topic Aspect gone, but properties persist in Alfresco Archive

Aspect gone, but properties persist

srowsell — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:53:30 GMT

I will describe a situation, and perhaps someone will be able to think of a way out of it.I had a model which turned out to be problematic. The name of the aspect was "sm:documenttype", and its property of interest was "sm:documentType". The closeness of these names caused some confusion for Alfre

Re: Aspect gone, but properties persist

mrogers — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:31:00 GMT

The search index will also have the old property and type values.

Had you removed the aspect from the affected nodes then it would have also removed the properties associated with that aspect. Now you have residual properties.

I suggest you add a very different namespace for your new model and ignore the old junk. If the old junk bothers you then you will need to continue fixing it with database scripts. And then reindex.

Re: Aspect gone, but properties persist

srowsell — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:22:28 GMT

My script did remove the aspects, which is why I'm confused about the presence of the properties.

As it happens, I'm already doing it the way you suggested: I have created a new model which can't have its aspects and properties confused, and I'm in the process of attaching the new aspect now. The old properties would bother someone with OCD, I suppose, but I'll find a way to ignore them. I just can't justify spending any more time on the old model.