Is there any way to remove node property using JS API?

[masterhard]

Hello,

I am using Alfresco 3.4 and I need to delete node properties by JS web script. I did not found any mentions of removing properties in docs or in ScripNode sources.

Removing property from properties array and saving node does not remove properties (I looked to the code and saw that properties are actually merged).

Is there any way to remove node property using JS API?

[openpj]

The unique way to remove properties in Alfresco is declaring all these properties in an aspect and then use the addAspect and removeAspect methods to manage the properties as you wish.

Hope this helps.

[dnallsopp]

But in Java, you can call nodeService.removeProperty() - is there no equivalent in JavaScript?

What if you just want to remove one property value (something that is optional), not the entire aspect (which might include mandatory properties too)…?

Or would just setting the value to null do the trick?

[electroshokker · Accepted solution]

like this:

delete node.properties["yourprefix:yourproperty"];
node.save();‍‍

[sercama]

Great!

[douglascrp]

I believe both answers are correct.

If you want to remove properties from nodes, I mean, from all the nodes of some custom type, you should be changing the content model, as Piergiorgio Lucidi answered, but if the problem you are trying to solve is to remove residual properties, that are properties not defined anywhere, then you should be using the answer from