topic Re: Changing a field from one to many values in Alfresco Archive

Changing a field from one to many values

cshryock — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:43:58 GMT

Hello,I want to change a field from one to multiple:<multiple>false</multiple>‍to<multiple>true</multiple>‍Is this going to cause all of my current records to freak out? If yes, how can I do an upgrade?Thanks in advance, my googling and forum searching didn't find the answer

Re: Changing a field from one to many values

smicyk — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:17:49 GMT

Hi,

your records will be ok, after such change but you must remember that after this you should check what type of value is in your properties. For nodes before change it will be simple type like String, Double etc. After change it will be a list of Strings, Doubles etc. You should call action which will change all simple values to list values before you do anything with such records.

smicyk

Re: Changing a field from one to many values

cshryock — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:55:56 GMT

Hi smicyk,

Thanks for the reply.

What do you mean by:

You should call action

Thanks again,
Chad.

Re: Changing a field from one to many values

mrogers — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:57:17 GMT

It should be O.K.

However please note that the other way (multiple to single) would be problematic.

Re: Changing a field from one to many values

smicyk — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:35:41 GMT

Hi,

by call an action I mean, that you should create Alfresco Action which do the conversion or use boostrap mechanism to do conversion before application fully starts.

smicyk