topic Re: Removing files in Alfresco Archive

Removing files

ltardioli — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:50:50 GMT

Hello ppl,I want to write a simple script thats remove all documents thats enter in a folder who doesnt has a extension ".backup".var name = document.name;var splited = name.split(".");var index = splited.length;if(splited[index -1]!="backup"){ document.remove();}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍I created a rule to execute

Re: Removing files

jpotts — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:26:51 GMT

My first thought is that you could write this more succinctly by using something like:
if (name.indexOf('.backup') < 0)

With that said, what you have seems like it should work. However, there is no need to put the name matching logic in the JavaScript unless you just want to. The rule configuration includes a filter by name which can be negated with a checkbox.

Jeff

Re: Removing files

ltardioli — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:30:41 GMT

Thanks for the tip!

I'm new in Javascript programming and I'm doing this examples to studying.
And your example worked fine.

Re: Removing files

jpotts — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:46:38 GMT

Excellent. Glad that worked!

If you have not already found and installed the JavaScript Console, I would encourage you to do so. It gives you a nice interactive way to run JavaScript against Alfresco directly in the Alfresco Share UI.

Another little trick is that you can run an interactive rhino shell on your desktop, like this:

java -classpath /opt/alfresco/4.0d-community/sdk/lib/server/dependencies/rhino-js-1.6R7.jar org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main‍

I put that in a file called "rhino.sh" and then whenever I can't remember some piece of JavaScript syntax or I just want to try a couple of things, I run that script and type away. Unlike the Share-based JavaScript console referenced above, this shell doesn't have direct access to the Alfresco API, but it is good for playing with straight JavaScript.

Jeff

Re: Removing files

ltardioli — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:39:20 GMT

I'm using JavaScript console and it is a great tool! Have helped me alot!

That rhino shell I didn't know it, but I'll try here!
Thanks for the help!