topic Re: new dialog for new space type in Alfresco Archive

new dialog for new space type

alpha — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:58:04 GMT

i want to add new fields to the space creation dialoglet's say 2 fields : fieldOne, fieldTwo (string fields).I have created a new action "Create my space" that launches a dialog<action id="create_myspace"> <permissions> <permission allow="true">CreateChildren&l

Re: new dialog for new space type

kevinr — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:30:23 GMT

Are saying that the custom dialog is working ok - but you can't see the resulting custom properties in the Details screen? This is probably because you need a little additional config to add your custom properties to that screen, see:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: new dialog for new space type

alpha — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:39:29 GMT

thanks for your help!

Are saying that the custom dialog is working ok - but you can't see the resulting custom properties in the Details screen?

in fact i don't know if it's really working, but i don't have any errors, neither can i display the custom fields…
actually, i have read that wiki page, but it didn't help me much this time…because even if i create a new content type (for my new space type) i don't know how to use it within my dialog (i want to try dialog framework, rather than wizard framework).
I just want to have an action "Create MySpace" like "Create Space" in the browse create menu, that launches a dialog like CreateSpaceDialog with more fields to fill.
I have setup the action menu, the jsp form file, and the CreateMySpaceDialog bean, i wonder if i have to create a custom model that mapps with my new fields? and if yes, how do i do to make sure that the created space is in the same type of my new content type (MySpace and not a standard space)?

Do i have to used the wizard framework, and not the dialog framework to do that?

thanks

Re: new dialog for new space type

gavinc — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:31:16 GMT

Yes, you'll need to create a new type in a model and define the extra properties you want, say for this example it's called "custom:myspace" and the properties are "custom:fieldOne" and "custom:fieldTwo".

You'll need to extend the CreateSpaceDialog class and override the init and finishImpl methods.

In the init method set the "this.spaceType" member variable to be the QName of the custom i.e. "custom:myspace".

In the finishImpl method, call the super class version and then using the this.createdNode member variable set the other properties i.e. "custom:fieldOne" and "custom:fieldTwo". This would look something like:

You'll then need to add some config to show these new properties in the property sheet by adding the following to web-client-config-custom.xml:

<config evaluator="node-type" condition="custom:myspace">
   <property-sheet>
      <show-property name="name"/>
      <show-property name="title"/>
      <show-property name="custom:fieldOne" />
      <show-property name="custom:fieldOne" />
   </property-sheet>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hope that helps!

Re: new dialog for new space type

alpha — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:58:31 GMT

thanks for the hint!
i think there is something missing in your post, when u say :

In the finishImpl method, call the super class version and then using the this.createdNode member variable set the other properties i.e. "custom:fieldOne" and "custom:fieldTwo". This would look something like:

thanks

Re: new dialog for new space type

gavinc — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:16:24 GMT

Yes, you're quite right, the missing code would look something like:


protected String finishImpl(FacesContext context, String outcome) throws Exception
{
   super.finishImpl(context, outcome);

   this.nodeService.setProperty(this.createdNode, <QName for custom:fieldOne>, value);
   this.nodeService.setProperty(this.createdNode, <QName for custom:fieldTwo>, value);

   return outcome;
}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: new dialog for new space type

alpha — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:48:51 GMT

thanks, it works fine!
I had first tried this code :


super.finishImpl(context,outcome);

Map<QName, Serializable> props = new HashMap<QName, Serializable>(3);
props.put(<QName for custom:fieldOne>, value);
props.put(<QName for custom:fieldTwo>, value);
this.nodeService.setProperties(this.createdNode, props);

return outcome;‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

but it didn't work, the integritychecker was yelling that mandatory fields creator and created were not set…weird isn't it.

i don't really know why i had this error :cry:

but it's working with your hint!

thanks

Re: new dialog for new space type

gavinc — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:14:21 GMT

It's because when you call setProperties (as opposed to setProperty) you are replacing ALL properties on the node, you therefore have to supply any mandatory properties in your hash map.

If you really want to use setProperties you'd first have to retrieve all the properties using nodeService.getProperties() and then add your properties to that hashmap and pass it back to setProperties().

What you have now is probably better as you are only setting the properties you need to. The technique above is better when you are setting several properties (it can save you making several separate setProperty calls).

Hope that makes sense!

Re: new dialog for new space type

alpha — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:33:53 GMT

this definetly makes sense! Alfresco is cool… 😎