topic How to change cm:created property of a node? in Alfresco Archive

How to change cm:created property of a node?

sebp — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:17:50 GMT

I have the following code to set the create date of a node:…Date d = importSet.simpleDateFormat.parse(extractedDateString);Map<QName, Serializable> props = nodeService.getProperties(actionedUponNodeRef);props.put(ContentModel.PROP_TITLE, "someNewName");props.put(ContentModel.PROP_CREATED, d);n

Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

sebp — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:40:54 GMT

Ok, found the solution. Get hold of the policyBehaviourFilter first and disable cm:auditable behaviour for the current transaction.

Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

ph_francois — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:32 GMT

Dear sebp,

I'm interested by the solution you found for this.

May I ask you to be more precice on how you "Get hold of the policyBehaviourFilter first and disable cm:auditable behaviour for the current transaction" and confirm that the solution you found is working on 3.2r2 Community version

Thanks in advance

Philippe

Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

sebp — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:09:34 GMT

Hi Philippe,

I took these snippets out of my code and changed it a little bit. I hope it still works, but the important things should become clear now. When executing the action MyAction on a node it will replace the created-date of the node with the current date. Normally the auditable aspect prevents some node properties (create-date, created-by) from being changed. But the auditable aspect can be disabled for the current transaction. This is done by calling disableBehaviour(ContentModel.ASPECT_AUDITABLE) on the PolicyBehaviourFilter before the node is updated.


public class MyAction extends ActionExecuterAbstractBase {
   NodeService nodeService;
   BehaviourFilter behaviourFilter;

        @Override
   protected void executeImpl(Action action, NodeRef actionedUponNodeRef) {
           Date d = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
           Map<QName, Serializable> props = nodeService.getProperties(actionedUponNodeRef);
           props.put(ContentModel.PROP_CREATED, d);
           behaviourFilter.disableBehaviour(ContentModel.ASPECT_AUDITABLE);
           nodeService.setProperties(actionedUponNodeRef, props);
       }
}
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    <bean name="myAction" class="de.hmedia.alfresco.actions.MyAction" parent="action-executer">
        <property name="nodeService" ref="nodeService"/>
        <property name="behaviourFilter">
         <ref bean="policyBehaviourFilter" />
        </property>
    </bean>
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Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

swardi — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:44:44 GMT

i am using the alfresco webservices API. i tried to find out how to set CMLAddAspect addAspect = new CMLAddAspect(Constants.ASPECT_AUDITABLE, null, predicate, null);
but i dont find it in constants class. i mean Constants.ASPECT_AUDITABLE.

Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

gyro_gearless — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:32:47 GMT

Hi,

seems like Constants.java has some omissions, see for example http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-2174 (which also means it is quite easy to make a workaround).

However, it is usually not necessary to manually add the "cm:auditable" aspect to new content, as this is done automagically by Alfresco!

Cheers
Gyro

Re: How to change cm:created property of a node?

swardi — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:43:23 GMT

Yes, there are added authomaticaly by alfresco. But i d like to set the document "modifier" property and the "created" and "modified" property how can i do that. do you have any examples?

Thanks a lot.