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Add new property & existing documents

lmoulin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:21:44 GMT

Hello,My system is used by users for 6 months.There are 1 500 000 documents.I have defined several customized properties.But now I want to add a new searchable property.Is it possible to create a new property with a default value for the existing documents?I want to use this property like criterion

Re: Add new property & existing documents

ribz33 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:26:27 GMT

Just create an aspect.
After you need to make an action(job) which will add this aspect to all documents.

Aspect will contain your property with a default value after you can make it searchable in web-client-config.xml

Dont forget to create a rule to add this aspect to all future document also.

Hope this help.

Re: Add new property & existing documents

kevinr — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:45:20 GMT

You can write a JavaScript that will use Lucene to find all docs and set the aspect/property on those docs. You will need to run the script as admin The side effect of doing this is that all docs will have the Modified Date updated, but there's not much you can do about that.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API

Thanks,

Kevin