Adding custom metadata to WCM content

[lnfalandino]

Hello,

Edit: Also note that I'm using 2.9B.

First let me begin by saying that I'm still quite new to Alfresco and so my inexperience will probably show. I have - what I feel - is a fairly basic question but unfortunately the information I have found hasn't answered my question directly (though it has offered some clues) and I've become a bit confused as to what the best approach should be. Given that I have a very short timeframe to work this out, I'm hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction.

The simplest description of what I want to do is add custom metadata fields to content in an AVM store (WCM) that I can then search for using Lucene. From the searching I've done so far I am getting the impression that adding an aspect to my WCM content would be a good way to go. I'm not sure how to do this however, or how this fits with creating a custom form within WCM.

In my ideal world I imagine that I could go into my Web Project, select Add Content to my sandbox and for my form type I could pick my custom form which has additional metadata fields associated with it that could be entered/modified in the properties of that content item.

Huge thanks in advance to anyone who can give me a simple example of what the best way to accomplish this would be.

Thanks,
Naim

[ftoth]

Hi,

Very interesting thread. And yes, I would like to see your final solution.
Is this something that works in 2.9B only? Or would this work in 2.1?

I would also very much like to have an overview of your entire process,
as in "user does x, user then does y, meta-data is extracted, etc."

Thanks,

Fred

[pmonks]

The XML Metadata Extractor was added in 2.1 (although there were some important improvements in 2.1.2), so you should be able to use it from 2.1.0 onward.

Cheers,
Peter