topic Re: change namespace in custom content model in Alfresco Archive

change namespace in custom content model

kbrady — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:18:30 GMT

We are currently looking to migrate our Alfresco platform from 3.2 to 4.0As part of this upgrade we are looking to perform a tidy-up of a custom content model that was deployed with 3.2The original namespace that was used for the custom content model is not accurate and we would like to update it to

Re: change namespace in custom content model

afaust — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:59:03 GMT

Hello,

if you are able to whip up a small SQL script, you should be able to add this to the schema upgrade scripts already run by Alfresco and perform an in-place rename in the database during the first startup of your 4.0 platform. You would not lose any content / state / history, but probably would need to perform a full reindex (actually always when doing a significant version migration).

Take a look at the following:

bootstrap-context.xml for adding a post-upgrade script patch (and examples / existing patches)

patch-services-context.xml for declaring the patch in Alfresco terms (internal tracking)

the alf_namespace table in your database in order to derive your update SQL for the patch

Regards
Axel

Re: change namespace in custom content model

kbrady — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:57:41 GMT

Hi Axel,

Thanks for this info. We'll test out the approach now.