topic Re: How can I add a node which it is just an URL? in Alfresco Archive

How can I add a node which it is just an URL?

llin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:58:10 GMT

Just a question about content model:I want to add a node to the repository, which it is just an URL instead of an uploaded/created file. Is it possible to do that in Alfresco? What is the best practice to do that?I have tried extending the content model with a property "URL", type d:noderef. But the

Re: How can I add a node which it is just an URL?

llin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:09:21 GMT

I have this issue because I want to save both kinds of nodes in the repository: files saved in Alfresco repository or URLs linked to a remote resource. Fedora (CMS not OS) has a similiar function. I wonder, if Alfresco can do that and how can I set up the content model?

Any idea? Thanks a lot.

Ally

Re: How can I add a node which it is just an URL?

hbf — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:11:30 GMT

I would also be interested in approaches to this problem. One approach would be to use a custom model. But I don't see from what my new type/aspect should inherit.

Apparently, some work has already be done on this, see http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AWC-253. However, I don't really understand Kevin's comment there:

done as part of url addressability

What does this mean?

Thanks,
Kaspar

Re: How can I add a node which it is just an URL?

kevinr — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:28:04 GMT

My comment is incorrect and the item was reopened. We still need to add that feature as part of the web-client foundation - you can probably create a bunch of custom files and model to do it, but it should really be in the web-client core… Hopefully we will get to it for 2.2…

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How can I add a node which it is just an URL?

hbf — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:16:00 GMT

I have added a page to the wiki with a very, very rough proposal for a such URL type. Feel free to contribute.

Kaspar