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Executing a script

slothrop

I would like to have users copy the contents of a space to another space using Javascript in v. 2.1. The only way I know how to do this currently is by the following sequence of events from the space details page:

Run Action > Select "Execute a Script" from a dropdown > Set Values and Add > Select the script from a dropdown.

I would prefer to simplify this process somehow. Clicking on an icon or a link from the space Details page would be good. How would I proceed to do this?

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slothrop

If this can't be done, is it possible to have only a subset of the JavaScript files displayed in the dropdown in a particular space. If I have many javascript files for use in different spaces, it might be confusing for users to have to select among them - even if they are given descriptive names.

paullewon

Hi,

You can add a hypothetical copyFiles.js script as a custom menu action to the space browse menu by placing code similar to this in your web-client-config-custom.xml file:

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="copy_files">
            <label>Copy Files</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/copyFiles.js</script>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
         <action-group id="space_browse_menu">
            <action idref="copy_files" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Paul

slothrop

Thanks Paul,
This could be really helpful. But where is the reference to the space? Should the action-group id have a path - like "/Company Home/Submissions/space_browse_menu"?

paullewon

Hi,

You can hard code the destination space as a path in your .js:

var put_here = companyhome.childByNamePath("Content Updating Project/Backup Folder");‍

Or am I misunderstanding you?

Paul

slothrop

Paul,
I see now that you were responding to my first post and not my second.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

kevinr

It is possible to call scripts via URL:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/URL_Addressability#Script_Command_Processor

So you could construct the appropriate URLs to the scripts and add them as links to a custom version of the space details page JSP.

Thanks,

Kevin

slothrop

Paul,
The xml code you recommended works for adding the action to the space dropdown but the dropdown is only available from outside the space. If I want to move content from the User Homes/User/Submissions space I have to be in the User Homes/User space to select the file from the dropdown. When I do that both "parent" and "space" are undefined for some reason.

This is not the end of the world, though. I can assume that the user will only want to submit content from his or her Submissions folder and hard code it in, i.e.

var sourceFolder = userhome.childByNamePath("Submissions");‍

When I do this everything executes as it should. The contents are moved but the web client goes to an error page containg only something like this,
"org.mozilla.javascript.Undefined@e55d75."

Nothing is sent to the log. When executing from inside the space details page via the

"Run Action > Select "Execute a Script" from a dropdown > Set Values and Add > Select the script from a dropdown"

sequence described above. It works fine but this is much less convenient than I would like.

Kevin,
I've looked at the space-detail.jsp file. That is one gnarly beast. I'm not sure I'm ready to dig in to it just yet.

kevinr

The resulting page you see is not an error - it is the script output. It is quite common to want to return to the previous page after the execution of a script action. An easy way to achieve this is to add the following at the end of your script:

var goBack = "<script>history.back();</script>";
goBack;
‍‍‍‍

Kevin

patrik

Hi! I want to be able to execute a script on a file by pushing a new button for the file in the space browser.

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="test">
            <label>Test</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/testscript.js</script>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
         <action-group id="document_browse">
            <action idref="test" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>

What do i do to tell the script what it should use for its context? Something like?

<config>
      <actions>
      <!– Launch Add Aspect Dialog –>
         <action id="test">
            <label>Test</label>
            <script>/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Scripts/testscript.js</script>
<params>
            <param name="contextPath">#{actionContext.nodeRef}</param>
       </params>
         </action>
      <!– Add action to Actions Menu for a space in the SpaceBrowse screen–>
            <action-group id="document_browse">
            <action idref="test" />
         </action-group>
      </actions>
   </config>

But i want the link to be the same type as:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/command/script/execute?scriptPath=/Company%20Home/Data%20Dictionary/Scripts/testscript.js&contextPath=/Company%20Home/file.txt

Ideas? Am i on the right track?

vasuki

Hey Patrik…
I also could not figure out how to send the node's path to a Javascript through contextPath. However, using the code you pasted, I was able to send the nodeRef to the script. I used a different parameter name instead of contextPath (I used "node").

Then, in my Javascript, I was able to retrieve the document node using this line:

var node = search.findNode(args["node"]);
‍‍‍

Perhaps you may be able to use this in your script as well… Good luck!

patrik

Thanks Vasuki! It worked perfectly!

I only need to find a way so that i don't come to the page with the return from the script. Anyone who has any ideas?

mikeh

I only need to find a way so that i don't come to the page with the return from the script. Anyone who has any ideas?

Kevin posted a solution to this earlier in the thread…
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=28860#28860

Mike

patrik

Oops, that looks like an example of my ability to filter things that i don't think concern me at the moment!

Thanks