Add properties to the user model?

gronfelt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:10:44 GMT

I'd like to extend the user model with a few custom properties of my own (some booleans).I've read the Wiki page "Data Dictionary Guide", but am still pretty puzzled, since it mostly seems to be about adding new content models. Is that the proper cause of action, to create an entirely new content mo

Re: Add properties to the user model?

jayjayecl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:57:26 GMT

I proceeded as the following :
- create (in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension) a customModel.xml, declaring the properties I needed for the person model
- create (in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/model) a customContentModel.xml, which is almost a copy of the original ContentModel.xml, except the part where I add my aspect to the mandatory ones of cmerson model :

<type name="cm:person">
         <title>Person</title>
         <parent>sys:base</parent>
         <properties>
            <!– The tokenisation set here is ignored - it is fixed for this type –>
            <!– This is so you can not break person lookup –>
            <property name="cm:userName">
               <type>d:text</type>
               <mandatory>true</mandatory>
               <constraints>
                  <constraint ref="cm:userNameConstraint" />
               </constraints>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:homeFolder">
               <type>d:noderef</type>
               <mandatory>true</mandatory>
            </property>
             <property name="cm:firstName">
               <type>d:text</type>
               <mandatory>true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:lastName">
               <type>d:text</type>
               <mandatory>true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:middleName">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:email">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:organizationId">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:homeFolderProvider">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:defaultHomeFolderPath">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:presenceProvider">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:presenceUsername">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:organization">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:jobtitle">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:location">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:persondescription">
               <type>d:content</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:telephone">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:mobile">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companyaddress1">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companyaddress2">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companyaddress3">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companypostcode">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companytelephone">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companyfax">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:companyemail">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:skype">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:instantmsg">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            
            <!– system maintained values –>
            <property name="cm:sizeCurrent">
                <type>d:long</type>
                <protected>true</protected>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:sizeQuota">
                <type>d:long</type>
                <protected>true</protected>
            </property>
         </properties>
         
         <associations>
            <association name="cm:avatar">
               <source>
                  <role>cm:avatarOf</role>
                  <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                  <many>false</many>
               </source>
               <target>
                  <class>cm:content</class>
                  <role>cm:hasAvatar</role>
                  <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                  <many>false</many>
               </target>
            </association>
         </associations>
    
    <mandatory-aspects>
    <aspect>custom:myPersonAspect</aspect>
    </mandatory-aspects>
      </type>
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- declared both of my models in my custom-model-context.xml

That way, I did not modify the file contentModel.xml in the webapp.

Of course, I had to begin with a clear alf_data (and DB too) in order to get admin user have the mandatory aspect

Hope this helps

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