topic Replace r:propertySheetGrid in Alfresco Archive

Replace r:propertySheetGrid

zg0571 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:37:13 GMT

HelloI've seen the wiki:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/PropertySheetand try to custom the attribute interface. I want to know if "<rroperty name="name" />" could replace by"<hutputText value="Name" /><h:inputText value="#{node.properties.name}" />" in my custom workflow? And H

Re: Replace r:propertySheetGrid

gavinc — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:32:13 GMT

Yes you can do what you suggest but you'll lose most of the benefits of the property sheet. Using rroperty will pick the appropriate input control for the datatype, it also takes into consideration any constraints applied to the property in the model.

If you have a custom workflow you would have to have created a model definition for your task, the property sheet configuration can be used to handle any custom properties you have. Or is there a specific reason why you don't want to do this.

Maybe if you can give me an overview of what you're trying to achieve I can help further.

Re: Replace r:propertySheetGrid

zg0571 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:26:39 GMT

Thanks gavinc.
Now I have customed a workflow for my project which have many attributes.It means I must custom the interface.Becayse the layout of each line(each line may have more than one properties) and the sizes of the textfields are different.
Is there any other way to do it?

Re: Replace r:propertySheetGrid

gavinc — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:19:59 GMT

It's probably not exactly what you want but you can change the number of columns the property sheet uses so you can have 2 columns of properties.

However, the columns will still force all the fields to be the same size.

To do this you just change the 'columns' attribute on the propertysheet tag to 2 i.e.

<r:propertySheetGrid id="task-props" value="#{DialogManager.bean.taskNode}"
                       var="taskProps" columns="2" externalConfig="true" />
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If you want ultimate control over the layout of that page I'd suggest just using the standard JSF components rather than the property sheet.