topic Re: How to delete file link force in Alfresco Forum

How to delete file link force

koichinakata — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:23:07 GMT

Hi,There's a problem in Alfresco community 5.2. I found some file links whose destination is NULL, and try to delete those, but failed."Force delete" on nodebroser doesn't work with below error.050729912 Property 'nodeRef' has not been set: org.alfresco.repo.doclink.DocumentLinkServiceImpl@46666a9c

Re: How to delete file link force

koichinakata — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:12:53 GMT

Does anybody know how to remove remained link without error?

Re: How to delete file link force

mtsiak — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:43:31 GMT

I am getting the same error. Have anyone found any solutions?

Re: How to delete file link force

douglascrp — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:27:01 GMT

What do you see in the logs when you try to delete it?

Can you post the full stack trace?

One idea would be to set a "fake" destination pointing to some existing document and then trying to delete the link.

Re: How to delete file link force

mtsiak — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:56:53 GMT

logs complain about:

  [web.scripts.ActionEvaluatorHelper] Evaluator 'null' not found.

Propably, I had created through javascript some links nodes without adding the "app:linked" aspect to the source node. So when I deleted the source node, the destination property was empty. That seems to cause the above warning, and errors while previewing folder from share (empty folder, "loading Document Library ...").

Using javascript, I set the destination property, using the name, e.g.

var user_home = companyhome.childByNamePath("User Homes/test"); // some folder
for (var i = 0; i< user_home.getChildren().length; i++) {
    if (user_home.getChildren()[i].name.endsWith( "link.url") )  { //my links had the same prefix
        user_home.getChildren()[i].properties["cm:destination"]  = "workspace://SpacesStore/adc38ba8-e5a9-4ce3-b323-03a3967fba84";
        user_home.getChildren()[i].save();
    }
}

and then managed to delete this links.

It seems that creating links using javascript is prone to errors, if the code is as the one at DocumentLinkServiceImpl.java .