topic Re: Reading Aspects in Custom Actions in Alfresco Archive

Reading Aspects in Custom Actions

erictice — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:01:46 GMT

I created a custom action and it kicks off properly. One thing I am curious about though. How do I access Aspect metadata that was not set on the action itself? For instance. The Title and Author fields are out of box metadata that you can see on the content. My action is kicked off on adding c

Re: Reading Aspects in Custom Actions

jpotts — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:29:39 GMT

If you are talking about a Java-based Action, the NodeRef the action is running against gets passed in to your executeImpl method:

protected void executeImpl(Action action, NodeRef actionedUponNodeRef)‍

Once you have that, you can get/set properties to your heart's content

Map<QName, Serializable> properties = nodeService.getProperties(actionedUponNodeRef);
properties.put(SomeCoModel.PROP_IS_ACTIVE, activeFlag);‍‍

If you are running JavaScript-based action, the object the action is running against is automatically available in the "document" root variable.

if (document.hasAspect("sc:webable")) {
   if (document.properties["sc:isActive"] == true) {
      document.properties["sc:isActive"] = false;
      document.properties["sc:published"] = new Date();
   
      document.save();
   }
} ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hope that helps,

Jeff

Re: Reading Aspects in Custom Actions

erictice — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:59:37 GMT

I need to get properties. Are they pre-set as part of the content?

Re: Reading Aspects in Custom Actions

erictice — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:17:23 GMT

What would the somecomodel be if I were trying to get the Author metadata as it is an standard alfresco option not one I want to customize?