topic Re: Change Type from Custom Type back to Content Base Type in Alfresco Archive

Change Type from Custom Type back to Content Base Type

gukguk — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:39:53 GMT

Hi !I can manage to change type from content base type(cm:content) to my custom type(my:customtype) but if i try to change it back to cm:content it throw an error.Is it not possible to change back custom type document to cm:content?Thanks

Re: Change Type from Custom Type back to Content Base Type

openpj — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:40:13 GMT

No, it is not possible to specialize a node from a specialized node to the base type. Because in this way you are removing properties and the Alfresco model doesn't allow this type of operations using types. I suggest you to change your model adding some aspects that can be added and removed from a node. Each aspect will manage a group of properties and/or associations.

That's why for the content model you only follow an append approach: you can add definitions but you can't remove any definitions.

You can create a rule with an action (written in Javascript) that can be triggered to create a new node and moving the content from the old node to the new one.
But if you have a model based on aspects you can create your rule in a better way without creating new nodes.

Hope this helps.

Re: Change Type from Custom Type back to Content Base Type

gukguk — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:59:17 GMT

Thanks OpenPj
Your answer is really helpful

Re: Change Type from Custom Type back to Content Base Type

bhavana — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:48:58 GMT

Hi

I am also trying out the same thing. I want an option to reselect the change type option for changing the content type.
I know its not possible out of the box, but did anyone get any way out to achieve the above said requirement.

Thanks