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Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:24:47 GMT

Hiis there a way to view Aspect I created via Java (OpenCmis) on line with Alfresco Explorer ?and search they which have some value ?I created a model that Alfresco load on startup vith some properties and I just want view on line them !Thanks

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:47:34 GMT

Please read this tutorial:
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/01/09/1509

Which covers how to define custom types and aspects, how to configure those custom types and aspects to show up in both Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share, and how to work with instances of those types and aspects with CMIS.

If you work through that tutorial successfully and still have questions, please come back and provide the code you are attempting to use and any error messages you are seeing.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:30:19 GMT

HI

I think it's too generic and shuffled that tutorial though it's easy and clear about author mean.
But I don't know which tags take….

I just want my aspect properties are shown when I click on the detail icon…if it is possible

please can you tell the paragraph, or page to get only and only those tags i need ?

Regards
Fabio

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:46:22 GMT

"Part 2: Configuring Alfresco Share" starts on page 18.

"Configuring Forms for Custom Properties" starts on page 22.

"Configuring the form service for custom properties" starts on page 23.

Listing 7 shows how to do it.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:45:53 GMT

Hi Jeff
I can't let it gone:

this is my share config custom xml

<alfresco-config>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="lynx:docType"/>
            <aspect name="lynx:refId" />
         </visible>

         <addable>
         </addable>

         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>
   </config>
   <config evaluator="aspect" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" />
            </field-visibility>
         <appearance>
            <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
            <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
         </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form id="search">
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
            <appearance>
               <field id="lynxType">
                  <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/lynxType.ftl"/>
               </field>
            </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>
</alfresco-config>

this is the slinghot app

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<beans>

   <bean id="someco.resources"
   class="org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.ResourceBundleBootstrapComponent">
      <property name="resourceBundles">
         <list>
            <value>alfresco.web-extension.messages.lynxModel</value>
         </list>
      </property>
   </bean>
</beans>

and this is the prop file

aspect.lynx_documentable=Document Properties
prop.lynx_docType=Document Type
prop.lynx_refId=ID Number

where am I wrong?

Regards

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:26:08 GMT

Try adding a third config element for "node-type" that is a copy of your "model-type" config element, like this:

<config evaluator="node-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
<forms>
<form>
<field-visibility>
<show id="lynx:docType" />
<show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
</field-visibility>
<appearance>
<field id="lynxType">
<control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/lynxType.ftl"/>
</field>
</appearance>
</form>
</forms>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Also note that I am removing the id attribute from the form tag for this config element.

The "model-type" config is used for creating new nodes while the "node-type" config is used for existing nodes.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:59:25 GMT

Hi Jeff

going too fastly I supposed and then forgot that the ftl string is not a key, but really a template file…I can't do it, it is not mentioned…
Infact that's why I left it behind…..

that ftl extension appear when I want to apply a model on the top of the detail…it can be OK, but I'd rather prefer the properties to appear just
in the detail box if possible……

I choosed another model by chance and on the list of its properties, the mine also appear..but that model is ugly….I don't like it even because there too many prop….

so is that ftl template important or not….on the detail tab can them appear ?

Regards

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:20:22 GMT

Yes, you can take out that control template and Share will use the default control template based on the data type of that property.

Yes, when you use this form configuration, your custom properties will show up in the "Properties" collapsible section on the document details page in Share.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:22:28 GMT

Hi Jeff

I get this on Alfresco start up log

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 2 in XML document from file [C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\custom-slingshot-application-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:186)
   … 50 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131)

the xml file is above listed

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:03:51 GMT

Can you make sure that your custom-slingshot-application-context.xml file has the DOCTYPE specified, like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>
<beans>
…‍‍‍‍

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:55:37 GMT

Hi Jeff

now it starts, but I still can't see my properties

let's summarize

share-config-custom.xml

<alfresco-config>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="lynx:docType"/>
            <aspect name="lynx:refId" />
         </visible>

         <addable>
         </addable>

         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>
   </config>
   <config evaluator="aspect" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" />
            </field-visibility>
         <appearance>
            <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
            <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
         </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form id="search">
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
         </form>
      </forms>
</config>

</alfresco-config>

custom-slingshot-application-context

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

   <bean id="someco.resources"
   class="org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.ResourceBundleBootstrapComponent">
      <property name="resourceBundles">
         <list>
            <value>alfresco.web-extension.messages.lynxModel</value>
         </list>
      </property>
   </bean>
</beans>

lynxModel.properties

aspect.lynx_documentable=Document Properties
prop.lynx_docType=Document Type
prop.lynx_refId=ID Number

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:56:39 GMT

note that I removed the ftl tags, am I right ?

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:25:03 GMT

That's why they aren't showing up. You must have the appearance tags, like this:

<appearance>
<field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
<field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
</appearance>‍‍‍‍

So you must have both the field-visibility section with show elements and the appearance element with field elements, even if you are not overriding the default field controls.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:42:42 GMT

I m sorry Jeff….again

<alfresco-config>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="lynx:docType"/>
            <aspect name="lynx:refId" />
         </visible>

         <addable>
         </addable>

         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>
   </config>
   <config evaluator="aspect" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" />
            </field-visibility>
         <appearance>
            <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
            <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
         </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form id="search">
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
            <appearance>
               <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
               <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
            </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
            <appearance>
               <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
               <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
            </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
</config>

</alfresco-config>

custom-slingshot-application-context

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

<bean id="someco.resources"
class="org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.ResourceBundleBootstrapComponent">
<property name="resourceBundles">
<list>
<value>alfresco.web-extension.messages.lynxModel</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>

lynxModel.properties

aspect.lynx_documentable=Document Properties
prop.lynx_docType=Document Type
prop.lynx_refId=ID Number

Regards

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:08:39 GMT

You are listing these two aspects in your <aspects> section:

<aspect name="lynx:docType"/>
<aspect name="lynx:refId" />‍‍

But then in your form config, you are listing these as if they are properties:

<field-visibility>
<show id="lynx:docType" />
<show id="lynx:refId" />
</field-visibility>
<appearance>
<field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
<field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
</appearance>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

These two properties appear to belong to the lynx:documentable aspect. So your aspects element should look like:

<aspect name="lynx:documentable"/>‍

So fix that, then add the aspect to a document and see if those properties are displayed.

If they are not, please take a screenshot of the node in the node browser showing that the aspect has been applied to the node and that the properties have values. You can upload your screenshot to imgur.com and then include it here with an [image][/image] tag. Also take a screenshot of the detail page showing the absence of the properties.

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:16:33 GMT

Hi Jeff

I have used a template already present in the system and as you can see my prop appear

[img]http://i.imgur.com/8tewP.jpg[/img]

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:22:37 GMT

I updated the the file, but it dosn't work anyway

<alfresco-config>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="lynx:documentable"/>
         </visible>

         <addable>
         </addable>

         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>
   </config>
   <config evaluator="aspect" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" />
            </field-visibility>
         <appearance>
            <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
            <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
         </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form id="search">
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
            <appearance>
               <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
               <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
            </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="lynx:documentable">
      <forms>
         <form>
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="lynx:docType" />
               <show id="lynx:refId" force="true" />
            </field-visibility>
            <appearance>
               <field id="lynx:docType" label-id="prop.lynx_docType" />
               <field id="lynx:refId" label-id="prop.lynx_refId" />
            </appearance>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>

</alfresco-config>

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:10:03 GMT

am I missing something else ?

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

jpotts — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:05:22 GMT

That's a screenshot of the Explorer client. But you want these to show up in the Share client, right?

Jeff

Re: Viewing (managing) Aspect on line

fabernate — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:34:50 GMT

Yes, I want those properties to show up on the details…
if I have understood what you meant….

what do you mean for 'these' ?

Thanks