topic Re: Suggest. custom association from external data in Alfresco Archive

Suggest. custom association from external data

need — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:01:07 GMT

Hi all,I need help on the feasibility of an amendment to the Alfresco share. Should I attach a document for each type of attribute external to Alfresco using the webservice that provides the external application can make me return json format that interests me but how can I do to attach it to any ki

Re: Suggest. custom association from external data

need — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:27:56 GMT

why no answer? Please take me a suggest for my problem!!!

Re: Suggest. custom association from external data

loftux — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:09:29 GMT

OK, here is what you can do.

Instead of having an association in you datamodel, make it a text property (or long if the key in the external system numeric only).

Now you need to be able to populate that property. You do that by creating a custom control.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms

Download the Forms Development Kit, FDK, https://process.alfresco.com/ccdl/?file=release/community/build-3370/alfresco-community-fdk-3.4.d.zip

In that, a good starting point would be the autocomplete control. That is because it shows you how you make a rest call to alfresco, and then server side pick up external data. And that external data is what you put in your property, a pointer to an external system. In view mode, make it a link to navigate to that system (if necessary).