topic Re: Folderish View with number of documents below in Nuxeo Forum

Folderish View with number of documents below

ElmarKnipp_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:13:59 GMT

We have a document structure like this:

|-- Customer_ABC  
| |-- Project_1  
| |-- Project_2  
| | |-- Real_Document_4711  
| | `-- Real_Document_4812  
| `-- Project_3  
|     `-- Real_Document_987654  
|-- Customer_DEFG  
`-- Customer_HI

Customer_X and Project_Y are Folders and Real_Document_123 are Files. Above is just an example, our structure is much more complex and has of course much more documents. But many folders are still empty and are waiting for real documents.

If you are looking in the WebUI to Customer A, you see all its direct successors (Project 1 to 3). Is there a way to configure the view to have an indication, e.g. a number in brackets, if a folder has any documents from type File below on any level?

I think of something like this; see the bracket behind the name with the number.

|-- Customer_ABC (3)  
| |-- Project_1 (0)  
| |-- Project_2 (2)  
| | |-- Real_Document_4711  
| | `-- Real_Document_4812  
| `-- Project_3 (1)  
|     `-- Real_Document_987654  
|-- Customer_DEFG (0)  
`-- Customer_HI (0)

Or is such a calculation to expensive with NXQL?

Re: Folderish View with number of documents below

Gregory_Carlin — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:58:56 GMT

Hello,

That's a use case I've already encountered. For this scenario:

I've created an automation chain to calculate the number of children with a query. The value is added in a custom property (I don't like to edit the title)
I've linked it to an event handler (each time a new content is added or removed from the folderish content

A better option would be to use the children content enricher (https://doc.nuxeo.com/nxdoc/content-enrichers/) and make a count on it: all you would need is to edit your layout then.

Cheers

Re: Folderish View with number of documents below

ElmarKnipp_ — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:38:15 GMT

Hi Gregory

Re: Folderish View with number of documents below

ElmarKnipp_ — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:57:13 GMT

After some thoughts I came to the conclusion that the first approach (adding a custom property) is not working.