topic Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist in Alfresco Archive

Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

webdesigner — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:31:57 GMT

Hello,I need to do a very simple modification for my custom content types.In the DocumentLibrary (simple/detailed) view all content and space nodes are displayed using following format:1. LINE: <cm:name>(<cm:title>)2. LINE <cm:description>etc….For nodes having my custom aspect I ne

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

mikeh — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:27:11 GMT

This won't help you right now, but the next release of Community will allow the first line to be overridden as part of a metadata template using a new <title> config element.

I haven't had time recently, but will write a blog post detailing the new fields soon.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

webdesigner — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:03:20 GMT

Hi Mike,

thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I can't wait until next release.

Do I have a chance to modify it on another way?

Best regards
Vitali

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

mikeh — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:55:25 GMT

Although I haven't tried it, the cm:name decorator method should have worked - did you check the JSON output from the Repository to see if your code was being run?

The only other way would be to make some of the code changes required to override the title. Take a look at r33845 in our SVN; in particular the changes to surf-doclist.lib.js and documentlibrary.js

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

webdesigner — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:59:45 GMT

Hi Mike,

thanks for helping me.

Do you mean to extend this code in surf-doclist.lib.js:
var fnProcessItem = function processItem(item)
…
         item.fileName = node.properties[DocList.PROP_NAME];
         if (node.isLink)
         {
            item.displayName = node.properties[DocList.PROP_TITLE];
         }
         else
         {
            item.displayName = node.properties[DocList.PROP_NAME];
            if (item.workingCopy)
            {
               item.displayName = item.displayName.replace(workingCopyLabel, "");
            }
         }
…

Is it only way to override the whole JS-file with my custom code? Or is there any better alternative (using extension point of Share 4.0)?

I'm developing Share extension that is deployed as an AMP and if it's been installed in the Alfresco that already has customizations in surf-doclist.lib.js, it will overwrite them all.

Thanks in advance
Best regards
Vitali

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

mikeh — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:00:35 GMT

Due to the extent of the changes required, yes you will have to overwrite some of the core Share files.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

sharifu — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:06:16 GMT

has this been implemented in 4.2.a. How do i make cm:title appear instead of cm:name in the share

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

sharifu — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:41:51 GMT

Is there an update to this?

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

afaust — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:42:54 GMT

Hello,

you can provide a <title> element in your metadata template, which can be used much like any other metadata line configuration, e.g. use {cm_title} for the link. Alternatively, you might want to use a custom renderer which can interpolate between cm:title and cm:name based on the value state - e.g. if cm:title is set, use this otherwise revert to cm:name.

I have used a custom renderer on a customer project with Alfresco 4.0.2.9 and 4.1.1 which replaces the document link of MS Office files with a link to the "Edit Online" action as the customer wanted a quick-access action in this use case.

Regards
Axel

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

sharifu — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:46:57 GMT

@Axel

I do not understand your answer. What template are you talking about?

Do I have to make this custom renderer if so how or where do i get from?

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

afaust — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:15:57 GMT

Hello,

I am talking about the Share document library customization options of Alfresco 4.x, which include the definition of how metadata is displayed for a node in the document list.
"Custom" in this context implies that the renderer would need to be implemented. I am not aware of any community projects that might provide pre-packaged renderers. A custom renderer is simply a piece of JavaScript code registered via the "registerRenderer" event.

Regards
Axel

Re: Change name/title displayment for custom nodes in th doclist

sharifu — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:17:31 GMT

can you provide example of how to do it exactly please. what files to change and what exactly on 4.0d and 4.2.c.