topic Re: Custom share datalists in Alfresco Archive

Custom share datalists

eddie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:23:00 GMT

Hi, Just a post to explain my experiences, as I can tell other newbies have struggled with creating custom data lists. Well, maybe it's just me, but then I'm posting this for my own future reference :-)I wanted to create a custom datalist. Google told me to go to http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/201

Re: Custom share datalists

jpotts — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:51:12 GMT

I know this is an old thread…

If you get a chance, please let me know specifically what doesn't work in that ecmarchitect.com data list example. The code provided does not include any FTL files so it is a bit puzzling why it didn't work for you.

In any case, Share Extras is a great resource, so glad you found that.

I would say that AMPs are the standard we are trying to get people to use for deploying customizations. As you point out, deploying using a single JAR only works when you are running Alfresco and Share in the same container and it does not work for all types of customizations.

The step you mentioned about having to configure the shared classloader is something that is commonly done for all Alfresco implementations and is not related specifically to data lists. Many people use the Shared class loader to store server-specific configuration files and alfresco-global.properties.

Thanks for sharing your experience and welcome to the community!

Jeff

Re: Custom share datalists

rjohnson — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:51:51 GMT

Jeff

Found this post when I was having the same issue. The download code from ecmarchitect.com does not contain a file row-new.ftl and row-edit.ftl which are referenced in the file fdk-common-custom.xml as the templates for the forms for adding and editing a row. replacing these references with

<create-form template="/org/alfresco/components/data-lists/forms/dataitem.ftl" />‍

and

<edit-form template="/org/alfresco/components/data-lists/forms/dataitem.ftl" />‍

respectively solves the issue (or at least is does in 4.0a)

Best

Bob