topic Re: Help with button and form in Alfresco Archive

Help with button and form

davidez — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:44:30 GMT

Hi all, what I'd like to do is a customization of my Alfresco share (version 3.4.d).I have a site and I want to:1. add a button on my documentlibrary toolbar;2. create a form with some controls;3. pop up this form when button is pushed;4. deal with user inputs to create folders and documents.I creat

Re: Help with button and form

mikeh — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:37:43 GMT

Take a look at the code behind "New Folder" - that's doing almost exactly what you want.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Help with button and form

davidez — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:57:44 GMT

Thanks Myke,
I found this tutorial http://edlovesjava.blogspot.com/2008/10/surf-4-modifying-share-documentlibrary.html

I'm looking at the code in toolbar.js but nothing happens when I push my button!

I'm trying to use logger.log in toolbar.js but nothing is logged. Can you tell me which row in log4j I have to edit?

Re: Help with button and form

davidez — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:20:23 GMT

Hi Mike,
do you know how to set a value to the "name" field in create folder form?
I'd like to do that in toolbar.js.

Re: Help with button and form

davidez — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:25:18 GMT

Maybe this information is usefull for somebody:
To make that example works, at the end you need to stop tomcat service, re-create toolbar-min.js with command java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.6.jar -o toolbar-min.js toolbar.js (need yuicompressor-2.4.6.jar), clear browser cache and restart tomcat.