Creating content of custom type in Share

[horia]

I am trying to have Share let the user create new documents based on a custom type I implemented (see the excellent documentation here <a>http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-content/content-article-2ed.pdf</a>)

I had the type implemented and defined aspects, but I can't see a clear way to configure Share in order to propose in the interface my type for a new document.

I guess it should be added to the Create content menu option that lists available types.

Thanks

[mitpatoliya]

You just need to add one config in your share-config-custom.xml

  <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
 <types>
         <type name="cm:content">         
          <subtype name="custom:contentType" />            
         </type>
      </types>

</config>
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Have you added this entry?

[horia]

this won't change the list of content types to be created in the dropdown menu options

[horia]

I don't even know where the types of documents to be created come from, they are not listed in any .xml

[rjohnson]

Well according to this post

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/add-own-content-ty...

(see item 10) all you need to do is add

<!– Document Library config section –>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
   <create-content>
      <content id="plain-text" mimetype="text/plain" label="criar-conteudo.text" itemid="axcl:cliente" icon="ax"/>
   </create-content>
</config>
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in share-config-custom.xml in 4.0e (and presumably later)

Acknowledgement to Itardioli

It used to be much harder than that in earlier versions. Which version are you on.

Bob

[mitpatoliya]

Yeah, bob is right I just misread your question. Apologies.

[horia]

thanks, Bob, but this won't help.

I'm using a file called share-config-custom.xml placed under \tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension. Alfresco 4.2c

Here is how the added section looks like:

        <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary">
           <create-content>
         <content id="plain-text" mimetype="text/plain" label="wavemachines.text" itemid="sc:doc"/>
      </create-content>
   </config>
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[horia]

I discovered that once I include this section into

share-form-config.xml‍

, the new content type is shown.
This means that my

share-config-custom.xml‍

is ignored, how could that be?

[rjohnson]

Your share-config-custom.xml is in the wrong place. You need to put it in a directory

\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension

not

\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension

thats where mine is and it definately picks it up from there.

Bob

[horia]

no, the file was in the good place, otherwise it won't be used by Share, but by Explorer.

my problem was that the custom settings file contained some type declarations and aspects that influenced the content type settings. Obviously, the order of declarations is very important

thanks for the help