topic Re: Adding custom properties to system objects in Alfresco Archive

Adding custom properties to system objects

schipmolder — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:11:56 GMT

Hi all,Does anybody know if it's possible to add custom properties to system objects? For example, if I'd like to add a property to a normal user, let's say a boolean 'receivedWelcomePack'?Or to add properties to the existing st:site object (we're multi-tenant).With repository objects we'd just add

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

douglascrp — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:34:35 GMT

Hello.

You can find a good sample on how to do what you want on this project https://github.com/sujaypillai/someco-people

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

schipmolder — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:20:58 GMT

Thanks Douglas, I see how you define the scp model with the shirt size property for scperson but what I don't understand is how this tells Alfresco to use scperson instead of cmerson objects.
If Alfresco still uses cmerson types surely it won't know about the shirt size property or am I missing something here?

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

douglascrp — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:11:53 GMT

Hello.
So, based on the project I shared with you, you don´t actually use scperson instead of cmerson.
If you check the xml model file carefully, you will see it's an aspect, and not a type.
In cases like this, you can write a behaviour to automaticaly attach the aspect to the person object, or you can create a folder rule and have it attaching the aspect for you.
By using aspects, you can add fields dinamicaly to any object.

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

schipmolder — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:52:39 GMT

Sorry for the late reply Douglas, the forum had been down for a while so i couldn't reply earlier.

I had not realised that these were aspects but that makes complete sense now, thanks a lot.

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

kgastaldo — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:15:45 GMT

schipmolder _ - When you say the forum was down, did you mean recently? We moved the forums a couple weeks ago, but this site shouldn't have had any issues! Can you let me know when you ran into trouble?

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

schipmolder — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:39:16 GMT

Hi Kirsten, Sorry, I meant during the migration that took a while.

I hadn't seen that the migration had completed until recently.

So, no it's not been down since the migration as far as I'm aware.

Re: Adding custom properties to system objects

kgastaldo — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:11:53 GMT

Whew. Just checking. Migration did take a good deal longer than we expected. Glad to see you in the new space!