topic Re: Adding an association in Alfresco Archive

Adding an association

mizage — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:38:18 GMT

I have added a new aspect to ws:indexPage, which is an assocation. Everything works fine as long as it's a new index page, meaning that it was created after I altered the content model.If I try to alter an older index page, I get the following warning (shouldn't it be an error?):10:26:58,464 WARN

Re: Adding an association

bremmington — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:54:57 GMT

No, this is just the form processor that's handling the edit form submission warning you that the node being edited doesn't appear to have this particular association defined.

Re: Adding an association

mizage — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:56:45 GMT

My issue is that when I add an article to an existing node (via the newly created aspect) it doesn't save the association to the article. But with a new node (created after the model was altered)
it does save the association to the article. Sorry if I'm not being clear.

Re: Adding an association

bremmington — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:39:07 GMT

How are you trying to add the association on the "old" node? If the aspect isn't applied to that node then you won't be able to add an association of that type. Does it work if you add the aspect to the old node before trying to add the association?

Re: Adding an association

mizage — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:45:32 GMT

Sometimes it's easier to show!

Open a ws:indexPage (one created before the model was altered):

[img]http://www.acthiv.org/2010slides/indexOldMeta.png[/img]
[img]http://www.acthiv.org/2010slides/indexOldMeta2.png[/img]
[img]http://www.acthiv.org/2010slides/indexOldMeta3.png[/img]

Then after saving, re-open and the assocation has not been saved:

[img]http://www.acthiv.org/2010slides/indexOldMeta4.png[/img]

Now if I do the same with a ws:indexPage created after I altered the model, the association is saved. No problems.

Re: Adding an association

bremmington — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:55 GMT

This is due to your revised form definition showing the "generic links" even though the node being edited doesn't have that association available (since it doesn't have your custom aspect on it). I suggest that you write a little webscript that finds all nodes of type ws:indexPage that don't have your custom aspect applied and adds your custom aspect to each one that doesn't already have it. You can then execute that webscript to fix up your content, and that will resolve this problem.