topic Re: form id and datalist view in Alfresco Archive

form id and datalist view

acurs — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:00:01 GMT

Hi, I need to extend the datalist page to be able to navigate differents views of one datalist. I want to display 6 views of the datalist, where they offer different arrange of properties and controls, maybe a different datatable component… 2 views are editable where the other 4 are view

Re: form id and datalist view

cpaul — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:58:22 GMT

I'm doing this via an AJAX request for the form. It sounds like you may need to do something similar from your datalist view.

As background, I updated my share-config-custom.xml in the same manner you did, by adding a new <form> element with an id attribute of "test-template-id". Then, I created a custom field control by copying the "/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/association.ftl" Freemarker template for an association field and updated it to add a "Create" button that will request the create form for the associated object to display on the page. I would like to be able to select from a variety of form configs based on the formId parameter. To do this, I pass in an ID to tell it what type of creation form to display for the associated object:


Alfresco.util.Ajax.request({
   url: Alfresco.constants.URL_SERVICECONTEXT + "components/form",
   dataObj: {
      itemKind: "type",
      itemId: "${field.endpointType}",
      formId: ${templateId}, // This is populated from a user-selected field on the form
      mode: "create",
      submitType: "json",
      showCaption: "false",
      editInline: "true",
      destination: "${form.destination?html}",
      mimeType: "text/plain",
      htmlid: "${fieldHtmlId}"
   },
   method: "GET",
   successCallback: {
      fn: function() { 
         // Display returned form
      },
       scope: this
   },
   failureCallback: { … }
};
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This call will format the GET request with the "formId" parameter:


http://localhost:8081/share/service/components/form?itemKind=type&itemId=p%3Asco&formId=test-template-id&mode=create&submitType=json&showCaption=false&editInline=true&destination=workspace%3A%2F%2FSpacesStore%2Fe66c4f40-8efa-4851-9c21-feefa6f162f0&mimeType=text%2Fplain&htmlid=template_x002e_create-content_x002e_create-content_assoc_p_loSCO
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I'm on Alfresco Enterprise 3.4.6 (I don't think the formId parameter was being picked up for earlier versions of Alfresco - https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-4951)

This forum post also helped me: https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=36223

Re: form id and datalist view

acurs — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:30:37 GMT

Hi Cpaul,
       I am working with Alfresco 3.4d I didn't notice that there was a bug with the form id call, I'll upgrade to Alfresco 4 to do it.
          So besides my content model project-datalist.xml for the datalist and the share-config-custom.xml, I should create a custom data list page declaring it in web-extensions/site-data/page/projectDatalist.xml and web-extensions/site-data/template-instance/projectDatalist.xml, and in web-extensions/templates/project/projectDatalist.ftl all these files based on the default datalist page. Then I should copy the association.ftl in web-extensions/templates/customAssociation.ftl and customized to diplay the list of views associated with an object of the page (a select box) that will render a new datatable each time onselected view with the correspondent form-id.

        The share/components/data-lists/datagrid.js file must not be changed, or should I add the ajaxrequest there?

Cheers,
Albert