cannot customize share with share-config-custom.xml

jackjm — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:02:32 GMT

Hello alli wanted to customize the metadata displayed for an articles in the library to show the name of the author instead of the 'modified by' field. Here is what I put into share-config-custom.xml<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary"> <metadata-templates&g

Re: cannot customize share with share-config-custom.xml

jordiv — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:25:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm also a newbie with this, and I'm learning how to do this things at the moment, so maybe my response is not very accurate.

1) If I were to add some text to indicate the field, say: Author: ${author}, then it is displayed in the reverse order as- 'XYZName Author: ' Suggestions on why this is happenning.

The syntax for doing that is:

<line index="10" id="author">{my:author label.my_author}</line>‍

2) say I wanted this line to be not displayed at all if the author name is blank; how would I go about doing it? From MikeH's blog post, I realize I might need to write a custom evaluator to make this happen; but my knowledge ends there; are there any working sequence of steps that I can first try and build upon

You are right, you need a custom evaluator for that. So your code would look like:

<line index="10" id="author" evaluator="evaluator.doclib.metadata.hasAuthor">
    {my:author label.my_author}
</line>‍‍‍

If I'm not mistaken, you define your custom evaluators in custom-slingshot-application-context.xml located at tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/. There are some predefined evaluators you can use as parent for your custom evaluator. In your case you could use the evaluator.doclib.action.propertyNotNull evaluator.
So your custom evaluator would be something similar to:


    <bean id="evaluator.doclib.metadata.hasAuthor" parent="evaluator.doclib.action.propertyNotNull">
        <property name="property">
            <value>my:author</value>
        </property>
    </bean>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

3) Is it possible to have different meta-data displayed for spaces and content? If possible, any guidance will be greatly appreciated.

I think that is possible using evaluators. For example you have the evaluator.doclib.action.nodeType evaluator that will display the metadata only if the node matches a certain node type.

Cheers,
Jordi

Re: cannot customize share with share-config-custom.xml

jackjm — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:55:26 GMT

Fantastic, thank you for the help again Jordi!

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