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Constaints on association? Override cm:contains association?

jey — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:00:43 GMT

Hi,Here is my problem:I have define two sub-type of folder: client and project.And I want a "client" space to contain ONLY "project" spaces…Is it possible ? I really need this constraint, I want to prevent it containing anything else.I am wondering if I can override the definition of the child-assoc

Re: Constaints on association? Override cm:contains association?

derek — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:44:20 GMT

Hi,

I'm afraid that we don't have the notion of overriding associations. The other problem is, as you have discovered, that clients like CIFS, FTP and WebDAV don't have the ability to choose a type of folder or file to create.

We do, however, have a specialization action. Instead of deleting instances that aren't of the correct type within your projects folder, just change their type to be your specific subtype.

Regards

Re: Constaints on association? Override cm:contains association?

jey — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:08:14 GMT

Thanks for your reply …

I have already think about your proposition of specialization, but indeed I don't want only to specialize content, but I want to also apply a template …

And if a user copy/paste an existing folder through webdav, if I build an action that apply the needed template (implementation of my custom type), what does the existing files and sub-folders become ???

Well this is a design problem … So I won't bore you with this !

But this could have been a solution … I will look forward an other solution…