topic Re: Creating a custom typed node in Alfresco Archive

Creating a custom typed node

xtine — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:09:08 GMT

We are using Alfresco with a Drupal web site using the CMIS API. We use Alfresco workflows to process content from the web site. We do have some issues. One question is not CMIS related, but rather web script related: how do we create a custom typed node with NodeAPI createNode(), in the process def

Re: Creating a custom typed node

iblanco — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:12:53 GMT

I don't understand the question I think.
createNode has a signature that allows specifying the type as the second parameter. So in the script you exect from the workflow you can just use it. isn't it?

Re: Creating a custom typed node

rob_vandenbogaa — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:00:18 GMT

I'm a colleague of Christine and also working on the workflows. Turns out we might have overlooked something, because in trying to reproduce and better document the error it suddenly worked. I expected to have to prefix the namespace (e.g. with 'D') and remember also testing without it, but that seems not the case: it works if I specify the type as is, like "myprefix:mytype". Thanks for the reply!