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thaneshk

Hi,

I wanted to be able to create a couple of default spaces during the initalization of my custom application. Therefore i did the following. I already have a custom model in place and working.

I created custom-context.xml and placed it in alfresco/extension and added the following lines


<bean id="spacesBootstrap" parent="spacesStoreImporter">
            <property name="bootstrapViews">
                <list>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/bootstrap/spaces.xml</prop>
                        <prop key="messages">alfresco/extension/messages/bootstrap-spaces</prop>
                    </props>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/bootstrap/system.xml</prop>
                    </props>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/bootstrap/categories.xml</prop>
                    </props>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.guest_home.childname}</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/bootstrap/tutorial.xml</prop>
                        <prop key="messages">alfresco/messages/bootstrap-tutorial</prop>
                    </props>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.dictionary.childname}/${spaces.templates.childname}</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/templates/software_engineering_project.xml</prop>
                        <prop key="messages">alfresco/messages/bootstrap-templates</prop>
                    </props>
                    <props>
                        <prop key="path">/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.dictionary.childname}/${spaces.templates.content.childname}</prop>
                        <prop key="location">alfresco/templates/content_template_examples.xml</prop>
                    </props>
                </list>
            </property>
    </bean>
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I also added spaces.xml from alfresco/bootstrap to alfresco/extension/bootstrap and did the same for bootstrap-spaces.properties

The following is spaces.xml


<view:view xmlns:view="http://www.alfresco.org/view/repository/1.0"
           xmlns:cm="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0"
           xmlns:app="http://www.alfresco.org/model/application/1.0">

    <!– NOTE: all replaced properties referenced from repository.properties file must also be
              mapped in the bootstrap-context.xml spacesBootstrap/configuration section –>
   <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.company_home.childname}">
        <view:acl view:inherit="false">
            <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
            </view:ace>
        </view:acl>
      <app:uifacets />
      <cm:name>${spaces.company_home.name}</cm:name>
      <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
      <cm:title>${spaces.company_home.name}</cm:title>
      <cm:description>${spaces.company_home.description}</cm:description>
      <cm:contains>
         <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.dictionary.childname}">
            <app:uifacets />
            <cm:name>${spaces.dictionary.name}</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>${spaces.dictionary.name}</cm:title>
            <cm:description>${spaces.dictionary.description}</cm:description>
            <cm:contains>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.templates.childname}">
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.templates.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.templates.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.templates.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.templates.content.childname}">
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.templates.content.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.templates.content.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.templates.content.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.savedsearches.childname}">
                        <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                            <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                                <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                                <view:permission>Contributor</view:permission>
                            </view:ace>
                        </view:acl>
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.savedsearches.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.savedsearches.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.savedsearches.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
            </cm:contains>
         </cm:folder>
            <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.guest_home.childname}">
                <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>guest</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                </view:acl>
                <app:uifacets />
            <cm:name>${spaces.guest_home.name}</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>${spaces.guest_home.name}</cm:title>
            <cm:description>${spaces.guest_home.description}</cm:description>

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            </cm:folder>
              <cm:folder view:childName="cm:digital_assets">
                <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>guest</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                </view:acl>
                <app:uifacets />

            <cm:name>${spaces.xpflow_dam.name}</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>${spaces.xpflowdam.name}</cm:title>
            <cm:description>${spaces.xpflowdam.description}</cm:description>
            <cm:contains>
               <cm:folder view:childName="cm:thumbnails">
                        <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                            <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                                <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                                <view:permission>Contributor</view:permission>
                            </view:ace>
                        </view:acl>
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.xpflowthumbnail.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.xpflowthumbnail.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.xpflowthumbnail.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
            </cm:contains>
            </cm:folder> 
      </cm:contains>
   </cm:folder>

</view:view>

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boostrap-spaces.xml


# Labels used in bootstrap Space definitions

spaces.company_home.name=XP
spaces.company_home.description=The XP root space
 
spaces.dictionary.name=Data Dictionary
spaces.dictionary.description=User managed definitions

spaces.templates.name=Space Templates
spaces.templates.description=Space templates

spaces.templates.content.name=Presentation Templates
spaces.templates.content.description=Presentation templates

spaces.savedsearches.name=Saved Searches
spaces.savedsearches.description=Saved Searches

spaces.guest_home.name=Guest Home
spaces.guest_home.description=The guest root space

spaces.xpflowdam.name=Digital Asset Storage
spaces.xpflowdam.description=Area to store Digital Assets

spaces.xpflowthumbnail.name=Thumbnail Storage
spaces.xpflowthumbnail.description=Area to Store Digital Assets' Thumbnails

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Now custom.properties

# Spaces Configuration

spaces.store=workspace://SpacesStore
spaces.company_home.childname=app:xpflow
spaces.guest_home.childname=app:guest_home
spaces.dictionary.childname=app:dictionary
spaces.templates.childname=app:space_templates
spaces.templates.content.childname=app:content_templates
spaces.savedsearches.childname=app:saved_searches
spaces.xpflowdam.childname=cm:xpflowdam
spaces.xpflowthumbnail.childname=cm:xpthumbnail


the solution works fine if i put the child name of the space in the spaces.xml.

so instead of putting ${spaces.xpflowdam.childname} if i put cm:xpflow, everything works fine. But when i put "${spaces.xpflowdam.childname}" and expect it to get the value from custom.properties it doesnt and i cant load the application after refreshing the db.

Why is this happening. Any ideas?

Cheers

-Thanesh
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Comments

felipe

Hello,
It's probably not the solution for your problem, but you have a little error on your spaces.xml file
– <cm:name>${spaces.xpflow_dam.name}</cm:name> –
must be replace by
– <cm:name>${spaces.xpflowdam.name}</cm:name> –
the _ on your name.

Good work.

davidc

I looked over your configuration and couldn't see anything wrong outside of the fix suggested by felipe. Did that work for you?

felipe

Hello,
I'm working on the same approach than thaneshk in order to create a custom space at bootstrap.
I don't really understand how your custom.properties is referred by Alfresco?
Is that file automaticly read?

A solution if you don't want to modify the repository.properties (if you work with the Alfresco's source code), that I use too, is to put the content of custom.properties in the bootstrap-spaces.properties you 've overridden.

I've a little question too.
All seems to work fine but I don't see the space in the web client???

Anyone can help me please? Thanks.

lnagra

Hi,

I would be interested to know if either felipe or thaneshk got this to work successfully.

I am trying to create spaces and categories at bootstrap in Alfresco ECMS 1.4. We had this working successfully by modifying /alfresco/bootstrap/categories.xml and /alfresco/bootstrap/spaces.xml in Alfresco 1.2.

However, this approach doesn't work very well for upgrading at a later date and it would be nice to try keeping our code seperate from Alfresco's.

I have created a JAR that contains:

alfresco.extension.custom-bootstrap-context.xml
alfresco.extension.bootstrap.custom-categories.xml
alfresco.extension.bootstrap.custom-spaces.xml
alfresco.extension.messages.custom-bootstrap-spaces

The idea is to have the -context.xml read automatically and refer to the custom-categories.xml and custom-spaces.xml

e.g.

alfresco.extension.custom-bootstrap-context.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

   <bean id="spacesBootstrap" parent="spacesStoreImporter">
               <property name="bootstrapViews">
                   <list>
                       <props>
                           <prop key="path">/</prop>
                           <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/bootstrap/custom-spaces.xml</prop>
                           <prop key="messages">alfresco/extension/messages/custom-bootstrap-spaces</prop>
                       </props>
                       <props>
                           <prop key="path">/</prop>
                           <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/bootstrap/custom-categories.xml</prop>
                       </props>
                   </list>
               </property>
   </bean> 
   
</beans>
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e.g.

alfresco.extension.bootstrap.custom-spaces.xml

<view:view xmlns:view="http://www.alfresco.org/view/repository/1.0"
           xmlns:cm="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0"
           xmlns:app="http://www.alfresco.org/model/application/1.0">

    <!– NOTE: all replaced properties referenced from repository.properties file must also be
              mapped in the bootstrap-context.xml spacesBootstrap/configuration section –>
   <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.company_home.childname}">
        <view:acl view:inherit="false">
            <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
            </view:ace>
        </view:acl>
      <app:uifacets />
      <cm:name>${spaces.company_home.name}</cm:name>
      <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
      <cm:title>${spaces.company_home.name}</cm:title>
      <cm:description>${spaces.company_home.description}</cm:description>
      <cm:contains>
         <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.dictionary.childname}">
            <app:uifacets />
            <cm:name>${spaces.dictionary.name}</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>${spaces.dictionary.name}</cm:title>
            <cm:description>${spaces.dictionary.description}</cm:description>
            <cm:contains>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.templates.childname}">
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.templates.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.templates.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.templates.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.templates.content.childname}">
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.templates.content.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.templates.content.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.templates.content.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
               <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.savedsearches.childname}">
                        <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                            <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                                <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                                <view:permission>Contributor</view:permission>
                            </view:ace>
                        </view:acl>
                  <app:uifacets />
                  <cm:name>${spaces.savedsearches.name}</cm:name>
                  <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
                  <cm:title>${spaces.savedsearches.name}</cm:title>
                  <cm:description>${spaces.savedsearches.description}</cm:description>
               </cm:folder>
            </cm:contains>
         </cm:folder>
            <cm:folder view:childName="${spaces.guest_home.childname}">
                <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>guest</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                </view:acl>
                <app:uifacets />
            <cm:name>${spaces.guest_home.name}</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>${spaces.guest_home.name}</cm:title>
            <cm:description>${spaces.guest_home.description}</cm:description>
            </cm:folder>

            <cm:folder view:childName="Published">
                <view:acl view:inherit="false">
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>guest</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                    <view:ace view:access="ALLOWED">
                        <view:authority>GROUP_EVERYONE</view:authority>
                        <view:permission>Consumer</view:permission>
                    </view:ace>
                </view:acl>
                <app:uifacets />
            <cm:name>"Published"</cm:name>
            <app:icon>space-icon-default</app:icon>
            <cm:title>"Published</cm:title>
            <cm:description>"The space for all published content"</cm:description>
            </cm:folder>

      </cm:contains>
   </cm:folder>

</view:view>
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I've dropped the packaged JAR into a clean Alfresco exploded tomcat install in WEB-INF/lib

They don't appear to show. Is this because the bootstrap has already happened?

Is this approach the recommended method for seperating bootstrap configuration from Alfresco code?

Is there a way to force the bootstrap to occur?

Many thanks,

Lakhdip