topic Displaying custom metadata in Alfresco in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292023#M245153 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Using the help provided by the people on this forum, I was able to add custom aspects to documents in order to set custom properties.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The next step for me would be to have a local instance of Alfresco displaying the custom properties and having them editable so that users can change their values via the web pages.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There's a good link on wiki.alfresco &lt;a&gt;</SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata</A><SPAN>&lt;/a&gt; that describes just that and I followed the instructions, but it's not working for me.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In short, I added a custom aspect called my:customAspect like this:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />AlfrescoDocument alfDoc = … // get existing document<BR />alfDoc.addAspect("P:my:customAspect");<BR /><BR />// set additional properties<BR />Map&lt;String, Object&gt; propertiesEnum = new HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;();<BR />properties.put("my:score", 152);<BR />…<BR />alfDoc.updateProperties(updateProperties);<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></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The properties were correctly added and I can see their values either programatically or by using Apache Chemistry Workbench desktop client.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In order to have the additional properties visible in Alfresco Web client, I updated the web-client-config-custom.xml file by setting:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp; &lt;config evaluator="aspect-name" condition="my:customAspect"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property-sheet&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;show-property name="my:score"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property-sheet&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/config&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately, I can't see this property listed in the Alfresco web (including the /share one) for the documents on whom I added the custom aspect.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Maybe I'm missing something, maybe there are some other xml files that should be updated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:44:55 GMT horia 2013-06-25T12:44:55Z Displaying custom metadata in Alfresco https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292023#M245153 Hi,Using the help provided by the people on this forum, I was able to add custom aspects to documents in order to set custom properties.The next step for me would be to have a local instance of Alfresco displaying the custom properties and having them editable so that users can change their values v Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:44:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292023#M245153 horia 2013-06-25T12:44:55Z Re: Displaying custom metadata in Alfresco https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292024#M245154 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The web-client-config-custom.xml file is for the old /alfresco web client, not for /share. Take a look at &lt;a href="</SPAN><A href="http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/01/09/1509" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/01/09/1509</A><SPAN>"&gt;this tutorial&lt;/a&gt; to learn how to configure both /alfresco and /share to show custom metadata. It also includes some CMIS examples you might find helpful.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:27:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292024#M245154 jpotts 2013-06-25T23:27:01Z Re: Displaying custom metadata in Alfresco https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292025#M245155 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>That tutorial is indeed what I was looking for, thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:49:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-custom-metadata-in-alfresco/m-p/292025#M245155 horia 2013-06-26T13:49:27Z