topic Re: Advanced search form in popup invoked from EDIT METADATA in Alfresco Archive

Advanced search form in popup invoked from EDIT METADATA

chini — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:42:30 GMT

Hi,despite being working with Alfresco for quite some time now, this is my first post in this forum.So please, be patient with me if this first post does not comply with best practices about how to request help over here.I am trying to achieve the following things:1. provide a link/button inside or

Re: Advanced search form in popup invoked from EDIT METADATA

chini — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:40:38 GMT

Nobody?

Re: Advanced search form in popup invoked from EDIT METADATA

wabson — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:44:06 GMT

Hi Chini,

If I understand correctly, you want to fill in the value of a metadata property, based on the user selecting a matched item from a search that they perform. Is that correct?

If so, there is the concept of a 'picker' that is used for selecting tags, categories and other nodes (e.g. for associations) for an item, and these pickers are implemented using a custom form control. The pickers are displayed using a modal dialog (similar to a traditional pop-up but using HTML overlays that can be shown and hidden dynamically) and implemented using client-side JavaScript.

You can find a number of examples of implementing custom form controls such as this in the Forms Development Kit (FDK). Have you had a look at that?

Cheers,
Will

Re: Advanced search form in popup invoked from EDIT METADATA

chini — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:34:19 GMT

Thanks a lot for your responses.
Both comments are very helpful - I will let you know if I need more help on this.