topic Re: Edit-metadata within document-details in Alfresco Archive

Edit-metadata within document-details

dsmith — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:03:42 GMT

Alfresco version: 5.0.c CommunityI have some custom content types that need to be indexed by hand via metadata. The documents are handwritten so the users need to be able to see the document while they edit the metadata.When I was first getting my head around Alfresco, I accomplished this by direct

Re: Edit-metadata within document-details

rjohnson — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:40:23 GMT

The most future proof way of doing this is via an extension. I have done this on my sites. It takes a bit to piece it together but

https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/40-reusing-existing-alfresco-components

is an excellent place to start.

Re: Edit-metadata within document-details

dsmith — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:46:00 GMT

Thanks Bob, I'm reading through it now. I can understand the modifications you ended up making to edit-metadata.ftl (I didn't know about @markup before) but the part I'm still struggling with is how to package modifications to a ftl file into an extension (hopefully via mvn generated AMP files as that's where the rest of my customization has been), rather than just changing the template in-place.

Getting my head around how the SDK structure maps to the installation and when things like Spring and webscripts are necessary has been the most confusing part but hopefully following up on the post you linked to and others will help gel it for me.

Update - Seems like I'm about halfway there after starting to read another <a href="https://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2011/08/12/customizing-alfresco-share-freemarker-templates/">blog post</a> by Dave Draper. FTL extensibility seems to be defined by sections demarked by @region directives, or was as of 4.x.

It's when he says something like "Create a file called “dashboard.ftl” and place it in the package “alfresco.templates.blog.demo.customization“" that I'm getting a little confused - how does that package translate to the maven-created file structure of the SDK 2.0? IE where do I actually put dashboard.ftl?

Re: Edit-metadata within document-details

rjohnson — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:37:57 GMT

If you email me directly, I'll send you a JAR that will work for you to look at.