topic Re: Getting started with Content Models in Alfresco Archive

Getting started with Content Models

samblunt — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:41:40 GMT

Hi all,I am just getting started with Alfresco and am looking to see what the how the out of the box content models are set up and what I would do to go about extending them if needed. I have read the help pages on the website, however it doesnt really give me an idea of what comes as standard. My i

Re: Getting started with Content Models

smicyk — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:34:14 GMT

Hi,

I think you should check <install_path>\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\model folder. There are all models available in Alfresco.

smicyk

Re: Getting started with Content Models

samblunt — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:36:28 GMT

Thanks for that smicyk.

I think I am begining to understand it a bit more now. One aspect is confusing me a little however. When defining a type within a content model, one of the tags that you define is <type>. I can see d:text and d:content as types in the contentModel.xml. where are these defined, and can i see what they actually represent, i.e. If i define a type as <type>d:content</type>, what is this actually going to mean the behaviors of this type will be?

thanks

samblunt

Re: Getting started with Content Models

smicyk — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:23:09 GMT

Hi,

I think you should check http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide for general information about creating new content models.

Answer to your question: d:text and d:content are data types of your model type properties and they are defined in dictionaryModel.xml. The difference between those two is that d:content property holds information (size, disk location and mime type etc.) about content (pdf, doc etc.) and d:text property keeps only text information (no binary content) and it is stored in database not on disk.

smicyk