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Features to give colors for the folders

bisana
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
Hi  All,
I was thinking it would be great If there is option to change color and background of the folder display in share. I am not sure this is possible through any plugins.
If such feature exist it would be good to see it, is it available there 
Thanks
Joseph

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jpotts
World-Class Innovator
World-Class Innovator
In the old Explorer client you could pick the folder icon. It was kind of handy sometimes. I could see it being useful in Alfresco Share.

I don't see a reason why you couldn't write this as a customization. Create an aspect that could be added to a folder, then write a little widget that would let users pick the folder icon. The choice would be stored on the property defined by the aspect. Then write a Share extension module to swap out the folder icon if the property value is present. Those folder icons appear in a lot of places (with different sizes), though, so you'd have a bunch of icons to create.

I don't think this exists as an add-on yet, but it would be cool to see and a nice contribution.

Jeff

jpotts
World-Class Innovator
World-Class Innovator
To remind myself how this worked in Explorer I logged in and set a custom icon on a folder and noticed that the content model to support this is already there. The icon selection gets set in a property called app:icon. For example, when I change the folder to one with the CD on it the value of app:icon gets set to "space-icon-cd".

So you wouldn't have to fool with aspects. You'd just need to create the icons then do the Share extension module to make the right icons show up. But you'd still have to do some form service/custom widget stuff to allow end-users to pick the folder icon.

Jeff