topic Re: Categorizing sites in Share in Alfresco Archive

Categorizing sites in Share

cybertoast — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:11:43 GMT

Reading through the forums it seems that the Categories feature which is available in /alfresco is not visible/accessible in /share. I've got a problem where I need to be able to display the My Sites dashlet with categories, or some form of grouping. The reason is that my sites belong to different c

Re: Categorizing sites in Share

mikeh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:24:17 GMT

If you look in the Sites space using Explorer, you'll see the various site top-level containers. It should be pretty easy to add categories to each of these how you'd like and then create a web script to send those categories back as a JSON response given a site name (or array or site names).

Mike

Re: Categorizing sites in Share

cybertoast — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:58:54 GMT

The

create a web script to send those categories back as a JSON response given a site name

is where the problem is for me. Is there an example I can start from to get a sense of how things like category can be accessed? I'm new to this, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Categorizing sites in Share

mikeh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:41:21 GMT

Categories are queried in the "pickerchildren" webscript, used by the category picker in the Forms runtime (used when you "Edit Metadata" on a Share asset that has the cm:classifiable aspect)

The webscript URI is

/api/forms/picker/{type}/{store_type}/{store_id}/{id}/children‍

Thanks,
Mike