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Adding Custom Action in Share Using Predefined Evaluators

vamirr — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:15:57 GMT

I'm adding a custom action in share based on its mimetype. Can I use the IsMimetype evaluator directly or do I have to make a child of that declared in another bean?I'd like this action to only show on zip files. In my Share config, I'm trying to use IsMimetype directly by feeding it a mimetype

Re: Adding Custom Action in Share Using Predefined Evaluators

mikeh — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:33:03 GMT

One obvious problem is that the mimetype for zip files is actually application/zip, not ZIP.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Adding Custom Action in Share Using Predefined Evaluators

wabson — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:34:41 GMT

'ZIP' is not a valid MIME type, as Mike says. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type for background reading.

But to answer your main question, you do need to declare your Spring bean (for the evaluator) in a separate file to your action declaration, since the latter is Alfresco-specific rather than Spring config.

You don't mention which file you have placed the config above in, but the simplest approach is normally to place custom Alfresco config in share-config-custom.xml and custom Spring config in a *-context.xml file, both under tomcat/shared/alfresco/web-extension.

Cheers,
Will

Re: Adding Custom Action in Share Using Predefined Evaluators

vamirr — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:45:26 GMT

Got it. Thanks guys.