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Prevent rules propagation to parent folder

oshikaru — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:27:29 GMT

Hello !I'm facing an issue with rules triggering in Alfresco (Community v5.2.0 (r135134-b14) schema 10 005).In our installation, we are using the rules to:Communicate to other server components about what happens in AlfrescoPrevent unwanted actions (like deleting some folders)We faced multiple issue

Re: Prevent rules propagation to parent folder

jpotts — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:27:24 GMT

Are you using the "Items are deleted..." trigger and the "Execute script" action for your rule? I cannot recreate the case where a script gets called twice using that trigger and action for a simple, one-line script that just has a logger.debug statement in it.

Maybe your script logic is triggering the rule twice?

Have you considered using a lower-level behavior rather than a folder rule?

Re: Prevent rules propagation to parent folder

oshikaru — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:13:00 GMT

We have 4 rules applied on the 'Sites' folder. All sub folders iherit of the parent folder rules.

Update aspects : 'Items are created or enter this folder', execute a script to set some wanted custom aspects on items

Synchronize : 'Items are created or enter this folder, Items are updated, Items are deleted or leave this folder', to make a long story short, this script sends an HTTP request to another component.

Synchronize folder : No longer used

Prevent Edit Spaces : 'Items are deleted or leave this folder, Items are updated' if 'Type is : Folder', the script that we are talking about.

The problem is not about the double triggering of the rule(s) but more about the 'Prevent Edit Spaces' rule triggering on parent folder in the same transaction that the file deletion.

What do you mean by 'lower-level behavior' ?

Thanks a lot for your answer !

Re: Prevent rules propagation to parent folder

jpotts — Fri, 11 May 2018 21:25:58 GMT

Sorry, I should have been more specific. By lower-level behavior I meant a Java behavior, see Implementing Custom Behaviors in Alfresco | ECMArchitect | Alfresco Developer Tutorials