topic Aspects for metadata templates in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aspects-for-metadata-templates/m-p/41681#M22341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am planning to have "metadata templates" for assets.&nbsp; The idea is that the user selects a template from a "modify asset" kind of page, and is presented with metadata (property) fields to fill out – of course, these fields and their types are determined by the template.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wanted to have my plan double-checked by people more knowledgeable than myself :-).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know I can create aspects dynamically and that is how I am going to implement metadata templates (henceforth called mtemplates for convenience). This works fine while the server is up and running.&nbsp; What happens when the server is restarted?&nbsp; How do I make sure that aspects created during runtime are still available with the same definitions after a server restart?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Would it be do-able by writing out my dynamically created aspects to an XML file, and to configure DictionaryService to read this XML file so that the definitions would be available always?&nbsp; Any other idea?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How can I create/simulate a datatype that corresponds to a drop-down list (basically, a limited set of Strings that can be chosen)?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:34:01 GMT hsjawanda 2005-12-10T03:34:01Z Aspects for metadata templates https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aspects-for-metadata-templates/m-p/41681#M22341 Hi,I am planning to have "metadata templates" for assets.&nbsp; The idea is that the user selects a template from a "modify asset" kind of page, and is presented with metadata (property) fields to fill out – of course, these fields and their types are determined by the template.I wanted to have my plan d Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:34:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aspects-for-metadata-templates/m-p/41681#M22341 hsjawanda 2005-12-10T03:34:01Z Re: Aspects for metadata templates https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aspects-for-metadata-templates/m-p/41682#M22342 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I believe you can now edit models and save them through the UI, I'm sure Roy can shed some more light on this for you.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To get a property limited to a list of possible values you can use the "category" property type. The data dictionary and repository full supports this currently but unfortunately the UI only has limited support for it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The forums functionality coming early next year will need to use a similar technique so support will be added soon. In the meantime the UI will allow you to select a category but you are able to browse the whole category tree rather than the required sub-tree.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:19:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aspects-for-metadata-templates/m-p/41682#M22342 gavinc 2005-12-12T10:19:40Z