topic Null nodeRef when running action in Alfresco Archive

Null nodeRef when running action

ardamose123 — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:22:52 GMT

I've been developing some custom action proof of concepts. I've got to the point where I can implement an action, configure its bean, update the share-config-custom.xml file and make the action appear and show a form to collect input in Alfresco Share.The action just returns (some day) the Levenshte

Re: Null nodeRef when running action

mluraschi — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:30:00 GMT

Hi, I ran into this post because I have the same exact problem.

Last week I created a UI action with no parameters and in share-config-custom its parameter is

<param name="function">onActionSimpleRepoAction</param>‍

. It works, I am able to use the

actionedUponNodeRef‍

inside the

executeImpl(Action, NodeRef)‍

method.

Yesterday, instead, I created an action with parameters and this time I used

<param name="function">onActionFormDialog</param>‍

. The form shows up, the parameters are passed correctly, but

actionedUponNodeRef‍

null‍

executeImpl(Action, NodeRef)‍

.

Any ideas? suggestions? I am struggling to find any informations about it.

Thanks

Re: Null nodeRef when running action

mluraschi — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:03:51 GMT

Just to let the next reader know that I solved the issue by turning the action into a webscript. I added the submission-url property to the form and make it point to my webscript, so that the form will POST to it.

Apparently, onActionSimpleRepoAction, passes the ActionedUponNodeRef, but does not handle forms, while onActionFormDialog, handles forms, but simply does not pass the ActionedUponNodeRef. I spent a whole day trying to trace it back, but it seems like it just behaves that way.

Re: Null nodeRef when running action

kamielvdz — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:29:14 GMT

The answer is to add the following reference to your share action config:

<param name="destination">{node.nodeRef}</param>‍


<action id="org-form" type="javascript" label="Test form">
            <param name="function">onActionFormDialog</param>
            <param name="itemKind">action</param>
            <param name="itemId">org-form-bean</param>
            <param name="destination">{node.nodeRef}</param>
            <param name="mode">edit</param>
            <param name="successMessage">Works!</param>
            <param name="failureMessage">Fail…</param>
         </action>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Took me a while to figure out. Destination is a badly chosen parameter name, but seems to act as actionedUponNode.