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Surf Extension - edit-metadata forms component override

loftux — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:09:28 GMT

In the edit-metadata page I want to use a special form if the document has a specific aspect applied. For what I can tell by mere forms config you cannot do this based on aspect, only on document type.So instead looking into surf extension, if I can do something like<extension> <modules&g

Re: Surf Extension - edit-metadata forms component override

afaust — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:42:45 GMT

Hello,

the hasAspect evaluator is not a Surf evaluator but a Share Documentlibrary one - that is a huge difference. Surf requires a bean which is a SubComponentEvaluator type and registered via a Spring context - it would know the hasAspect evaluator, but that one is of a different type for a different purpose.

There currently is no Surf sub-component evaluator defined by default which can handle the nodeRef URL parameter and check that for a specific aspect. You would have to implement you own and properly register this in a Spring context file to be able to use it in Surf.

Regards
Axel

Re: Surf Extension - edit-metadata forms component override

loftux — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:13:17 GMT

I came up with a solution that I wrote about in my blog
http://loftux.com/2012/05/04/select-metadata-edit-form-based-on-aspect/

Re: Surf Extension - edit-metadata forms component override

afaust — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:28:17 GMT

A different approach made possible by the new flexibility in Share customization. Nice one…

Based on the use case you explained in your blog, you might have also used a form filter (and possibly a guard policy) on the Repository tier to ensure read-only behavior on a lower level, so to avoid URL-based hacks and partially redundant form configuration. But of course, as you stated, such type of security was not warranted in your case.