topic How to override a (corrupt) dynamic content model with a bootstrapped one? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a/m-p/280801#M233931 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A &lt;strong&gt;corrupt dynamic content model&lt;/strong&gt; to Alfresco (5.0.d CE) was deployed and activated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>By corrupt I mean, the content model is not valid, because a wrong type has been used which does not exist. Something like:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;property name="my:name"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type&gt;test&lt;/type&gt;<BR />&lt;/property&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>where "test" is obviously not valid - but the mistake in the model does not really matter here.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, this content model was deployed dynamically to the</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />Repository &gt; Data Dictionary &gt; Models <BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>and then unfortunately &lt;strong&gt;activated via Alfresco API call&lt;/strong&gt; (and not via Share UI; since the Share UI usually checks if a model is valid before actually allowing to activate it).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This causes the Alfresco repository to not start anymore but fail with the error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />2016-01-19 18:17:11,780 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] [localhost-startStop-1] Context initialization failed<BR />org.alfresco.service.namespace.NamespaceException: A namespace prefix is not registered for uri my.test.model<BR />on booting up.<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question is now, &lt;strong&gt;how to deactivate this corrupt model again&lt;/strong&gt; without having access to the running Alfresco repository instance, this not able to access the Data Dictionary &gt; Models folder anymore.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;strong&gt;I already tried to deploy a customModel.xml and custom-model-context.xml with the same model name&lt;/strong&gt; etc. inside to the /alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension folder, but this does not seem to override the dynamic model. When booting up Alfresco, I still get the error above.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas anybody? Thanks!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Just for reference, this is the customModel.xml file that I use to override the old one:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;!– Custom Model –&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;!– Note: This model is pre-configured to load at startup of the Repository.&nbsp; So, all custom –&gt;<BR />&lt;!–&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; types and aspects added here will automatically be registered –&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;model name="my:testModel" xmlns="<A href="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0</A>"&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Optional meta-data about the model –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;Custom Model&lt;/description&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;author&gt;&lt;/author&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;version&gt;1.0&lt;/version&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;imports&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Import Alfresco Dictionary Definitions –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;import uri="<A href="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0</A>" prefix="d"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Import Alfresco Content Domain Model Definitions –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;import uri="<A href="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0</A>" prefix="cm"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/imports&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Introduction of new namespaces defined by this model –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– NOTE: The following namespace custom.model should be changed to reflect your own namespace –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;namespaces&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;namespace uri="my.test.model" prefix="my"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/namespaces&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;/model&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;hr/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>A useful answer has been provided on StackOverflow: </SPAN><A href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34883278/alfresco-how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a-bootstrapped/34886741" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34883278/alfresco-how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a-bootstrapped/34886741</A><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:42:24 GMT mathias_lin 2016-01-19T17:42:24Z How to override a (corrupt) dynamic content model with a bootstrapped one? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a/m-p/280801#M233931 A &lt;strong&gt;corrupt dynamic content model&lt;/strong&gt; to Alfresco (5.0.d CE) was deployed and activated.By corrupt I mean, the content model is not valid, because a wrong type has been used which does not exist. Something like:&lt;property name="my:name"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type&gt;test&lt;/type&gt;&amp;l Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:42:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a/m-p/280801#M233931 mathias_lin 2016-01-19T17:42:24Z Re: How to override a (corrupt) dynamic content model with a bootstrapped one? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a/m-p/280802#M233932 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>My solution for now was to delete parts of the /alf_data/contentstore/ (I roughly knew at what time the model has been deployed). Since it's all in .bin format, I'm not sure what other files I deleted as well, but it weren't too many <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Afterwards, Alfresco at least starts again.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:23:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-override-a-corrupt-dynamic-content-model-with-a/m-p/280802#M233932 mathias_lin 2016-01-19T19:23:17Z