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How to retrieve properties description via Javascript

kitelabs — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:17 GMT

Hi guys,I need help to retrieve properties descriptions as specified in my customModel.xmlIn my model I have something like that:………. <property name="fa:customer"> <title>Customer Name</title> <type>d:text</type> <mandatory>tru

Re: How to retrieve properties description via Javascript

abarisone — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:03:33 GMT

Hi,
here you can find more info about Javascript API, especially related to properties: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/4.0_JavaScript_API#ScriptNode_API
Usually I use this code to get properties:

properties:<#list node.properties?keys as t>
            <#– If the property exists –>
                <#if (node.properties[t]?exists) )>
                   <#– If it is a date, format it accordingly–>
                   <#if node.properties[t]?is_date>
                          ${t}:"${node.properties[t]?string("dd-MM-yyyy")}"
                   <#– If it is a boolean, format it accordingly–>
                   <#elseif node.properties[t]?is_boolean>
                          ${t}:"${node.properties[t]?string("yes", "no")}"
                   <#– If it is a sequence–>
                   <#elseif node.properties[t]?is_sequence>
                          ${t}:[<#list node.properties[t] as item>
                                ${item}<#if item_has_next>,</#if>
                            </#list>]
                   <#– Otherwise treat it as a string –>
                   <#else>
                           ${t}:"${node.properties[t]?js_string}"
                   </#if>
                   <#if t_has_next>,</#if>
                </#if>
             </#list>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

P.S.: please use code tags to make your code more readable…

Regards,
Andrea

Re: How to retrieve properties description via Javascript

kitelabs — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:37:20 GMT

Hi Andrea,
thanks for your answer.
I've already visited this url: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/4.0_JavaScript_API#ScriptNode_API and your code is similar to mine, although better formatted

The point is that in both cases we got a list of pairs of property name and property value, instead of property description.

It seems that we can refer to the single property as:


var p1 = document.properties.name
var p2 = document.properties["name"];
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for the properties that belongs to the cm:namespace

or:


var p3 = document.properties["my:property"];
var p4 = document.properties["{http://my.domain.org/model/content/1.0}property"];
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on the other cases.

But the question is: there is a way to get the property description ?

In our code, the line:

${t}:"${node.properties[t]?js_string}"

give us, for example something like:

"{http://my.domain.org/model/content/1.0}property": "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

but when I set the property , in the model file, I gave it a title, for example "Short Rhyme".. well now I would like to get that string.

I hope I was more clear with my question.

Regards

Marcello

Re: How to retrieve properties description via Javascript

abarisone — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:51:29 GMT

Hi,
perhaps this post could be useful https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46716

Regards,
Andrea

Re: How to retrieve properties description via Javascript

kitelabs — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:54:43 GMT

Hi Andrea,

thanks again, I know that it should be possible to retrieve the property description writing the right Java code, but I would get one solution in Javascript environment.
Sincerely, I don't think that my problem is too big to require an Alfresco guru like Jeff Potts 😉
If you have to design, suppose, one client to access certain documents, you would like to inherit the definitions already made in the model file, in which you can find, for example, the data type and the description of each property.

I hope that someone will have a nice solution to solve my problem.

Regards

Marcello