Overriding / modifying default content model code

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mnorth

Hi all,

First off, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be asking this; if not, I apologise for putting it here. With that out of the way…

I'm looking at the code behind Labs to see if I can do things such as:

- Remove "content" from the content type drop-down menu. I've added new types for categorisation, but am wondering if the default "content" value can be removed without breaking things;
- Create a custom metadata field that, instead of typing into, can have the value selected from a drop-down/combobox menu, and
- Hide some of the default metadata fields that appear when adding new content.

I've been reading through the documentation, and I've learned a lot about Alfresco already, but I'm unsure as to how to do the above. I gather that overriding the default code (possibly by altering a copy of it to suit my needs, and then declaring the .XML or other files) would do it, but I'm not 100% sure if this can be done in XML only, or if Java editing would be required. Any information or examples that people could provide would be *MASSIVELY* appreciated. 

burriad

If you figured it out, I'd be very interested in the answer as well