topic Creating content types in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/creating-content-types/m-p/259172#M212302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've been trying for over a week now to create user defined content types and having no success.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have used the following guidlines </SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model</A><SPAN> and</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I just cannot seem to get the application to recognise it. I have even tried to use the example models, simply renaming them from .sample to .xml, and still no see.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there something obvious I am missing that is not in these tutorials? What I am trying to do is see how Alfresco compares with the Sharepoint document libraries where you can create user defined forms quite easily, to store meta data on the document.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help or pointers would be appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For the example files I have rename examplemodel.xml.sample to examplemodel.xml</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>renamed example-model-context.xml.sample to example-model-context.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>restarted tomcat</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:33:46 GMT gazman 2011-11-04T19:33:46Z Creating content types https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/creating-content-types/m-p/259172#M212302 I've been trying for over a week now to create user defined content types and having no success.I have used the following guidlines http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model andhttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_GuideI just cannot seem to get the application to r Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:33:46 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/creating-content-types/m-p/259172#M212302 gazman 2011-11-04T19:33:46Z Re: Creating content types https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/creating-content-types/m-p/259173#M212303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I think that you have to configure Alfresco Share and Alfresco Explorer to show all the new types, properties and aspect inside the UI dashlets:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Customisation_Guide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Customisation_Guide</A><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:54:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/creating-content-types/m-p/259173#M212303 openpj 2011-11-30T11:54:14Z