topic adding metadata sets multiple times in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-metadata-sets-multiple-times/m-p/304053#M257183 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I got the following request from a user:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have Sheriff case files that are used to track investigations/citations/etc..&nbsp; We use an aspect to add case specific meta.&nbsp; They would like to be able to add an indeterminate amount of "suspects" as meta data.&nbsp; Most cases will only have one, some will have two, some more, depending on the crime and investigation, etc.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The only way I can see doing this with an aspect is picking a large number–say 8–and if you only have one, then you only fill the first field and leave the rest blank.&nbsp; This is bad for several reasons–useless clutter for most crimes, can't expand beyond 8 for the rare crime that has more, and most problematic, each of those 8 fields is technically a different field making searching across them difficult.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I haven't seen anything in the content modelling, i.e. types, aspects, properties, that would cover this.&nbsp; Am I correct?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It seems like the most likely way to make something like this happen is through association (either parent/child or peer/peer).&nbsp; It seems like, for example, the way you can comment on a document in share, and the comments show up as child nodes (actually I think with comments, there is a forum node that is a child of the document, then the comments are children of the forum.)&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyway, is this the best approach to solve this problem?&nbsp; Are there any good (simple) examples out there of how you would begin to implement this?&nbsp; I'm not entirely sure where to begin.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm guessing I'd create a type "sheriff-suspect"&nbsp; that has the necessary properties, but should it be derived from cm:content, sys:base or somewhere else?&nbsp; Any other thoughts on how you would implement something like this would be helpful.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:02:36 GMT abruzzi 2014-09-25T17:02:36Z adding metadata sets multiple times https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-metadata-sets-multiple-times/m-p/304053#M257183 I got the following request from a user:We have Sheriff case files that are used to track investigations/citations/etc..&nbsp; We use an aspect to add case specific meta.&nbsp; They would like to be able to add an indeterminate amount of "suspects" as meta data.&nbsp; Most cases will only have one, some will have Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:02:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-metadata-sets-multiple-times/m-p/304053#M257183 abruzzi 2014-09-25T17:02:36Z Re: adding metadata sets multiple times https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-metadata-sets-multiple-times/m-p/304054#M257184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>For case information I suggest you to create a new type derived from cm:content instead of using an aspect.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For suspects information :</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you just want to save suspect's name ,you can create a multiple values property in case type.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you also want to save suspect's other information(photo for exmaple),you 'd better create a new type for suspect and use&nbsp; association between case and suspect.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 06:30:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/adding-metadata-sets-multiple-times/m-p/304054#M257184 kaynezhang 2014-09-29T06:30:58Z