Reading Aspects in Custom Actions

[erictice]

I created a custom action and it kicks off properly.  One thing I am curious about though.  How do I access Aspect metadata that was not set on the action itself?  For instance.  The Title and Author fields are out of box metadata that you can see on the content.  My action is kicked off on adding content to a given space.  The assumption I was making is that I would have access to all metadata on the content that is inbound when the action is kicked off.  Is that not correct?

Thank you
Eric

[jpotts]

If you are talking about a Java-based Action, the NodeRef the action is running against gets passed in to your executeImpl method:

protected void executeImpl(Action action, NodeRef actionedUponNodeRef)‍

Once you have that, you can get/set properties to your heart's content

Map<QName, Serializable> properties = nodeService.getProperties(actionedUponNodeRef);
properties.put(SomeCoModel.PROP_IS_ACTIVE, activeFlag);‍‍

If you are running JavaScript-based action, the object the action is running against is automatically available in the "document" root variable.

if (document.hasAspect("sc:webable")) {
   if (document.properties["sc:isActive"] == true) {
      document.properties["sc:isActive"] = false;
      document.properties["sc:published"] = new Date();
   
      document.save();
   }
} ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hope that helps,

Jeff

[erictice]

I need to get properties.  Are they pre-set as part of the content?

[erictice]

What would the somecomodel be if I were trying to get the Author metadata as it is an standard alfresco option not one I want to customize?