topic Re: Tag sorting in Alfresco Archive

Tag sorting

roblloyd — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:20:09 GMT

I am using the community version running on Centos 5.5. I did search first but couldn't find what I was looking for so here's my question.Under document library we have a lot of tags. How do I change the tags to sort alphanumerically instead of by how many results there are? I'm using this to do ins

Re: Tag sorting

marco_altieri — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:34:46 GMT

The webscript that returns the list of tags in the "document list" page is:
org/alfresco/repository/tagging/tagscope-tags.get.desc.xml

You should override in your extension folder the file org/alfresco/repository/tagging/tagscope-tags.get.json.ftl
adding a sort_by:


<#if (noscopefound?? && noscopefound)>
{
   "tags" : []
}
<#else>
   {
      "tags" : [
         <#import "tagging.lib.ftl" as taggingLib/>
         <#list tags?sort_by("name") as item>
            <@taggingLib.tagJSON item=item />
            <#if item_has_next>,</#if>
         </#list>
      ]
   }
</#if>
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This is the easiest way to do it, but it could be better to avoid a double sort of the list. To do it, you should modify the services used by this script…

Re: Tag sorting

roblloyd — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:32:31 GMT

Thank you! That worked perfectly. It's a very small install (5 users) so this double sort works fine for them.

Re: Tag sorting

ataylor — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:08:24 GMT

Where exactly is this 'extension directory'? I assume it is under <alfresco-dir>/tomcat/shared/classes but I have made several attempts to put the ftl script in a logical directory there and then 'refresh scripts' but it did not work. I was able to put the ftl script in the alfresco directory under <alfresco-dir>/tomcat/webapps/alfresco (I know - I should not - I would rather not) and was able to make that work, but I would prefer to learn where these scripts should be located under the 'extensions' directory. I am using version 4.0.c.

Re: Tag sorting

mikeh — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:37:54 GMT

Where exactly is this 'extension directory'? I assume it is under <alfresco-dir>/tomcat/shared/classes but I have made several attempts to put the ftl script in a logical directory there and then 'refresh scripts' but it did not work. I was able to put the ftl script in the alfresco directory under <alfresco-dir>/tomcat/webapps/alfresco (I know - I should not - I would rather not) and was able to make that work, but I would prefer to learn where these scripts should be located under the 'extensions' directory. I am using version 4.0.c.

Please see http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/ws-component-place.html

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Tag sorting

ataylor — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:49:53 GMT

Are these extension/override directories read during a webscript refresh, or are they only read on system startup?

Re: Tag sorting

boiss007 — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:17:27 GMT

I needed to do the same on a community 4.2.e and 5.0 so i give here my dirty solution, the alfresco's mechanism to deal with tag- or other datalist has changed…. i needed a quick fix, it's certainly not the best solution…

In tomcat/webapps/share/components/tag-filter :
_save tag-filter-min.js and tag-filter.js to tag-filter-min.js.original and tag-filter.js.original
_modify tag-filter.js :


diff tag-filter.js tag-filter.js.original 
38,47d37
< /**
< * We need a sorting function for our array of tag Objects
< **/
< function sortByKey(array, key) {
<     return array.sort(function(a, b) {
<         var x = a[key]; var y = b[key];
<         return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
<     });
< };
< 
218,219d207
<    // We need to sort the tags array by name….
<       tags = sortByKey(tags, 'name');
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_create the tag-filter-min.js (with yuicompressor)

Ideally the sorting could b done on the server side, but it works and doesn't seems to impact alfresco's performance :°)

Re: Tag sorting

ioudas — Tue, 19 May 2015 16:37:10 GMT

This doesnt really match up with 5.0 A code wise.

Do you have a whole file you could share?

Re: Tag sorting

talleyrand — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:33:23 GMT

Did you try tag sorting with Community 5.0.d version?

Re: Tag sorting

daballiemo — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:57:16 GMT

still works for 201707 Community Edition:

create directory

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/tagging

In this directory create the file tagscope-tags.get.json.ftl with the following contents:

<#if (noscopefound?? && noscopefound)>

{

"tags" : []

}

<#else>

{

"tags" : [

<#import "tagging.lib.ftl" as taggingLib/>

<#list tags?sort_by("name") as item>

<@taggingLib.tagJSON item=item />

<#if item_has_next>,</#if>

</#list>

]

}

</#if>

stop and start Alfresco and tags are sorted alfabetically