topic Repeating String attribute or custom functionality in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90531#M61653 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am currently in the process of identifying some requirements for an Alfresco project I am working on.&nbsp; An interesting situation has come up whereby a repeating field is required or an association needs to be made.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Basically a mode of printing needs to be encoded for a different set of books to be published.&nbsp; These fields will have to be null or a value between 1-3.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now what is required is that the attribute field names need to be that of the publication title name.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>eg. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Book Title X&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Book Title Two</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Book title XYZ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now the entire row has to be dynamic, in that you can add another row to it at any time, eg. a property called 'Book Title Five', with a value of 1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the best way of implementing this using the Alfresco content model.&nbsp; One possible option is to only have one repeating string field with the values, and then a lookup table for all the different property names, where you would configure any display page to render the property names correctly against the respective row in the repeating field.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have considered using a node association of some sort, but not sure about this.&nbsp; Should I consider using the "any" type to use a custom object of some sort?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Lastly we have considered creating a new aspect for every book title, and having a "Book Identifier " field as part of the aspect.&nbsp; However we may find it hard to justify the use of an aspect just for this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can anyone offere any recommendations?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advanced</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>J</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:26:14 GMT jamen 2007-07-03T08:26:14Z Repeating String attribute or custom functionality https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90531#M61653 Hi,I am currently in the process of identifying some requirements for an Alfresco project I am working on.&nbsp; An interesting situation has come up whereby a repeating field is required or an association needs to be made.Basically a mode of printing needs to be encoded for a different set of books to b Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:26:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90531#M61653 jamen 2007-07-03T08:26:14Z Re: Repeating String attribute or custom functionality https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90532#M61654 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Not quite sure I understand the requirement, however, it sounds like you need to use maybe 1 (or possible 2) multi-value string properties. Please clarify!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:49:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90532#M61654 mikef 2007-07-04T10:49:39Z Re: Repeating String attribute or custom functionality https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90533#M61655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Effectively it could be two repeating fields, where I define my web client to display the attributes side by side.&nbsp; Whereby each book name has the print mode assigned next to it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So on a document node I would want to have on the document properties page, the potential to add a new book name and have a "print mode" value assigned to it.&nbsp; The question then is how should this be stored or how can this be accomodated in Alfresco.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>eg.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>DOCUMENT PROPERTIES PAGE - Document xyz.doc</STRONG></SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>Name:</STRONG><SPAN> Document xyz.doc</SPAN><BR /><STRONG>Subject: </STRONG><SPAN>test case</SPAN><BR /><STRONG>Author:</STRONG><SPAN> Joe Blogs</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>Books</STRONG></SPAN><BR /><STRONG>Book xyz:</STRONG><SPAN> 1</SPAN><BR /><STRONG>Book two: </STRONG><BR /><STRONG>Book Z:</STRONG><SPAN> 5</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Basically in the above example, each of the books are dynamically created, but they appear (on the web client) as if they are just another attribute on the properties page.&nbsp; The values 1, 5 are chosen as a drop down of values (between 1 and 5).&nbsp; At any time we would want to add another book so we can specify the print mode for the book. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There are reasons why I want to do this (dependencies in other parts of the system).&nbsp; I'm basically gauging whether this easily achievable with Alfresco's content model etc without major customisation.&nbsp; If not then it's a case of thinking of another way of satisfying functional requirements.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advanced</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Jamen</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:58:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeating-string-attribute-or-custom-functionality/m-p/90533#M61655 jamen 2007-07-05T04:58:06Z