share (assuming you're on v3.2)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Would it be possible to rename the documentLibrary folder?

gronfelt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:12:03 GMT

It's all about internationalization. My users will sometimes work with their files through the WebDAV interface, meaning that they will be exposed to the real folder names and it would look a bit neater with the Swedish names.

Of course this means that I would also have to change some other folder names, such as calendar and discussions for instance.'

I'm not sure what files you mean by "template instance files", which files do I need to look for?

(At the moment I'm trying to grasp how the Alfresco/Share files are organized, a somewhat overwhelming task.)

Re: Would it be possible to rename the documentLibrary folder?

mikeh — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:57:33 GMT

Look at the config files in site-data/template-instances. This is where the container is set for the Document Library components.

For completeness, you'll also need to update the containerId setting in the .get.html.ftl files, as well as the defaults being set in the client-side JavaScript files, hoever these two steps shouldn't be necessary.

You might find some other places where "documentLibrary" is unintentionally hard-coded, or we haven't yet implemented a dynamic value throughout the code. Easiest way to is do case-sensitive search for "documentLibrary" and change all those that look like they're referring to a "container".

Thanks,
Mike