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Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

monkeydl — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:58:01 GMT

Hello,We are very keen to use Alfresco to create a document management solution to our client here… but are having troubles finding definitive information on where to start.So we proceed by starting with trying to add custom content type to Alfresco. But the problem here is very specific to this cli

Re: Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

bengrah — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:04:59 GMT

Hi monkeydl,

I think Alfresco can meet your requirements. You can make extend the default folder type in Alfresco and load it up with your own custom properties. You can also use Rules and Javascript to add values to custom properties as content comes into a folder/gets updated/leaves a folder.

Here's some links to help you get started:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=6817
http://keytocontent.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/creating-edit-forms-for-custom-types-in.html
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata

Good luck,
ben.

Re: Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

monkeydl — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:04:22 GMT

Thank you very much Ben

I'll definitely try out those articles

Cheers,
Hung

Re: Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

michaelnv — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:22:29 GMT

Hi Ben,

In my situation, the user wants to declare custom data types on the fly, each type has different custom fields, not only a default one with the same pre-defined custom fields. The point is that they want to get it done on the front-end immediately, without modifying or doing stuffs with XML definitions (which can only take affected once you restart Alfresco).

Do you face with this before or have any foundings on it ?

Thanks

Michael

Re: Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

bengrah — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:45:28 GMT

Hi Ben,

In my situation, the user wants to declare custom data types on the fly, each type has different custom fields, not only a default one with the same pre-defined custom fields. The point is that they want to get it done on the front-end immediately, without modifying or doing stuffs with XML definitions (which can only take affected once you restart Alfresco).

Do you face with this before or have any foundings on it ?

Thanks

Michael

Hi Michael,

Alfresco actually did a webinar on this very subject: http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/webcasts/2012/04/tech-talk-live-content-type-and-form-design-tools/ which you could check out. It might suit your needs, but there does seem to be a fair degree of configuration required, even if it isn't being done in XML.

Thanks,
Ben.

Re: Custom content types with properties added on-the-fly?

monkeydl — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:45:48 GMT

Hi Ben,

The link you sent me wasn't what I'm looking for. With some help from Jeff I found this:
http://addons.alfresco.com/addons/alfresco-model-designer

@Michael: I think you can use it for your purpose

Cheers,
Hung