topic Problems creating new webscript in Alfresco Archive

Problems creating new webscript

lemmy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:32:27 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to create a new webscript. webscripts\list\thumbnails.* is pretty much what I need. So I copied and renamed 3 files to pictures.*. I've updated pictures.get.desc.xmlpictures.get.desc.xml<webscript> <shortname>List of pictures</shortname> <description>List of p

Re: Problems creating new webscript

bremmington — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:47:39 GMT

It looks like your new component is expecting a parameter named "collection" to be passed to it, which it then uses to populate "articles" in the controller:


model.articles = collectionService.getCollection(context.properties.section.id, args.collection);
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However, your page definition isn't specifying the collection parameter, so articles will not be set. Therefore, the test in your component FreeMarker will return false:


<#if articles??>
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and so the majority of the component won't render.

You probably want to change your page definition to look something like (using your collection name in place of "mypictures"):


      <component>
         <region-id>right3</region-id>
         <url>/list/pictures</url>
         <properties>
             <collection>mypictures</collection>
        </properties>         
      </component>
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Re: Problems creating new webscript

lemmy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:23:25 GMT

Thanks, Brian. This works perfectly fine for static collection names. I need to calculate the name of the collection depending on the name of the article. This calculation should be done by the web script.

Any idea why it isn't started?

Re: Problems creating new webscript

bremmington — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:32:57 GMT

Sorry, I'm not with you. Why what isn't started?

Re: Problems creating new webscript

lemmy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:53:55 GMT

Found it 🙂 The script was named picture.js instead of picture.get.js. Thanks for your immediate help. Highly appreciated.