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Problem with Custom Aspects

vpps — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:48:04 GMT

Hi,I'm somewhat new to Alfresco and have been familiarizing myself with the wiki, forum and Packt book.Now Iâ€™m trying to create a custom aspect for which Iâ€™ve modified the following files in the alfresco/extension folder:â€¢ custom-model-context.xmlâ€¢ customModel.xml â€¢ and web-client-co

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

vpps — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:10:57 GMT

Would it help if I provided extracts of the custom-model-context.xml, customModel.xml and/or and web-client-config-custom.xml ?

Please advice.

This would be a great help, since I'm waiting on this to complete a prototype with Alfresco, so as to leverage the work on future client projects.

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

vpps — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:30:30 GMT

Just noticed that the section in the web-client-config-custom.xml was commented out somewhere earlier in the file….

Wish I'd noticed it earlier….

Anyway, sorry about that.

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

christophes — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:33:01 GMT

Have you modified your web-client-config-custom.xml as below ?

   <config evaluator="aspect-name" condition="prefix:nameOfAspect">
      <property-sheet>
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata1"/>
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata2"/>
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata3"/>
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata4"/>
      </property-sheet>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Action Wizards">
      <aspects>
         <aspect name="prefix:nameOfAspect"/>
      </aspects>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Advanced Search">
      <advanced-search>
         <content-aspect>
            <aspect name="prefix:nameOfAspect" />
         </content-aspect>
         <custom-properties>
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata1" />
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata2" />
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata3" />
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata4" />
         </custom-properties>
      </advanced-search>
   </config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The most important part for you is the second config's node. Hope that will help you.

Christophe

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

vpps — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:27:27 GMT

I've completed the 1st two sections in the web-client-config-custom.xml, namely the following (after which I'm able to create a business rule using the custom aspect in the web client):


<config evaluator="aspect-name" condition="prefix:nameOfAspect"> 
      <property-sheet> 
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata1"/> 
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata2"/> 
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata3"/> 
         <show-property name="prefix:metadata4"/> 
      </property-sheet> 
   </config> 

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Action Wizards"> 
      <aspects> 
         <aspect name="prefix:nameOfAspect"/> 
      </aspects> 
   </config> 

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The above appears to link the aspect properties such that the aspect and the properties appear in the web client while creating a business rule on the aspect.

Regarding the last section, could you clarify as to why this is required or what it does:


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Advanced Search"> 
      <advanced-search> 
         <content-aspect> 
            <aspect name="prefix:nameOfAspect" /> 
         </content-aspect> 
         <custom-properties> 
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata1" /> 
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata2" /> 
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata3" /> 
            <meta-data aspect="prefix:nameOfAspect" property="prefix:metadata4" /> 
         </custom-properties> 
      </advanced-search> 
   </config>
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Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

maxlint — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:48:49 GMT

I am having the same issue you described. Have resolved this issue yet? I followed the examlpe in Alfresco Book from chapter 7. Alfresco boots with no errors, but I don't see my custom aspect.

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

priyanka_nayak — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:42:46 GMT

Hi ,
While adding a new aspect in custommodel.xml like in the code below, I am getting exception : org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary.InvalidAspectException: The aspect is invalid: {custom.model}CustomerDetails

My code is:
<aspects>
<aspect name="custom : CustomerDetails">
<title>Customer Details</title>
<properties>
<property name="custom : CustomerName">
<title>Customer Name</title>
<type>d:text</type>
</property>
<property name="custom : CustomerContactName">
<title>Customer Contact Name</title>
<type>d:text</type>
</property>
<property name="custom : CustomerProjectID">
<title>Customer Project ID</title>
<type>d:int</type>
</property>
</properties>
</aspect>
</aspects>

Plez reply bac…Its very urgent..
Regards,
Priyanka

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

rivarola — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:11:48 GMT

Hello,

Seems there are blank spaces around the : in your property names.

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

priyanka_nayak — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:01:57 GMT

Even if i reply blank spaces its giving the same exception..

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

dhalupa — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:39:25 GMT

Could you post entire model definition and enclose it with "code" tags in order to be more readable?

Kind regards,

Denis

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

priyanka_nayak — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:05:13 GMT

Hi,
Sending you the codes where I have made changes.

custom-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/customModel.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
          
</beans>
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web-client-config-custom.xml

  <!– add blog types to teh add content list –> 
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Action Wizards"> 
     <aspects>
         <aspect name="custom:CustomerDetails"/>
      </aspects>
   </config> 
   
    <config evaluator="aspect-name" condition="custom:CustomerDetails">
      <property-sheet>
      <separator name="sepCust1"  display-label="Customer Details"
       component-generator="HeaderSeparatorGenerator"/>
         <show-property name="custom:CustomerName"/>
         <show-property name="custom:CustomerContactName"/>
         <show-property name="custom:CustomerProjectID"/>
      </property-sheet>
   </config>
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customModel.xml

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

<!– Custom Model –>
<!– Note: This model is pre-configured to load at startup of the Repository.  So, all custom –>
<!– types and aspects added here will automatically be registered –>

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

   <!– Optional meta-data about the model –>   
   <description>Custom Model</description>
   <author></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>

   <!– Introduction of new namespaces defined by this model –>
   <!– NOTE: The following namespace custom.model should be changed to reflect your own namespace –>
   <!–namespaces>
      <namespace uri="http://www.google.com/model/content/1.0" prefix="custom"/>
      <!–namespace uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="custom"/ –>
   <!–/namespaces–>



 <namespaces> 
   <namespace uri="wipro.custom.model" prefix="custom"/ > 
 </namespaces> 



   <!–aspects>
       <aspect name="custom:NewDetails">
         <properties>
           <property name="custom:MYNewDetails">
             <title>My New Details</title>
             <type>d:text</type>
           </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
   </aspects–>


<aspects>
       <aspect name="custom:CustomerDetails">
            <title>Customer Details</title>
            <properties>
                <property name="custom:CustomerName">
                    <title>Customer Name</title>
                    <type>d:text</type>
                </property>
                 <property name="custom:CustomerContactName">
                    <title>Customer Contact Name</title>
                    <type>d:text</type>
                </property>
                <property name="custom:CustomerProjectID">
                    <title>Customer Project ID</title>
                    <type>d:int</type>
                </property>
            </properties>
        </aspect>
</aspects>

</model>
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Plez reply bac…Its urgent..
Priyanka

Edited by moderator to enclose XML in code tags. Please remember to use the Code tags when posting code on the forum. Thanks.

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

dhalupa — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:01:08 GMT

You did not close namespace tag properly, besides that I did not found anything wrong. Try pasting model below..

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

<!– Custom Model –>
<!– Note: This model is pre-configured to load at startup of the Repository.  So, all custom –>
<!– types and aspects added here will automatically be registered –>

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

   <!– Optional meta-data about the model –>
   <description>Custom Model</description>
   <author></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="wipro.custom.model" prefix="custom" />
   </namespaces>

   <aspects>
      <aspect name="custom:CustomerDetails">
         <title>Customer Details</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="custom:CustomerName">
               <title>Customer Name</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="custom:CustomerContactName">
               <title>Customer Contact Name</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="custom:CustomerProjectID">
               <title>Customer Project ID</title>
               <type>d:int</type>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
   </aspects>

</model>
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Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

priyanka_nayak — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:03:48 GMT

no its still not working…can you just tell me whether there are any other files other than the three where the changes are to be made..

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

fhomasp — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:34:34 GMT

If I'm not mistaken you'll need to define a model first and then the aspect. I declared the model after the namespace declaration and I enclosed the model in the <types> modelstuff</types> tags.

<types>
   
      <!– Definition of new Content Type: Real CV –>
      <type name="rls:cv">
         <title>Real CV</title>
         <parent>cm:content</parent>
         <properties>
            <property name="rls:name">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
         </properties>
         <mandatory-aspects>
            <aspect>cm:versionable</aspect>
            <aspect>rls:locatable</aspect>            
         </mandatory-aspects>
      </type>
      
</types>

<!–aspect definitions go here–>
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I don't think you need mandatory aspects, but you need a type defined between the types tag.

Hope it helps

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

priyanka_nayak — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:29:02 GMT

Hi everybody,

Thanks a lot for ur prompt replies…
it helped alot…
Can anybody tell me how to add a drop-down box as a aspect…

Priyanka

Re: Problem with Custom Aspects

ajs — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:40:28 GMT

I have the same problem than priyanka.nayak. I have made the same changes… and modifications… but still have the same problem