add parent/chld example please

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arusellcampion

Dear experts
I'm trying in vain to code up a class that will create a node and a child ie parentFolder->childFolder in one pass using Alfresco Webservices. I've posted here earlier (see "creatng parent->child folders via API " http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=35369) but am still looking for help as to how to go about it. I imagine I'd do a CMLCreate followed by a CMLAddChild but I'm struggling without further guidance.

I'm using Alfresco Community 3.3.

Thanks,

Andrew

rwetherall

Hi Andrew,

I'll try and outline what I think your CML should look like (in JSON Style).  You should be able to take this and construct the relevant CML object to pass to the update web service method.

"cml" :
[ 
      "create" : 
      { 
          "id" : "myparent",
          "parent" : <parent reference to the node we want the parent>,
          "associationType" : <name of the association type>,
          "childName" : <name of the association>,
          "type" : <folder type>
      },
     "create" :
     {
          "id" : "mychild",
          "parent_id" : "myparent",
          "associationType" : <name of the association type>,
          "childName" : <name of the association>,
          "type" : <child type>
     }
]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hopefully you will be able to see that it is the use of the "parent_id" element in the create CML object that enables us to create a new node as a child of a node previously created in the same CML statement.

We can use the same "parent_id" reference when applying aspects, etc to nodes created in the same CML object.

Hope this helps,
Roy