Custom Add Content

[vbaudry]

Hi !

I'm trying to customize the Add Content Wizard/Dialog, to do some special processing for some file types.

I successfully created a AddCustomContentDialog for the "addContent" navigation case.

But now I want to customize the "Modify Content Properties" bean to do some stuff in the finishImpl(). So I created an EditContentPropertiesCustomDialog on the EditContentPropertiesDialog model.

I put it in my custom jar.

For configuration, I just created a web-client-config-custom.xml with the lines below :

<config>
      <dialog-container>/jsp/dialog/container.jsp</dialog-container>

      <dialogs>  
         <dialog name="editContentProperties" page="/jsp/content/edit-content-properties.jsp"
                 managed-bean="EditContentPropertiesCustomDialog" icon="/images/icons/details_large.gif"
                 title-id="modify_content_properties" description-id="edit_content_description" />  
                
      </dialogs>
     
   </config>

I didn't want to change the jsp that handles the bean for now.

I also put that in the faces-config-custom.xml to handle the bean :

<managed-bean>
      <description>
         The bean that backs up the Edit Content Properties Dialog
      </description>
      <managed-bean-name>EditContentPropertiesCustomDialog</managed-bean-name>
      <managed-bean-class>org.alfresco.sample.EditContentPropertiesCustomDialog</managed-bean-class>
      <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>nodeService</property-name>
         <value>#{NodeService}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>fileFolderService</property-name>
         <value>#{FileFolderService}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>dictionaryService</property-name>
         <value>#{DictionaryService}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>browseBean</property-name>
         <value>#{BrowseBean}</value>
      </managed-property>
   </managed-bean>

But when I try to test it, it seems that my CustomDialog isn't used … I put a System.out.println in it and it's never shown.

Any Idea ? Am I missing something ? Or doing something wrong ?

Please help !

[vbaudry]

Anyone ??

Is it possible to customize existing dialog to change only the managed bean ? Am I doing it wrong ??

Can't find documentation about overriding dialogs …

[gavinc]

It all looks to be configured correctly to me.

Where have you placed your web-client-config-custom.xml? Do you have another web-client-config-custom.xml anywhere in your setup?

[vbaudry]

I only have one web-client-config-custom.xml placed in the shared/extension folder.

I know that it's read because I got custom types I defined in it and they work well.

[gavinc]

Can you turn on debugging in log4j.properties for the following classes and post the contents of the alfresco.log file after you have tried opening your custom edit properties page?

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler=info‍

[vbaudry]

I got no additional output …

Did you notice the fact that I want to use a custom managed bean but the original jsp ?? Could it be the reason it doesn't work ?

[gavinc]

Yes I did, it shouldn't make any difference to be honest.

My mistake the line should have been the following:

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler=debug‍

[vbaudry]

Here is the result :

10:22:56,999 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Passing outcome 'addConte
nt' to original navigation handler
10:22:56,999 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: []
10:23:36,417 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] handleNavigation (fromAct
ion=#{AddCustomDialog.finish}, outcome=dialog:setContentProperties)
10:23:36,417 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Current view id: /jsp/ext
ension/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Opening dialog 'setConten
tProperties'
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Pushed current view to st
ack: /jsp/extension/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp
10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Found config for dialog '
setContentProperties': org.alfresco.web.config.DialogsConfigElement$DialogConfig
@795d5f (name=setContentProperties page=/jsp/content/edit-content-properties.jsp
managed-bean=SetContentPropertiesDialog actions-config-id=null icon=/images/ico
ns/details_large.gif title=null titleId=modify_content_properties description=nu
ll descriptionId=edit_content_description errorMsgId=error_dialog)
10:23:36,480 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: [/jsp/extensi
on/add-custom-content-dialog.jsp]
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] handleNavigation (fromAct
ion=#{DialogManager.finish}, outcome=dialog:close:browse)
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Current view id: /jsp/dia
log/container.jsp
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Closing dialog with an ov
erridden outcome of 'browse'
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Passing outcome 'browse'
to original navigation handler
10:23:59,649 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] view stack: []

As I thought, the navigationHandler doesn't see my overridden configuration for this jsp…

[vbaudry]

Is there a way with log4j to see if the reading of the web-client-config-custom is ok for this section ???

[gavinc]

Ahh, I see the problem.

When the wizard finishes creating the node the "setContentProperties" dialog is called not the "editContentProperties" dialog indicated by the line below:

10:23:36,433 DEBUG [web.app.AlfrescoNavigationHandler] Opening dialog 'setContentProperties' 
‍‍

You'll therefore need to extend SetContentPropertiesDialog instead and override the config for "setContentProperties".