topic Re: Add additional folder properties in Alfresco Archive

Add additional folder properties

pmverma — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:40:39 GMT

Hi all, I like to add custom properties for folder in document details page. I like to add something like.Name: KhwabenTitle: (None) Description: Khwaben of mineSize: 10 MBSub-File: 3 files I google and I find Jeff article of extending person properties. http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/02/27/

Re: Add additional folder properties

jpotts — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:02:34 GMT

Extending the folder with custom properties shouldn't be as difficult as extending the person object.

In fact, it really isn't any different than extending cm:content or creating your own custom aspect and adding it to the folder.

Try creating a custom aspect with those two properties and adding it to a folder. Use the share-config-custom.xml to configure the fields that are displayed for cm:folder. If you need help doing that, look at the custom content types tutorial on ecmarchitect.com.

Once you get your custom properties displaying properly you can move on to how those properties are calculated. It looks like you want to count the files in a folder and also keep track of the total size of the files in a folder. There are multiple ways to do that, but one way would be to create a behavior bound to your custom aspect that is triggered when children are added. The behavior can calculate the stats and store them in the custom properties you defined in the previous step. Realize this could get very expensive and time consuming if you do it in enough folders and if the folders grow large.

If you need help writing a behavior, look at the behavior tutorial on ecmarchitect.com.

Jeff

Re: Add additional folder properties

kevinnason — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:39:47 GMT

is there something special that needs to be done to get custom properties to show up in a unqualified search? I have qualified the fields in the search.get file but still I have to fully qualify my custom folder fields to get them to show up.