Editable create date

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ajshaw

Hi. I wan't to temporarily make the create date and modified date fields editable. This is because the use of webdav has destroyed some metadata.


<show-property name="created" read-only="false" show-in-edit-mode="true" /> 

results in some drop down lists being shown to select the date, but it's greyed out and un-editable.  Can anyone help?  Thankyou.

dschmalz

Hi. I wan't to temporarily make the create date and modified date fields editable. This is because the use of webdav has destroyed some metadata.


<show-property name="created" read-only="false" show-in-edit-mode="true" /> 

results in some drop down lists being shown to select the date, but it's greyed out and un-editable.  Can anyone help?  Thankyou.

If you look at the definition of the the "created" property in the content model (contentModel.xml), you will find the following:

   <aspect name="cm:auditable">
         <title>Auditable</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="cm:created">
               <title>Created</title>
               <type>d:datetime</type>
               <protected>true</protected>
               <mandatory enforced="true">true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:creator">
               <title>Creator</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
               <protected>true</protected>
               <mandatory enforced="true">true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:modified">
               <title>Modified</title>
               <type>d:datetime</type>
               <protected>true</protected>
               <mandatory enforced="true">true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:modifier">
               <title>Modifier</title>
               <type>d:text</type>
               <protected>true</protected>
               <mandatory enforced="true">true</mandatory>
            </property>
            <property name="cm:accessed">
               <title>Accessed</title>
               <type>d:datetime</type>
               <protected>true</protected>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
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In other terms, the "cm:created" property is protected, which, from my understanding, means that once it has been set, it cannot be updated. This is a good practice because if you want to perform audit, you cannot afford that some code changes this value. You can probably disable temporarily the protection by changing this file and restart Alfresco, although I would not recommend it.

David