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Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:31:44 GMT

Hi !I'm trying to customize the Add Content Wizard/Dialog, to do some special processing for some file types.I successfully created a AddCustomContentDialog for the "addContent" navigation case.But now I want to customize the "Modify Content Properties" bean to do some stuff in the finishImpl(). So

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:49:11 GMT

Anyone ??

Is it possible to customize existing dialog to change only the managed bean ? Am I doing it wrong ??

Can't find documentation about overriding dialogs …

Re: Custom Add Content

gavinc — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:06:30 GMT

It all looks to be configured correctly to me.

Where have you placed your web-client-config-custom.xml? Do you have another web-client-config-custom.xml anywhere in your setup?

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:10:39 GMT

I only have one web-client-config-custom.xml placed in the shared/extension folder.

I know that it's read because I got custom types I defined in it and they work well.

Re: Custom Add Content

gavinc — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:27:35 GMT

Can you turn on debugging in log4j.properties for the following classes and post the contents of the alfresco.log file after you have tried opening your custom edit properties page?

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler=info‍

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:46:34 GMT

I got no additional output …

Did you notice the fact that I want to use a custom managed bean but the original jsp ?? Could it be the reason it doesn't work ?

Re: Custom Add Content

gavinc — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:07:27 GMT

Yes I did, it shouldn't make any difference to be honest.

My mistake the line should have been the following:

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler=debug‍

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:27:12 GMT

Here is the result :

10:22:56,999 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Passing outcome 'addConte
nt' to original navigation handler
10:22:56,999 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: []
10:23:36,417 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] handleNavigation (fromAct
ion=#{AddCustomDialog.finish}, outcome=dialog:setContentProperties)
10:23:36,417 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Current view id: /jsp/ext
ension/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Opening dialog 'setConten
tProperties'
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Pushed current view to st
ack: /jsp/extension/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Found config for dialog '
setContentProperties': org.alfresco.web.config.DialogsConfigElement$DialogConfig
@795d5f (name=setContentProperties page=/jsp/content/edit-content-properties.jsp
managed-bean=SetContentPropertiesDialog actions-config-id=null icon=/images/ico
ns/details_large.gif title=null titleId=modify_content_properties description=nu
ll descriptionId=edit_content_description errorMsgId=error_dialog)
10:23:36,480 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: [/jsp/extensi
on/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp]
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] handleNavigation (fromAct
ion=#{DialogManager.finish}, outcome=dialog:close:browse)
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Current view id: /jsp/dia
log/container.jsp
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Closing dialog with an ov
erridden outcome of 'browse'
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Passing outcome 'browse'
to original navigation handler
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: []

As I thought, the navigationHandler doesn't see my overridden configuration for this jsp…

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:04:02 GMT

Is there a way with log4j to see if the reading of the web-client-config-custom is ok for this section ???

Re: Custom Add Content

gavinc — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:41:55 GMT

Ahh, I see the problem.

When the wizard finishes creating the node the "setContentProperties" dialog is called not the "editContentProperties" dialog indicated by the line below:

10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Opening dialog 'setContentProperties' 
‍‍

You'll therefore need to extend SetContentPropertiesDialog instead and override the config for "setContentProperties".

Re: Custom Add Content

vbaudry — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:50:48 GMT

Yes ! It's working now ! Thanks a lot