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change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:28:04 GMT

Hi,I'm new to Alfresco, I've installed Alfresco Community 4.2c on linux under Tomcat7 I changed tomcat/conf/catalina.properties for having shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jarWhen I change aspect visibility in ${catalina.base}/shared/classes/alfresco/web-ex

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:59:07 GMT

I've tried under tomcat 6.0.37 with same result. I'm probably make a big obvious mistake but I'm a real newbie!

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

sujaypillai — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:33:00 GMT

I just tried by adding a new aspect (<aspect name="zpe:docLoggable"/>) with 3 other already existing aspects as under in


   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
         <aspects>
          <!–
            Aspects that a user can see in UI.
            Used by Rules, aspects are the listed aspects for rule's "has-aspect" action condition.
          –>
          <visible>
            <aspect name="cm:generalclassifiable" />
            <aspect name="cm:complianceable" />
            <aspect name="cm:dublincore" />
            <aspect name="zpe:docLoggable"/>
          </visible>
       </aspects>
   </config>
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and here is the result in attached image -

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:45:18 GMT

I tried like sujaypillai without any success I still have no change at all


   <!– Document Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" replace="true">

      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable" />
         </visible>
      </aspects>
   </config>
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and all the original aspects are shown but not my custom one

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

mitpatoliya — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:25:00 GMT

try after removing replace="true" attribute from your config tag.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

rjohnson — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:16:13 GMT

First be sure you have the evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" set in your config section for your aspects and I urge you not to have replace="true"

Make sure that you have empty <addable></addable> and <removable></removeable> tags in the config sections.

Make sure that your aspect definition has been included. You would put the aspect deinition in the "extension" directory in a file called {your-extension-name}-model.xml and you must tell Alfresco to include it in a file called {your-extension-context-name}-model-context.xml. I often forget to add the new model files to the model-context.xml!

If you have done all that it should work. It does for me.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:21:50 GMT

It still does not work,
Thank you for your help,
this is my config file it is located at
/java/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml
CATALINA_HOME=/java/tomcat
tomcat is 7.0.34
jre is 1.7.0.11
in catalina.properties I change
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar


<alfresco-config>

   <!– Repository Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="RepositoryLibrary" replace="true">
      <!–
         Whether the link to the Repository Library appears in the header component or not.
      –>
      <visible>true</visible>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
      <remote>
         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-noauth</id>
            <name>Alfresco - unauthenticated access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>none</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco</id>
            <name>Alfresco - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-feed</id>
            <name>Alfresco Feed</name>
            <description>Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication via the EndPointProxyServlet</description>
            <connector-id>http</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <basic-auth>true</basic-auth>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>activiti-admin</id>
            <name>Activiti Admin UI - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Activiti Admin UI, that requires user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>activiti-admin-connector</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/activiti-admin</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>
      </remote>
   </config>
   <!– Document Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" >

      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable" />
         </visible>
      </aspects>
   </config>

</alfresco-config>
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Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:17:16 GMT

Thanks everyone for your help
this is my config
1-shared/classes/alfresco/extension/DocumentComptable-model.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


<model name="custom:DocumentComptableModel" xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">

   <!– Optional meta-data about the model –>
   <description>Modele comptable</description>
   <author>Ronan</author>
   <version>1.0</version>

   <imports>
          <!– Import Alfresco Dictionary Definitions –>
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d"/>
      <!– Import Alfresco Content Domain Model Definitions –>
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm"/>
   </imports>

   <namespaces>
      <namespace uri="http://documentum.sudagri-jatropha.com/model/content/1.0" prefix="custom"/>
   </namespaces>
        <constraints>
                <constraint name="custom:listTypesPieceComptable" type="LIST">
                        <parameter name="allowedValues">
                                <list>
                                    <value>Facture achat</value>
                                    <value>Facture vente</value>
                                    <value>Cheque</value>
                                    <value>Masse salariale</value>
                                </list>
                        </parameter>
                </constraint>
        </constraints>
        <aspects>
                <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable">
                <title>Document Comptable</title>
                        <properties>
                                <property name="custom:CodePieceComptable">
                                        <title>Numero piece comptable</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>true</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:TypePieceComptable">
                                        <title>Type de piece comptable</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>true</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                        <constraints>
                                                <constraint ref="custom:listTypesPieceComptable" />
                                        </constraints>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:Echeance">
                                        <title>Echance piece</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:Montant">
                                        <title>Montant total piece</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                        </properties>
                </aspect>
        </aspects>
</model>
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2- shared/classes/alfresco/extension/DocumentComptable-model-context.xml


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

    <!– Registration of new models –>
    <bean id="extension.dictionaryBootstrap" parent="dictionaryModelBootstrap" depends-on="dictionaryBootstrap">
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/DocumentComptable-model.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>
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3- shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml


<alfresco-config>

   <!– Repository Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="RepositoryLibrary" replace="true">
      <!–
         Whether the link to the Repository Library appears in the header component or not.
      –>
      <visible>true</visible>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
      <remote>
         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-noauth</id>
            <name>Alfresco - unauthenticated access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>none</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco</id>
            <name>Alfresco - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-feed</id>
            <name>Alfresco Feed</name>
            <description>Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication via the EndPointProxyServlet</description>
            <connector-id>http</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <basic-auth>true</basic-auth>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>activiti-admin</id>
            <name>Activiti Admin UI - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Activiti Admin UI, that requires user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>activiti-admin-connector</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/activiti-admin</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>
      </remote>
   </config>
   <!– Document Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" >

      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable" />
         </visible>
      </aspects>
   </config>

</alfresco-config>
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Except catalina.properties for the shared class loader that is all I modified

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

rjohnson — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:23:46 GMT

This looks OK. One of my original comments did not come out because I forgot code tags. Could you try



   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" >

 

      <aspects>

         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>

         <visible>

            <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable" />

         </visible>
         <!– Aspects that a user can add. Same as "visible" if left empty –>
         <addable>
         </addable>
         <!– Aspects that a user can remove. Same as "visible" if left empty –>
         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>

   </config>
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This should be unnecessary.

Have you checked Alfresco.log and Share.log for errors?

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:35:43 GMT

Thank you rjonhson for all the time you spend for helping me.
I tried your code (in fact just adding empty addable and removeable tags isn't it?)
This is my tomcat log, my alfresco log and my share log I'm new to alfresco and my eyes did not seen any bad line.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

rjohnson — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:52:54 GMT

I don't get this. I have this any number of times and it simply works. The only thing you have done that I never did was to alter the shared loader location but I cannot see how that would matter and your test suggests that it is being recognised.

This only leaves me with the idea that share-config-custom.xml is not being read and the onlt test I can suggest for that is to deliberately make it mal formed. If you get an error its being read, if not, it isn't. The other thing I would suggest is putting Alfresco in debug mode by settingthe appropriate items for the repository and share in log4j.properties.

I wish I could be of more help, but this just works for me.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:05:22 GMT

I made the basic test to make an error in share-config-custom.xml and it makes an obvious error:


2013-12-06 09:47:58,017  ERROR [extensions.config.BaseConfigService] [localhost-startStop-1] Input stream invalid - skipped for source: classpath:alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml'
 org.springframework.extensions.config.ConfigException: 11060000 Failed to parse config stream
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.xml.XMLConfigService.parse(XMLConfigService.java:224)
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.BaseConfigService.appendConfig(BaseConfigService.java:268)
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.BaseConfigService.parse(BaseConfigService.java:298)
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.xml.XMLConfigService.initConfig(XMLConfigService.java:132)
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.BaseConfigService.init(BaseConfigService.java:95)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
…
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 64 of document  : La balise de fin pour le type d'élément "removeable" doit se terminer par un délimiteur '>'. Nested exception: La balise de fin pour le type d'élément "removeable" doit se terminer par un délimiteur '>'.
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482)
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343)
        at org.springframework.extensions.config.xml.XMLConfigService.parse(XMLConfigService.java:212)
        … 37 more
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Next I remove the shared loader from tomcat (but let {$catalina_base}/shared/classes in the classpath and I got the same not visible aspect
Finally I remove shared/classes from my classpath but now Alfresco is not working I get in the web interface:


A problem has occurred. 
This page could not be rendered: 
document-details 
Please notify your system administrator.
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the shared.loader modification I made is automatically done on windows with the official installer, I checked the line is exactly the same in the tomcat7 bundled in the windows installer, I'll try to make a virtual machine under windows with my custom aspect and my share-config-custom.xml under windows for seeing what happens.
On linux I must make a manual installation. But tomcat is tomcat and java is java so it can run!

running in DEBUG mode lin log4j is a good idea but I don't know wich items I need, there is a lot of items and putting all in debug will result in a unreadable log

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

sujaypillai — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:05:00 GMT

With everything back in proper place (after removing all changes from share-config-custom.xml ) try placing your aspect directly in tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\share-documentlibrary-config.xml and try to check whether it reflects in UI.

Also try applying the aspect by Javascript:


doc.addAspect("custom:DocumentComptable");
doc.save();
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and let us know what happens.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

rjohnson — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:10:16 GMT

The good news is that I have cut & pasted your model and context into files on my test VM (I did remove the blank lines) and they work perfectly. The attached screen grab shows your new aspect (you would need to add a desscription for it in a message bundle).

But I guess this is also the bad news because if it works for me it should work for you. The XML is as below.. but its the same as yours

DocumentComptable-model-context.xml


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>
<beans>
    <!– Registration of new models –>
    <bean id="extension.dictionaryBootstrap" parent="dictionaryModelBootstrap" depends-on="dictionaryBootstrap">
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/DocumentComptable-model.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>
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DocumentComptable-model.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<model name="custom:DocumentComptableModel" xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">
   <!– Optional meta-data about the model –>
   <description>Modele comptable</description>
   <author>Ronan</author>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <imports>
          <!– Import Alfresco Dictionary Definitions –>
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d"/>
      <!– Import Alfresco Content Domain Model Definitions –>
      <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm"/>
   </imports>

   <namespaces>
      <namespace uri="http://documentum.sudagri-jatropha.com/model/content/1.0" prefix="custom"/>
   </namespaces>
        <constraints>
                <constraint name="custom:listTypesPieceComptable" type="LIST">
                        <parameter name="allowedValues">
                                <list>
                                    <value>Facture achat</value>
                                    <value>Facture vente</value>
                                    <value>Cheque</value>
                                    <value>Masse salariale</value>
                                </list>
                        </parameter>
                </constraint>
        </constraints>
        <aspects>
                <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable">
                <title>Document Comptable</title>
                        <properties>
                                <property name="custom:CodePieceComptable">
                                        <title>Numero piece comptable</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>true</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:TypePieceComptable">
                                        <title>Type de piece comptable</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>true</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                        <constraints>
                                                <constraint ref="custom:listTypesPieceComptable" />
                                        </constraints>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:Echeance">
                                        <title>Echance piece</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                                <property name="custom:Montant">
                                        <title>Montant total piece</title>
                                        <type>d:text</type>
                                        <protected>false</protected>
                                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                                        <multiple>false</multiple>
                                </property>
                        </properties>
                </aspect>
        </aspects>
</model>
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and the section from my share-config-custom.xml looks like:-


   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
         <!–
         Used by the "Manage Aspects" action

         For custom aspects, remember to also add the relevant i18n string(s)
            cm_myaspect=My Aspect
      –>
      <aspects>
         <!– Aspects that a user can see –>
         <visible>
            <aspect name="fgpt:onHold"/>
            <aspect name="fgpt:cancelled"/>
            <aspect name="fgpt:printaspect"/>
            <aspect name="fgic:assigned"/>
            <aspect name="custom:DocumentComptable" />
         </visible>
         <!– Aspects that a user can add. Same as "visible" if left empty –>
         <addable>
         </addable>
         <!– Aspects that a user can remove. Same as "visible" if left empty –>
         <removeable>
         </removeable>
      </aspects>
</config>
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So, what you have written works.

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:17:36 GMT

Thanks everyone;
rjohnson: thanks now I'm looking for a tomcat misconfiguration
sujaypillai: putting the aspect in the first line in tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\share-documentlibrary-config.xml does not work, also commenting all the aspect in tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\share-documentlibrary-config.xml does not change the UI, all aspects are still there!!!!

Re: change to shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml does not do anything

eltorio — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:11:00 GMT

I cannot explain why, but in a virtual machine with the same linux distrib I install the linux installer. Next I deleted tomcat/webapps/alfresco and tomcat/webapps/share , After that I replace alfresco.war and share.war from my VM , started tomcat and…

IT APPEARS in UI without any other change…

Now it does not work:
first I change my namespace to sudagri
1- string is not displayed (ie shown as apect.sudagri_DocumentComptable and not as "Document Comptable")
2- I can add by pressing the + but there is no x for removing it (<removeable> is empty in the config)
3- If I add and save I have no new properties in the document…

Again and again thanks a lot because I only progress with your help