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Alfresco Share content model

rutaveejshah — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:58:50 GMT

I want to create an extra field in the user profile like birth date,Desigantion and their role etc.I know for that i have to extend the content model.But i don't know in which file i would have to change. I read the example of jeff potts but i did not get much idea from that. If any one have any i

Re: Alfresco Share content model

ddraper — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:05:30 GMT

Is this the post you're referring to: http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/02/27/1555? If so, that provides all the information that you should need. What part of the information in that post are you struggling with?

Re: Alfresco Share content model

rutaveejshah — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:29:36 GMT

Is this work for alfresco community edition 4.0d?
I don't understand why i have to extend the org.alfresco.web.site.SlingshotUserFactory.

Re: Alfresco Share content model

ddraper — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:10:47 GMT

Because (as the blog post explains) that is how the user object is created.

Re: Alfresco Share content model

zladuric — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:33:43 GMT

Take a look at this blog post, it might help:
http://zlayer.net/blog/?p=302

It basically says that you can just extend a

metadata.get‍

webscript on Alfresco backend to include a few extra properties. It might suit you, it might not. It worked for me, I didn't want to recompile the SlingshotUserFactory to get one simple property.

Hope it helps.