Alfresco-share:What is difference between custom model created using model manager and custom model created by someModel.xml file in content-tutorial-platform-jar

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ajay_k

Hello,

                             I'm confused of difference between custom model created using model manager in admin tools of share and custom model created using someModel.xml file in content-tutorial-platform-jar(filepath:$TUTORIAL_HOME/content-tutorial-platform-jar/src/main/resources/alfresco/module/content-tutorial-platform-jar/model).

I had a few questions about this

1) Why alfresco provided two ways to create custom model and what is the difference?

2)Can we perform advanced search by custom model created from anyone of two ways?

Thanks 

Ajay

afaust

Creating a custom model via the model manager is an extremely restricted way of creating a model. The tools is a minimal viable product and as such only provides access to maybe 60-70% of the features. It also adds various issues around model lifecycle management and potential reuse. The Content Model Manager in Share was implemented as an after-thought to support prototyping / trivial customization use cases.

In my point of view, there is only one way to define custom models, and the Content Model Manager is "just" a tool that allows non-technical people to create trivial models with a limited scope (and still shoot themselves in the foot) without having to understand much of the underlying technical impications.

Since the Content Model Manager creates a model just as if that model would have been defined in XML, there are no differences with regards to features that work on nodes using types / aspects / properties from that model. Search works just the same....