Executing a script

[slothrop]

I would like to have users copy the contents of a space to another space  using Javascript in v. 2.1.  The only way I know how to do this currently is by the following sequence of events from the space details page:

Run Action > Select "Execute a Script" from a dropdown > Set Values and Add > Select the script from a dropdown.

I would prefer to simplify this process somehow.  Clicking on an icon or a link from the space Details page would be good.  How would I proceed to do this?

[slothrop]

If this can't be done, is it possible to have only a subset of the JavaScript files displayed in the dropdown in a particular space.  If I have many javascript files for use in different spaces, it might be confusing for users to have to select among them - even if they are given descriptive names.

[paullewon]

Hi,

You can add a hypothetical copyFiles.js script as a custom menu action to the space browse menu by placing code similar to this in your web-client-config-custom.xml file:

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="copy_files">
            <label>Copy Files</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/copyFiles.js</script>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
         <action-group id="space_browse_menu">
            <action idref="copy_files" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

  
Paul

[slothrop]

Thanks Paul,
This could be really helpful.  But where is the reference to the space?  Should the action-group id have a path - like "/Company Home/Submissions/space_browse_menu"?

[paullewon]

Hi,

You can hard code the destination space as a path in your .js:

var put_here = companyhome.childByNamePath("Content Updating Project/Backup Folder");‍

Or am I misunderstanding you?

Paul

[slothrop]

Paul,
I see now that you were responding to my first post and not my second.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[kevinr]

It is possible to call scripts via URL:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/URL_Addressability#Script_Command_Processor

So you could construct the appropriate URLs to the scripts and add them as links to a custom version of the space details page JSP.

Thanks,

Kevin

[slothrop]

Paul,
The xml code you recommended works for adding the action to the space dropdown but the dropdown is only available from outside the space.  If I want to move content from the User Homes/User/Submissions space I have to be in the User Homes/User space to select the file from the dropdown.  When I do that both "parent" and "space" are undefined for some reason.

This is not the end of the world, though.  I can assume that the user will only want to submit content from his or her Submissions folder and hard code it in, i.e.

var sourceFolder = userhome.childByNamePath("Submissions");‍

When I do this everything executes as it should.  The contents are moved but the web client goes to an error page containg only something like this,
"org.mozilla.javascript.Undefined@e55d75." 

Nothing is sent to the log.  When executing from inside the space details page via the

"Run Action > Select "Execute a Script" from a dropdown > Set Values and Add > Select the script from a dropdown"

sequence described above.  It works fine but this is much less convenient than I would like.


Kevin,
I've looked at the space-detail.jsp file.  That is one gnarly beast.  I'm not sure I'm ready to dig in to it just yet.

[kevinr]

The resulting page you see is not an error - it is the script output. It is quite common to want to return to the previous page after the execution of a script action. An easy way to achieve this is to add the following at the end of your script:

var goBack = "<script>history.back();</script>";
goBack;
‍‍‍‍

Kevin

[patrik]

Hi! I want to be able to execute a script on a file by pushing a new button for the file in the space browser.

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="test">
            <label>Test</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/testscript.js</script>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
         <action-group id="document_browse">
            <action idref="test" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>

What do i do to tell the script what it should use for its context? Something like?

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="test">
            <label>Test</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/testscript.js</script>
<params>
            <param name="contextPath">#{actionContext.nodeRef}</param>
       </params>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
            <action-group id="document_browse">
            <action idref="test" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>

But i want the link to be the same type as:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/command/script/execute?scriptPath=/Company%20Home/Data%20Dictionary/S...

Ideas? Am i on the right track?