topic Re: merge share config customisations with other overrides in Alfresco Archive

merge share config customisations with other overrides

mxc — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:01:15 GMT

Hi there,Is there a way to have one's share customisations merged with the default or other overrides in the share-custom-config.xml file? I have tried using the attribute replace="false" but the default aspects are still overridden when adding a custom aspect.thanks

Re: merge share config customisations with other overrides

afaust — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:38:34 GMT

Hello,

when using replace="false", the default aspects shouuld not be overriden if you put your custom aspects in <aspects> / <visible>. If you put your aspects in <addable> or <removeable> instead, they will override the default ones due to the fact that these are only defined to be identical to <visible> if left empty.

In case you correctly put them in <visible> there is also the possibility of another customization / add-on module messing up your configuration to consider. Any add-on may have a share-config-custom.xml and include a configuration with replace="true" to override the default aspects. Nobody should actually put anything like that in their add-on, but unfortunately not everyone is aware they can mess up someones Share badly with it…

Regards
Axel

Re: merge share config customisations with other overrides

mxc — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:56:25 GMT

Hi Axel,

Thanks for the info. I am running in a test environment so I there are no other addons running. Your email message is not formatting properly on my chrome browser and I think I am missing some of your text. I have setup the overrides in my addon-modules.xml file as follows:


                <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" replace="false">
                    <aspects>
                        <visible>
                            <aspect name="b:docTemplate" />
                            <aspect name="b:dockable" />
                            <aspect name="b:dockableAdv" />
                        </visible>
                        <addable>
                        </addable>
                        <removeable>
                        </removeable>
                    </aspects>                
                </config>
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With the above when I try and add an aspect the defaults are no longer showing. Any pointers appreciated.

Re: merge share config customisations with other overrides

afaust — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:26:09 GMT

Hello,

that configuration looks fine. You say you've put this into addone-modules.xml - I assume this is an extension XML file where that stuff is in the <configurations> area.
Just for sports, have you tried putting that configuration into a regular *config-custom.xml file? If this configuration works there and not in the <configurations> block, this may be a bug…

Regards
Axel