topic Re: Category property in Alfresco Archive

Category property

hsp — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:52:42 GMT

Is the category a property that is configurable on the repository directly?I mean, If I want to develop directly using the jackrabbit api and need to control the categorization of the contents (each category has a timelife), is it possible to configure this property without needing to control this m

Re: Category property

hsp — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:06:32 GMT

Well, any comments?

Is the category property part of node property??
How is it managed separate?

Re: Category property

davidc — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:01:28 GMT

Hi,

The categories assigned to a document are stored in a property on the node that represents the document. This property is multi-valued.

You can see the definition of this property by taking a look at contentModel.xml (in /alfresco/model). Search for the aspect cm:generalclassifiable and you'll see it defines the property cm:categories. We support categorisation by adding this aspect to any node that requires it.

In your question, I assume you're referring to the JCR API, not jackrabbit (that's a completely different project - Apache). You can get and set the values of this property via any of Alfresco's APIs. The values are node references to category objects held in the Repository.

If you classify a document in the Alfresco Web Client and then take a look at the document via the Node Browser (from the Administration Console), you will see the category property and its values for an example.