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Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

dbrunner — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:47:03 GMT

For accessing the forums on a document via fdl, one may use the following command (assuming that doc is a reference to the document) :<#list doc.children[0].children as forum> …</#list>How can I access the forums on a folder ?Daniel

Re: Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

gavinc — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:50:41 GMT

Both documents and folders both use the fm:discussion child association.

Folders already have a child association called 'cm:contains' for the sub folders and files. So for a folder you'll need to pick out the fm:discussion child association specifically.

It just so happens that documents usually don't have any child associations so referencing doc.children[0] would normally give you the fm:discussion child association (if its present). However, this is not guaranteed, documents could have other child associations too so your code should really be specific about the child association you mean in both scenarios.

Hopefully Kev can respond with the freemarker syntax you'll need to do that!

Re: Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

kevinr — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:50:01 GMT

Accessing named child associations (as you need to do this) is available as part of the Alfresco FreeMarker API in 2.1, in the latest code available now, such as a nightly build: http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist

Once you have the latest code (or wait for the 2.1 release) the syntax is: doc.childAssocs["fm:discussion"][0]

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Re: Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

dbrunner — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:17:47 GMT

We are actually using the V1.4 in production so I would need the example for V1.4 of Alfresco…

Thans in advance.
Daniel

Re: Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

kevinr — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:12:38 GMT

Using the 1.4 API you could identify which of the child nodes is the one you want by comparing the type of each one until you find one of type: {http://www.alfresco.org/model/forum/1.0}:forum

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Access the forums on a folder (fdl)

dbrunner — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:07:59 GMT

Great, it'is working. Here a small sample :

<#if space.isContainer>
 hello, I am a container
 <#list space.children as forums>
 <#if forums.type = "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/forum/1.0}forum">
 ${forums.properties.name}
 <#if forums.isContainer>
 <#list forums.children as topic>
 <#if topic.type = "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/forum/1.0}topic">
 ${topic.properties.name}
 </#if>
 </#list>
 </#if>
 </#if>
 </#list>
</#if>