topic Web client support for subclasses of cm:folder in Alfresco Archive

Web client support for subclasses of cm:folder

sirdodger — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:31:14 GMT

In much the same way that I can subclass from cm:content to create new kinds of content (with new metadata), I would like to be able to subclass from cm:folder to create new kinds of containers.But currently, the UI for creating spaces does not ask for the type of space to be created.Will this likel

Re: Web client support for subclasses of cm:folder

sirdodger — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:10:00 GMT

Related, I tried to build an association and I failed.


    <aspect name="my:Project">
      <title>Project Aspect</title>
      <associations>
        <association name="my:ProjectContains">
          <title>Uses Document</title>
          <description>Project uses Document</description>
          <source>
            <mandatory>false</mandatory>
            <many>true</many>
          </source>
          <target>
            <class>my:document</class>
            <mandatory>false</mandatory>
            <many>true</many>
          </target>
        </association>
      </associations>
    </aspect>
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From what I can gather, this enables a many-to-many mapping between myroject and my:document. Am I missing something?

Provided that I get this working, does the web client support association links?

Re: Web client support for subclasses of cm:folder

gavinc — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:07:33 GMT

You can actually do what you said in the first post.

If you have a custom space type you can configure this into the web client so that the "Advanced Space Wizard" shows your custom type. You can then select that custom type and create the space.

To do this add the following config to your web-client-config-custom.xml file:


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Space Wizards">
   <folder-types>
      <type name="my:customspace" icon="/images/icons/your-icon.gif" description="This is my custom space type" />
   </folder-types>
</config>
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The details page will still ask for the default set of metadata for the space, if you want to ask for the custom properties you will need to customise the advanced space wizard and replace the details page with your new one. You can configure this to only appear when your type is selected, see the following wiki pages for more information.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Wizard_Framework
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Customising_The_Create_Content_Wizard

Re: Web client support for subclasses of cm:folder

sirdodger — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:29:31 GMT

Fantastic! Thanks for the help.