Alfresco tutorial: Custom content types including Share config and CMIS

Hi jeff,
thanks for great tutorial,

I downloaded the code of your example, I changed my settings using build.properties file:

# Used by the CMIS Web Services and examples
alfresco.sdk.dir = C :/ Documents and Settings/silverio.giancristof/workspace/alfresco-sdk-4.0.b
# Used by the content model, Explorer config, config examples and Share
alfresco.webapp.dir = C :/ tomcat/Instance1/webapps/alfresco
share.webapp.dir = C :/ tomcat/Instance1/webapps/share

But nothing happens on Alfresco that I do not see the changes when i try change type in any document. What is wrong?

Hi Jeff,

on eclipse i make right click on build.xml and run ant and i see BUILD SUCCESSFUL, but i don’t see unpacked Share WAR in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share

Great tutorial!
Just a question.. i created a new content model but i cant hide any properties of the original cm:content from which i derived my own model (title or description). Hide option in share-config-custom.xml doesnt work for me.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance

Hi Jeff,

I followed your tutorial and had no problem until Localizing Strings part. After restarting tomcat, Share can’t be loaded (HTTP Status 404). I think I don’t see any errors in log.

When I removed the custom-slingshot-application-context.xml file, Share is back to normal.

Hi Jeff,
Great tutorial, thanks.

I have a quick question — I’m trying to setup a peer association with a piece of custom content that represents an internal legal entity.

With the association picker, I am able to click “select” and choose an association of that type. However, I can’t actually browse with the association picker itself — I can only pick content of the appropriate type if it’s in the folder that the association picker opens in.

I’ve implemented a {doclib} tag, which allows me to start in a certain place and choose entities in the top-level of the doclib, but I’m obviously missing something because I can’t “browse” to that location as I would expect. No amount of double clicking helps.

This manifests itself in Chrome and IE.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chris

Hi Jeff,

I read your article and you wrote about many ways to modify Share interface to use new content type but haven’t mentioned “Create content” function.

My question is “Is it possible to add newly created content type and add it inside Create content menu and create it with dummy Word document or PDF as a content?”.

I tried to add function of creating basic cm:content node with word document as a mime type but it fails. It creates node but mime type of document is Undefined. Creating google documents works but I’m not sure how to use that with my custom content type.

Thank you,
John

Hi Jeff,

I have the same question as John Scarab about the create
content menu and adding custom types to this. Can you give
an guidance on how to do this in Alfresco 4 Share.

Thanks for all the great insights into Alfresco,

Jon

Hi,

I need help for preview for content model.I am using alfresco 4.0.2.0 enterprise trial version.While I create my custom type,the preview is not reading my content as I use d:text instead of d:content.I read some of the comments that web preview/preview is hardcoded for content type.Can anybody help me how to customize the preview for my custom type insetad of default content type.

Jeff,
Thanks for this excellent article! Unfortunately, I have found the Alfresco web documentation rather difficult to follow. I was not able to use any of the documentation on the Alfresco website to understand how to set up my own content model. However, your article on custom content models got me up and running in a day, with a much better understanding of how these things work!

Naturally, having built my own basic custom content model following your example, I now have some questions about taking this further:
- Does Alfresco support dependent property constraints? e.g. the values available in one constraint depend on the value selected for a previous constraint.
- Similar to the above… Can I have dynamic metadata forms in Alfresco? e.g. the properties shown depend on values selected for prior properties. I have a “my:filetype” property that is constrained to “document” or “image”. When I set the value to “document”, the form shows the “my:doctype” property, from which I can select “final report”, or “guideline”. When I set the value to “image”, the form shows the “my:imagetype” property.
- How do I report a bug I found when commas are used in LIST constraints?

Hi Jeff
the tutorial was great, thank you.
I was wondering if with Share it is still possible to create dynamic custom model.
We would be able to create/edit new models without restarting Alfresco and based on this wiki page
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide#Step_by_Step_Model_Definition

the old Alfresco interface allows us to do that.
Does it work for Share?
if so, Is there any wiki page saying where to place Share config files under Alfresco repository folders?
thank you

Hi Jeff,

I have Alfresco Community 3.4.d and I followed your instructions to create two metadata fields but I’m not able to create an advanced search for them because they are not shown in the advanced search form.

How can I do it?

Hi, I tryed your code from second edition of custom model creation – and it dosen’t work with share 4.2.c. I can see aspects in web client but in share there is nothing.

Is there a change to version 4.2 of Alfresco that affects the display of custom types and aspects in folder rules? Following your guide in a previous version (4.0.e) worked fine, but in 4.2.c the new types and aspect don’t show up in the rules form.

I also noticed that it only works if you use the share-config-custom.xml which is placed within tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension and not in the tomcat/webaps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension.

Thanx.