Define attributes dynamically by Content Manager/Editor

[phani_av]

Hi all,

I'm working on one non-typical requirement where in as an Alfresco Content Editor or Content Manager, I should be able to add in new attributes on metadata of an already defined content type.
It necessarily needn't be as the property on the existing content type, could be in any way but should be able to define new attributes on content types.

I have looked at Dynamic Content Modeling too, but again we felt that it was some engineer's time that's burnt here (which we don't want to do).

Any thoughts around it? I know this is not one of the best practices in the ECM world, but is there any way of doing it by some means in Alfresco?
We're on Alfresco 3.1.

Thanks for running this through your minds and putting your thoughts here.

Regards,
Phani

[jbarmash]

I don't think I completely understand your requirements (i.e. is this attribute supposed to be visible?  An example of what you need might be helpful here).    One direction to think about is residual properties - i.e. you can set a property (progamatically) on a document, even if that property doesn't exist in the content model. In the node browser, you'll see it with Residual column marked as "Y".

In 3.2, if that's an option, the form service now gives much more flexibility as to what you can do.