topic Re: Document Name Change Rule in Alfresco Archive

Document Name Change Rule

bigmclargehuge — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:41:26 GMT

Hey Everyone, I am fairly new to Alfresco, I just deployed the Community edition for testing a few weeks back. We have been using it with some great success. Lets get down to brass tacks. I am looking to see if there is a way to create a rule that will change the name of a document to contain the va

Re: Document Name Change Rule

rjohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:14:10 GMT

Create a Javascript that will rename the document.

It will look something like


var folderName = document.parent.name;
var docName = document.name;
document.name = folderName + " " + docName;
document.save()
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Please note I have not tested this script so it may have typos.

Load the script to Repository Data Dictionary / Scripts

Create a rule that executes a script when an item is created

Suggest you make the rule only execute on items that are NOT of type cm:folder.

Re: Document Name Change Rule

bigmclargehuge — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 02:16:00 GMT

That was perfect! It pointed me in the right direction I was able to tweak it to my needs.

Thanks again!