topic Re: Persisting Aspect Properties in Alfresco Archive

Persisting Aspect Properties

slothrop — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:10:51 GMT

In Alfresco 2.1 I am writing JavaScript that moves the contents of a space into another space. I have an aspect defined that includes the boolean property, customrimaryDocument. I would like the user to designate one of the documents in the space as the primary document before submitting the con

Re: Persisting Aspect Properties

kevinr — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:52:03 GMT

There is nothing wrong with the code that i can see (you don't need to call save() in the second section though if you haven't made any changes - but it won't hurt).

What happens in the destination folder? Are there any rules or further scripts executing that could change the value back?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Persisting Aspect Properties

slothrop — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:45:11 GMT

No, this happens even when the destination folder has no rules or scripts applied. There is a workaround which involves removing the aspect and readding it so I can set children[1].properties["customrimaryDocument"] to be true. It persists when I do the following:


   var notes = children[1].properties["custom:Notes"];
      var containsOnlineMaterial = children[1].properties["custom:ContainsOnlineMaterial"];
      children[1].removeAspect("custom:OtherProperties");
      var otherProps = new Array(3);
      otherProps["custom:Notes"] = notes;
      otherProps["custom:ContainsOnlineMaterial"] = containsOnlineMaterial;
      otherProps["custom:PrimaryDocument"] = true;
      children[1].addAspect("custom:OtherProperties", otherProps);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

However, this resembles a problem I posted earlier with the Alfresco-defined property, cm:author, when it is copied, but not when it is moved. The workaround,


var author = child.properties["cm:author"];
   child.removeAspect("cm:author");
   var props = new Array(1);
   props["cm:author"] = author;
   child.addAspect("cm:author", props);
   child.save;
   child.copy(newFolder);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

doesn't work here.

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=8532&highlight=

Re: Persisting Aspect Properties

kevinr — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:50:37 GMT

I haven't tried your use case myself, but if what you say is happening then it sounds like a bug. I have raised a JIRA item so we can take a look:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1772

Thanks,

Kevin