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repeatable blocks of metadata for a document

prker63 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:22:23 GMT

Hi all,We want to be able to create a document which has certain metadata that is specific for the complete document but also a repeatable set of metadata fields that apply to some part of the document.For instance: we have a document that contains several parts. Each part has its own set of metadat

Re: repeatable blocks of metadata for a document

openpj — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:27:01 GMT

You can use an aspect for this type of requirements.

In an aspect you can declare a set of properties and/or associations that you want to bind and unbind against nodes.
Notice that you can declare an aspect and then you can extend an existent aspect to define a new specialized aspect.

Hope this helps.

Re: repeatable blocks of metadata for a document

prker63 — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:44:58 GMT

Hi OpenPj,

This is not what I want. I cannot repeat an aspect on an object. My use-case is:
I have an object with some unique properties.
There are however also some properties which are some kind of groups of propertie which must be repeatable.
Say for instance:
A document has a title and a description. It also has one or more categories, a category holds three properties: code, description and abbreviation
Now I can define a category aspect containing those three properties, but I cannot repeat this aspect on my document!
So how can I model this?

TIA

Re: repeatable blocks of metadata for a document

loftux — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:34 GMT

Maybe this control can help
http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-share-datatable-property-type/
It is not modeling, just a way of storing row/column data in a single property.