topic Re: Automatic category registration in Alfresco Forum

Automatic category registration

yosk — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:19:58 GMT

Newbie question: I'm using version of Aflresco Community - 5.2.0 (r135134-b14) I'm custmizing page of the document-details. I could implement adding the category at the time of registration by adding the aspect.However, I want to automatically add it to the category based on the information of docum

Re: Automatic category registration

krutik_jayswal — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:44:03 GMT

You can use behaviour/policies. Behavior or policies are basically kind of action events of document.So if you would like to do something whenever the document is updated/created/delete , you can use this policies.There are lot many other behavior also available for example event of uploading the new version etc..

There is nice blog written by Jeff Potts‌.Please take a look on that for more details.

Implementing Custom Behaviors in Alfresco | ECMArchitect | Alfresco Developer Tutorials

Re: Automatic category registration

cesarista — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:11:20 GMT

Hi:

A very very basic example via content rule, based on filenames with existing tags or categories:

- Name-based autocategorization or tagging in Alfresco via content rule - zylk

Regards.

--C.

Re: Automatic category registration

mehe — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:25:45 GMT

The simplest way: you could add rules to folders that get triggered if you create, change,... documents in these folders or their subfolders.

Your are able to use Aspect-Properties and their values to link categories to your document:

Rule actions | Alfresco Documentation

Harder, but more flexible:

Also you are able to execute a java-script (placed in data dictionary/scripts) that get's the triggering document injected. You can access the properties with the document.properties[...] object/array

https://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/rule-actions.html ScriptNode API | Alfresco Documentation

finding your category is a bit complicated:

Classification API | Alfresco Documentation

once found you can add it via document.properties["cm:categories"]

if you need real complex actions and have to get control over the values before and after the update, you need to implement a behaviour using java, like ‌ described

Re: Automatic category registration

mehe — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:26:35 GMT

Hi Cesar, you were faster - again 🙂

Re: Automatic category registration

yosk — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:47:41 GMT

Thanks Krutik Behaviour
 policies is likely to be useful.
 Is it better to implement new categories here?
Thanks Cesar
  Automatic registration to the created category worked fine.
Thanks Martin
   A link to the API is also helpful. Thank you.