topic Best way to append content in Alfresco Archive

Best way to append content

ibarbaric — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:50:12 GMT

Hello!I want to append something to content in the most efficient way. For example, if I had a text file that contains "This is a sample content", I would like to append "…and this is appended sample content" to it. I know: I can read content, do appending in my program and then overwrite content wi

Re: Best way to append content

davidc — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:06:48 GMT

The Web Service API doesn't provide this out-of-the-box.

However, you could write a very simple Web Script http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts that provides the required behaviour. The Web Script just provides a public custom URL to invoke. Within the Web Script you can Javascript to append the text…

// find the doc - from noderef or path passed on url
doc = …;

// append text
doc.content = doc.content + " some new text";

Re: Best way to append content

ibarbaric — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:28:25 GMT

Thanks, David!