Sample Types and Aspect - Config Files

[pauldhampton]

Back in January I posted a blog about how powerful the Aspect feature was in Alfresco. It included two videos – one showing how to apply an aspect and one showing how to search on an aspect. A number of people have asked about getting access to my configuration files so they could try it out themselves. So here are the instructions and sample files.

Overview

These customisations will add a number of new types and one new aspect:

Types	Attributes		Aspect	Attributes
Contract	Contract ID		Customer Info	Customer Name
Standard Operating Procedure	SOP ID			Customer ID
Report	Report ID			Customer Contact
Case File	Case ID
Issue Log	Issue ID
Proposal	Proposal ID
Meeting Notes	Meeting ID

Instructions

The demo configurations consist of 5 files. Copy these to the relevant location within the Alfresco install (note: if you already have some of these files, with local configurations, you will need to merge the changes).



Copy demomodel.properties to

[ALFREASCO]/tomcat/shared/clases/alfresco/web-extension/messages



(note: you will need to create the messages folder)



Copy custom-slingshot-application-context.xml and share-config-custom.xml to

[ALFRESCO]/tomcat/shared/clases/alfresco/web-extension



(note: you will most probably already have a share-config-custom.xml file. This one can replace the default one if you have not modified it)



Copy demo-context.xml and demoModel.xml to

[ALFRESCO]/tomcat/shared/clases/alfresco/extension



Now restart the server. If everything goes right you should now be able to...

Change the type Add an aspect Set the meta data Use the advanced search feature.