topic Re: Custom Action To Trigger Download of Node's Content in Alfresco Archive

Custom Action To Trigger Download of Node's Content

vamirr — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:20:29 GMT

I'm trying to develop a custom action in Share that will trigger the download of content from a node in another location.The idea is that upon clicking the custom action on the folder in Share, a java-backed webscript generates a new node in the repository in some other directory and populates its c

Re: Custom Action To Trigger Download of Node's Content

vamirr — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:46:55 GMT

The solution is to provide the genericAction constructor a callback function in the case of a success.

That callback function is is given a result object that contains the text result from the webscript.

I changed the webscript to output just the URL of the node to be downloaded instead of an HTML page with an HTML redirect in it.

Now, I just pull the result in the success callback function and do the redirect in javascript.


Alfresco.DocumentList.prototype.onActionZipExport = function DL_onActionZipExport(file)
  {
     this.modules.actions.genericAction(
      {
         success:
         {
            message: this.msg("message.zipexport.success", file.displayName),
            event:  {   name: "metadataRefresh"  },
            callback : {        fn: function(object){   window.location = object.serverResponse.responseText;
 
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The result looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA67QHYqBSg

Re: Custom Action To Trigger Download of Node's Content

prker63 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:34:15 GMT

Hi Vamirr,

Could you share your solution with us? I'm also looking for a solution to generate a zip for the contents of a folder and store that zipfile alongside the folder.
Thanx in advance