topic Re: Aspect inheritance? in Alfresco Archive

Aspect inheritance?

targa2000 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:13:36 GMT

Can an aspect have a parent?<aspect name="exaarentAspect"> <title>parent aspect</title> <properties> <property name="exa:someProperty"> <type>d:text</type> </property> <properties></aspect><aspect name="exa:

Re: Aspect inheritance?

kbonnet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:19:30 GMT

I think the answer to both questions is No.

What are you trying to achieve?

Re: Aspect inheritance?

targa2000 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:28:03 GMT

thanks for the reply. I wanted to have aspects with many similar properties.

the workaround is probably just to have one aspect with a number of properties blank when used in different situations or for different content.

Re: Aspect inheritance?

kbonnet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:44:13 GMT

If you're using Share you could write a "custom control" to not show some properties in a specific situation. Maybe that also helps you.

Re: Aspect inheritance?

tommorris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:38:58 GMT

Are you sure aspects cannot have parents…?
http://www.ixxus.com/blog/2009/01/aspects/
…hmmm

Re: Aspect inheritance?

kbonnet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:47:26 GMT

Oh, i just didnt know this. This is really nice! Havent ever used or tried it, so i leave that up to you.

Sorry for confusing you then and thanks for learning me about this

Koen