topic Customizing the doclib filter mechanism in Alfresco Archive

Customizing the doclib filter mechanism

pl_componize — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:20:27 GMT

In order to meet my requirements with custom doclib behaviors,I'm finding myself hacking a lot by overrinding the repository files filter.lib.js and doc.lib.js and slingshot webscript files.But that leaves me with the work of copying any update on the alfresco SVN on those files later on.Is there a

Re: Customizing the doclib filter mechanism

ddraper — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:12:44 GMT

Hi,

The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is that we'd ideally like to make it possible to make customizations to the JavaScript components without the need to completely override the WebScripts that instantiate them. There is internal discussion and prototyping of various solutions going on at the moment which will need to be fully evaluated before determining if and when they get into the product.

Regards,
Dave

Re: Customizing the doclib filter mechanism

pl_componize — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:48:21 GMT

can you explain briefly what is the role of the filterOwner in the filter mechanism?

I've added a filter in a custom action in the document library which fires the changeFilter event, but I can't get the toolbar to properly display the right bundle.