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How to create a new category?

purplesky — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:09:57 GMT

I need to add a new category to the category tree.

Re: How to create a new category?

jcustovic — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:28:38 GMT


String categoryName = "yourCategoryName";
ParentReference categoryParentRef = new ParentReference();
categoryParentRef.setStore(WORKSPACE_STORE);
categoryParentRef.setPath("/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable");
categoryParentRef.setChildName(Constants.createQNameString(Constants.NAMESPACE_CONTENT_MODEL, categoryName));
categoryParentRef.setAssociationType(Constants.createQNameString(Constants.NAMESPACE_CONTENT_MODEL, "subcategories"));

NamedValue[] categoryProperties = new NamedValue[] { Utils.createNamedValue(Constants.PROP_NAME, categoryName) };
CMLCreate createCategory = new CMLCreate("addCategory", categoryParentRef, null, Constants.ASSOC_CONTAINS, null, Constants.createQNameString(Constants.NAMESPACE_CONTENT_MODEL, "category"), categoryProperties);
CML cml = new CML();
cml.setCreate(new CMLCreate[]{ createCategory });            
UpdateResult[] updateResult = getRepositoryService().update(cml);
Reference categoryReference = updateResult[0].getDestination();
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Re: How to create a new category?

hamptonowen — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:46:55 GMT

thanks for sharing..i was looking for the answer of this question…

Re: How to create a new category?

rleones — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:18:27 GMT

And how can I create a new Classification?

Re: How to create a new category?

scylin — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:42:37 GMT

And how can I create a new Classification?

I'd like to know this as well, I finally got the categories to work and now I stumbled upon this new problem

Help appreciated.

Re: How to create a new category?

openpj — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:56:41 GMT

If you need to add a new classification at runtime without restart Alfresco, you have to deploy a new aspect in the Alfresco content model storing the new model in the Data Dictionary -> Models. After you have stored the new model as a XML file you have to activate the model changing the property Model Active.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Classification_And_Categories#Adding_your_own_classification

You can perform this operation via Web Services considering the Alfresco Content Model as a standard XML content.

Then you can add a new category as you have seen in the previous post.

Hope this helps.