topic Re: Associations in model created by model manager in Alfresco Forum

Associations in model created by model manager

pcastro — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:28:06 GMT

Hello, I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn't find any clear information about my problem. I've created a few custom models using the model manager, I read in a few tutorials that in order to add associations between types, I need to do it manually in the XML, the problem is I can't

Re: Associations in model created by model manager

angelborroy — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:36:16 GMT

If your models require associations, then you have to switch to XML approach, as Model Manager tool does not support this feature.

You can export all your models to XML (Model Manager tool generates a ZIP with the XML inside) and start working by your own. Probably this is the best tutorial to understand how to work with Alfresco Content Models: https://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/content/tutorial/tutorial.html

Re: Associations in model created by model manager

pcastro — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:41:36 GMT

Thank you Angel, I'll go ahead and do it without the model manager.

Re: Associations in model created by model manager

rohit9637 — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:22:56 GMT

If I have already activated model from the model manager and Aspects from the model is already applied to the documents and data in the properties is also populated and it is important.

So, in this case, how could we switch to XML approach?