topic Adding a Custom Dialog: does not appear in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-a-custom-dialog-does-not-appear/m-p/233874#M187004 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to create a dialog so I followed the tutorial:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_Dialog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_Dialog</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I created the files and deployed them as explained by the tutorial, then I restarted Alfresco (3.2).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But the item action does not appear. Not even in the "More actions" menu.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>No error in the log either (log4j: all debug).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What did I do wrong?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the content of the ZIP file I uncompress in a fresh Alfresco 3.2's tomcat/webapps/alfresco:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&gt; jsp<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; extension<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; add-aspect.jsp<BR />&gt; WEB-INF<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; lib<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; custom-dialog.jar<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Here is the content of custom-dialog.jar:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&gt; alfresco<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; extension<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; web-client-config-custom.xml<BR />&gt; META-INF<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; faces-config.xml<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; MANIFEST.MF<BR />&gt; org&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; alfresco<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; sample<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt; AddAspectDialog.class<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>add-aspect.jsp:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;%@ taglib uri="<A href="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://java.sun.com/jsf/html</A>" prefix="h" %&gt;<BR />&lt;%@ taglib uri="<A href="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://java.sun.com/jsf/core</A>" prefix="f" %&gt;<BR />&lt;%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/alfresco.tld" prefix="a" %&gt;<BR />&lt;%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/repo.tld" prefix="r" %&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;h:outputText value="#{msg.aspect}: " /&gt;<BR />&lt;h:selectOneMenu value="#{DialogManager.bean.aspect}"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;f:selectItems value="#{RunActionWizard.testableAspects}" /&gt;<BR />&lt;/h:selectOneMenu&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>web-client-config-custom.xml (I am sure this file is read, because if I break the XML then Alfresco complains):</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;alfresco-config&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;config&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;actions&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action id="add_aspect"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;label&gt;Add Aspect&lt;/label&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;image&gt;/images/icons/add.gif&lt;/image&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action&gt;dialog:addAspect&lt;/action&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action-listener&gt;#{BrowseBean.setupSpaceAction}&lt;/action-listener&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;params&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="id"&gt;#{actionContext.id}&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/params&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/action&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Add action to more actions menu for each space –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action-group id="space_browse_menu"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action idref="add_aspect" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/action-group&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/actions&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;dialogs&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;dialog name="addAspect" page="/jsp/extension/add-aspect.jsp" managed-bean="AddAspectDialog"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; icon="/images/icons/add_content_large.gif" title="Add Aspect" <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; description="Adds an aspect to the selected node" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/dialogs&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/config&gt;<BR />&lt;/alfresco-config&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>faces-config.xml (I am sure this file is read, because if I break the XML then Alfresco complains):</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "<A href="http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd</A>"&gt;<BR />&lt;faces-config&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-bean-name&gt;AddAspectDialog&lt;/managed-bean-name&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-bean-class&gt;org.alfresco.sample.AddAspectDialog&lt;/managed-bean-class&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-bean-scope&gt;session&lt;/managed-bean-scope&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property-name&gt;nodeService&lt;/property-name&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;#{NodeService}&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/managed-property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;managed-property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property-name&gt;browseBean&lt;/property-name&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;#{BrowseBean}&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/managed-property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/managed-bean&gt;<BR />&lt;/faces-config&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>MANIFEST.MF:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>Manifest-Version: 1.0<BR />Created-By: Nicolas<BR />Class-Path: web-client-config-custom.xml<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>AddAspectDialog.java:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>package org.alfresco.sample;<BR /><BR />import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;<BR />import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;<BR />import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;<BR />import org.alfresco.web.bean.dialog.BaseDialogBean;<BR />import org.alfresco.web.bean.repository.Repository;<BR /><BR />public class AddAspectDialog extends BaseDialogBean<BR />{<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; protected String aspect;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; protected String finishImpl(FacesContext context, String outcome) throws Exception<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // get the space the action will apply to<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NodeRef nodeRef = this.browseBean.getActionSpace().getNodeRef();<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // resolve the fully qualified aspect name<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QName aspectToAdd = Repository.resolveToQName(this.aspect);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // add the aspect to the space<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; getNodeService().addAspect(nodeRef, aspectToAdd, null);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // return the default outcome<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return outcome;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; public boolean getFinishButtonDisabled()<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return false;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; public String getAspect()<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return aspect;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; public void setAspect(String aspect)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this.aspect = aspect;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Strangely, if instead of deploying this ZIP I just copy web-client-config-custom.xml to shared, then the item action appears (but of course it does not go further). However, I am sure this file is read in both cases, because if I break the XML then Alfresco complains.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Nicolas.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:49:24 GMT nicolasraoul 2010-01-25T13:49:24Z Adding a Custom Dialog: does not appear https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-a-custom-dialog-does-not-appear/m-p/233874#M187004 Hello,I want to create a dialog so I followed the tutorial:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_DialogI created the files and deployed them as explained by the tutorial, then I restarted Alfresco (3.2).But the item action does not appear. Not even in the "More actions" menu.No error in the Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:49:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-a-custom-dialog-does-not-appear/m-p/233874#M187004 nicolasraoul 2010-01-25T13:49:24Z Re: Adding a Custom Dialog: does not appear https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-a-custom-dialog-does-not-appear/m-p/233875#M187005 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It was very easy: The action-group is space_browse_menu so the item action only appears for spaces… not for documents.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Sorry for the noise!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:55:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-a-custom-dialog-does-not-appear/m-p/233875#M187005 nicolasraoul 2010-01-26T09:55:24Z