Solved: ${name} in freemarker template

[mvlach]

Hi,


is there any possibility to get the name of the webform ? Let's imagine:

I have webform news and create the content news1. Freemarker render news1.xml to news1.html - and i would like to know the name "news1" in the template.

Is this possible ?

Thanks Mila

[mikef]

Have you tried:

${name}

[mvlach]

Yes, i have tried this

M.

[janv]

One of the following can be used:

${alf.form_instance_data_file_name}
${alf.rendition_file_name}

In your case, these we will return "news1.xml" and "news1.html" so you will need to strip off the file suffix.

See also:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Developer_Guide#Rendering_engine_variables_and_functions

Regards,
Jan

[vijay_alfresco]

This is good, but can I know the renedition names and associated xml file in the deployment server code?

Thanks,
Vijay

[zaizi]

Yes. If you are doing an Alfresco to Alfresco deployment. If you are doing an Alfresco to File Server deployment, then you'll just have a bunch of files on the file system.

What is it that you are trying to do?

Ainga

[tommorris]

Ainga is correct.

The web-form AVM nodes holding the XML, contains a collection property called "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/wcmappmodel/1.0}renditions" with a list of the generated rendition files associated with this web-form. Whilst the rendition nodes themselves have the property "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/wcmappmodel/1.0}primaryforminstancedata" that points back at the web-form XML instance that created it.

Alternatively, you could embed the info in the rendition output, possibly into an accompanying custom XML file.

Tom
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[vijay_alfresco]

Yes. If you are doing an Alfresco to Alfresco deployment. If you are doing an Alfresco to File Server deployment, then you'll just have a bunch of files on the file system.

What is it that you are trying to do?

Ainga

ok, but given a webform (comes as .xml file in deployment server), I want to know the associated reneditions and mimetypes or just the file names of the rendered files asssociated to the xml. I am using Alfresco to File system deployment and I know I'll get all the files even the rendered files in the deployment server, but I want to get the associated files for a
given .xml file (webform output).

Thanks you,
Vijay

[zaizi]

Right. There are two options to look up associations;

1. Hard code the locations. If you are generating the renditions in the same location as the .xml file or at a relative location, then you can just look it up. An example would be that renditions are of the same name in a sub folder called "renditions'. If the .xml file is in /somefolder/my.xml, the rendition would be in /somefolder/renditions/my.html (if the rendition is an html file).

2. Given the .xml file use webscripts to call back to you Alfresco installation to look up the associated files and renditions.

[tommorris]

Yeah - and if you're stuck with solution 1 outlined above, I would try something like:
  my-webform-instance.xml
  my-rendition-1.html
  my-rendition-2.jsp
  my-webform-instance-meta.xml

Where the first form is the actual output of the web form, and the following three files are renditions.
The last rendition in this example contains any associated meta-data about the web-form.
By using a consistent notation (i.e. use the same name as the web-form, but with the '-meta' suffix) you can find the file to query.