topic How to add an extra custom button to a Share form in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-add-an-extra-custom-button-to-a-share-form/m-p/279250#M232380 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BR /><SPAN>I have been trying , in vain, to add a "Preview" button to my share form.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>After making changes to the share-config-custom.xml I did these things:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. Edit the form.lib.ftl</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is what I added to the renderFormButtons macro</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;#if form.showPreviewButton?? &amp;&amp; form.showPreviewButton&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;input id="${formId}-preview" type="button" value="${msg("form.button.cancel.label")}" /&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/#if&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. Edit my xml file in the ../site-data/template-instances folder</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I used &lt;showPreviewButton&gt;true&lt;/showPreviewButton&gt; to be able to display the button .</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Extract:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;component&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;region-id&gt;create-ediscovery-search-request-content&lt;/region-id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;url&gt;/components/form?mimeType=text/html&amp;amp;destination=${destination}&amp;amp;formId=ediscoverysearch&lt;/url&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;properties&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;itemKind&gt;type&lt;/itemKind&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;itemId&gt;cs:ediscoverysearch&lt;/itemId&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;mode&gt;create&lt;/mode&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;submitType&gt;json&lt;/submitType&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;showCaption&gt;true&lt;/showCaption&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;showCancelButton&gt;true&lt;/showCancelButton&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;showResetButton&gt;true&lt;/showResetButton&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;showPreviewButton&gt;true&lt;/showPreviewButton&gt;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/properties&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/component&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But still the button does not appear in my form.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Am I missing anything ? Or is it that one cannot declare buttons other than the predefined</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ones like (submit, reset, cancel)?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please advise.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:27:25 GMT pkanuri 2014-03-27T10:27:25Z How to add an extra custom button to a Share form https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-add-an-extra-custom-button-to-a-share-form/m-p/279250#M232380 I have been trying , in vain, to add a "Preview" button to my share form.After making changes to the share-config-custom.xml I did these things:1. Edit the form.lib.ftl&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is what I added to the renderFormButtons macro&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;#if form.showPreviewButton?? &amp;&amp; form.showPreviewButton&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:27:25 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-add-an-extra-custom-button-to-a-share-form/m-p/279250#M232380 pkanuri 2014-03-27T10:27:25Z Re: How to add an extra custom button to a Share form https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-add-an-extra-custom-button-to-a-share-form/m-p/279251#M232381 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To do this you need to make changes to org.alfresco.web.scripts.forms.FormUIGet by overriding it.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In this class you need to hande you new parameter and set that to form, so you can use it in ftl.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>like:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>formUIModel.put(MODEL_SHOW_PREVIEW_BUTTON, discoverBooleanParam(context, MODEL_SHOW_PREVIEW_BUTTON));<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:08:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-add-an-extra-custom-button-to-a-share-form/m-p/279251#M232381 lementree 2014-04-15T09:08:47Z