topic Re: CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error in Alfresco Archive

CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error

darcy — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:22:33 GMT

Hello all,I am using Alfresco 1.4.0 community. I am having trouble running a desktop action in order to change the content type to a custom type when importing via CIFS. I am not sure I understand correctly how to do it. Here is what I have:in file-servers-custom.xml: <action>

Re: CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error

darcy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:13:01 GMT

no one has any ideas?

Re: CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error

kevinr — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:20:07 GMT

The problem here is the deskParams.getTarget(0).getNode() parameter. You are correct that the Repository action API for that particular action expects a NodeRef - but the JavaScript API world deals in wrapper objects - it does not work with NodeRef instances directly. So the JavaScript 'actions' object is expecting a JavaScript Node object as the action parameter - not a NodeRef.

The workaround is to use the JavaScript 'search' object to find the node represented by the NodeRef and wrap it into the expected Node object:


function runAction()
{
   var script = actions.create("specialise-type");
   script.parameters["type-name"] = "tcs:content";
   var node = search.findNode(deskParams.getTarget(0).getNode());
   script.execute(node);
}

runAction();
var response = "0,Javascript completed successfully";
response;
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I think that should work

As far as fixing the issue - we need to either fix the jscript desktop actions objects to correctly wrap NodeRef as Node objects - or change the JavaScript 'actions' object to handle NodeRef parameters.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error

kevinr — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:25:25 GMT

I have raised a JIRA task for this:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1121

Re: CIFS desktopactions - ScriptAction.execute error

darcy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:53:09 GMT

Thanks Kevin,

Unfortunately, the 'search' object is not available to the jscript desktop action, looks like it is only available to the jscript actions in the Web Client maybe? I see it in the Javascript API on the wiki, but it is not Javascript Desktop Action. I get an error when trying to access it also.

In any event, for my particular situation I found a better way to handle the converting of the content, that was to just use a rule with the specialise-type option: http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=2527&highlight=specialise