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Potential Share Association Issue

eamell — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:05:35 GMT

I have a client on Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.2 who wants to be able to click the attachments for a custom type to be able to navigate to the attachments. A quick look at the Forms wiki and this seems pretty straight forward. I added the following to my Share custom config:<field id="cm:attachment

Re: Potential Share Association Issue

afaust — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:45:15 GMT

Hello,

if you leave out the template on your control, this problem should solve itself.
The cm:attachments association is tied to a specific aspect, so it is not always set. In situations where it isn't set (does not have a value), the Forms service Alfresco of the Repository does not generate the necessary description for Share to build a field upon it. When you put a control with a template on a field in Share form configuration, you are essentially doing a force=true, but without the necessary Repository data, e.g. for labels and stuff. If you don't, the default behavior is to only show a field if it actually applies to the current node. Share will automatically use the association.ftl without you having to specify it manually.

This is an explicit "transient" field behavior of Alfresco for use-cases where you want to build your own form without having a clear-cut data model on the Repository.

Regards
Axel

Re: Potential Share Association Issue

eamell — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:00:00 GMT

If I leave out the template then there are no links to click the document. I need to customize the control with the displayMode and showTargetLink. I tried explicitly setting force to false but I guess having the template overrides it.

Re: Potential Share Association Issue

eamell — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:16:21 GMT

Maybe I should try reading your post . I get what you were saying now. I need the control and the control params but not the template attribute of the control. Thanks for the help that worked!

Re: Potential Share Association Issue

eamell — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:18:04 GMT

So just to clarify for anyone else seeing this issue my config should have read:


<field id="cm:attachments">
   <control>
      <control-param name="displayMode">list</control-param>
      <control-param name="showTargetLink">true</control-param>
   </control>
</field>
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