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Mandatory association problem

tomasp — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:04 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to model mandatory association with enforced="false". I created new type with association "Designer". On every document of this type the designer association must be filled.I want to upload document of my new type. During the upload I can't fill properties and associations, so I declar

Re: Mandatory association problem

afaust — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:28:36 GMT

Hello,

the "enforced" attribute on association mandatory settings is actually not required as - in contrast to properties - association "mandatory-ness" is already enforced and validated by default.
I'd advise against defining mandatory associations for content types as this prevents you from uploading any document of this type or even specializing the type via the "Change Type" action, as you have no way of providing the associations in these operations. The only mandatory associations should be on aspects IMHO.

Basically, the behavior you describe is to be expected for the model you defined.

Regards
Axel

Re: Mandatory association problem

mirko79_9866 — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:30:08 GMT

I AFaust,

is this behavior still valid?
Documentation for alfresco 4.1 says that it's possible to set enforced="false": http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.enterprise.doc%2Fconcepts%2Fmetadata-model-assoc.html

Thanks,
mirko