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Alfresco 4.2d Share: Customization of My Tasks

kizman77 — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:35:35 GMT

Hi everyone,I am trying to customize "My Tasks" in order to remove unnecessary fields (status, label) and to put something else to be a main (clickable) title of the task (For 'Send for Review and Approve' workflow it is not practical to use "description" as a title as it might be a long one. I foun

Re: Alfresco 4.2d Share: Customization of My Tasks

govinda — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:14:51 GMT

You can customize my task by simply doing changes in client side java script my task files

Re: Alfresco 4.2d Share: Customization of My Tasks

kizman77 — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:29:05 GMT

Thanks Govinda, but I wanted to avoid messing up directly with out-of-the-box files and use extension model instead.

I could have changed the .js file directly in its directory, but isn't that bad practice? It is better to always use extension points to be safe in case of patches and upgrades.

Re: Alfresco 4.2d Share: Customization of My Tasks

govinda — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:38:15 GMT

You can even extend the client side js files/methods as YUI follows prototype oriented approach. See the documentlist.js and how the views are extending the core Alfresco.DocumentList and Alfresco.DocumentListViewRenderer. The same is applicable to My Task as well

Re: Alfresco 4.2d Share: Customization of My Tasks

niketapatel — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:29:27 GMT

Hi Kizzman,

Your approach looks OK to extend OOB module.
If I understand correctly, You have issue with - task-list.get.html.ftl. Your client side js task-list-custom.js is not getting picked up.

Initially, I was evaluating 4.2 Community and I believe, this dependency loading of target="js", target="css" yet not implemented!

I saw comment in this file - webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco-mm-galleryview\components\documentlibrary\documentlist.get.head.ftl

Comment: "TODO: move dependency loading to documentlist.get.html.ftl once target="js", target="css" complete on 4.0 line "

I am not sure for 4.2d but You can confirm it, If this is the case then you need to inject your js dependency in head.ftl

I checked 4.2Pr and its implemented in it - http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/tasks/dev-extensions-share-tutorials-customizing-widget-instantiation.html

Hope it helps!