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Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:59:49 GMT

I am trying to have Share let the user create new documents based on a custom type I implemented (see the excellent documentation here <a>http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-content/content-article-2ed.pdf</a>)I had the type implemented and defined aspects, but I can't see a

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

mitpatoliya — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:26:55 GMT

You just need to add one config in your share-config-custom.xml


  <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
 <types>
         <type name="cm:content">         
          <subtype name="custom:contentType" />            
         </type>
      </types>

</config>
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Have you added this entry?

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:11:52 GMT

this won't change the list of content types to be created in the dropdown menu options

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:00:54 GMT

I don't even know where the types of documents to be created come from, they are not listed in any .xml

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

rjohnson — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:11:13 GMT

Well according to this post

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/add-own-content-types-create-content-menu

(see item 10) all you need to do is add


<!– Document Library config section –>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
   <create-content>
      <content id="plain-text" mimetype="text/plain" label="criar-conteudo.text" itemid="axcl:cliente" icon="ax"/>
   </create-content>
</config>
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in share-config-custom.xml in 4.0e (and presumably later)

Acknowledgement to Itardioli

It used to be much harder than that in earlier versions. Which version are you on.

Bob

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

mitpatoliya — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:26:23 GMT

Yeah, bob is right I just misread your question. Apologies.

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:57:00 GMT

thanks, Bob, but this won't help.

I'm using a file called share-config-custom.xml placed under \tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension. Alfresco 4.2c

Here is how the added section looks like:


        <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
           <create-content>
         <content id="plain-text" mimetype="text/plain" label="wavemachines.text" itemid="sc:doc"/>
      </create-content>
   </config>
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Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:14:25 GMT

I discovered that once I include this section into

share-form-config.xml‍

, the new content type is shown.
This means that my

share-config-custom.xml‍

is ignored, how could that be?

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

rjohnson — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:28:00 GMT

Your share-config-custom.xml is in the wrong place. You need to put it in a directory

\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension

not

\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension

thats where mine is and it definately picks it up from there.

Bob

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

horia — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:32:19 GMT

no, the file was in the good place, otherwise it won't be used by Share, but by Explorer.

my problem was that the custom settings file contained some type declarations and aspects that influenced the content type settings. Obviously, the order of declarations is very important

thanks for the help

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

tchoupitoulos — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:26:07 GMT

Is there a way to define the menu to JUST display my custom types, and not show entries for Plain Text, HTML, XML?

Would be great if there was a reference somewhere for all of the Share configuration elements that come out of the box.

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

rjohnson — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:15:26 GMT

Copy the entire standard


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
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section into share-config-custom.xml and remove what you no longer want.

Then I think if you make the first line of the config in share-config-custom.xml


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" replace="true">
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this will replace the existing config as opposed to adding to it.

Bob Johnson

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

tchoupitoulos — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:16:12 GMT

I'll give that a shot.

Re: Creating content of custom type in Share

sindhu — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:24:59 GMT

Could any one mention the detailed procedure of creating custom folder types in alfresco share?