Form control for multiple association on aspect reference

AlfrescoZZZ

Hi i need to emulate the dialog show from the action "manage-aspects" , on a field form control on Alfresco Share.

My point is to make the user select a list of aspect and send that list to the java backend service code with the post of the from and in that moment i use the aspects selected from the user for making things on the java code.

I have tried to emulate the  Multiple association with person nodes

(you can find a example on this project GitHub - angelborroy/alfresco-controls: Samples for Alfresco Share controls )

This is a simple model:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<model name="up:testModel" xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">

    <description>eeeee</description>
    <author>eeeeeeeeeeeeee</author>
    <published>eeeeeeeeee</published>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <imports>
         <!-- Import Alfresco Dictionary Definitions -->
         <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d"/>
         <!-- Import Alfresco Content Domain Model Definitions -->
         <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm"/>
         <!-- Import Alfresco Data List Model Definitions -->
         <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/datalist/1.0" prefix="dl"/>
    </imports>

    <namespaces>
        <namespace uri="extension" prefix="up"/>
    </namespaces>
    
    <aspects>
        <aspect name="up:test">
            <title>Test</title>
            <properties>
                <property name="up:testMultipleText">
                  <title>testMultipleText</title>
                  <type>d:text</type>
                  <multiple>true</multiple>
                  <index enabled="true">
                    <atomic>true</atomic>
                    <stored>false</stored>
                    <tokenised>false</tokenised>
                  </index>
                </property>
             </properties>
            <associations>
                <association name="up:testMultipleAssociation">
                    <title>testMultipleAssociation</title>
                    <source>
                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                        <many>true</many>
                    </source>
                    <target>
                        <class>cm:content</class>
                        <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                        <many>true</many>
                    </target>
                </association>
            </associations>
            <overrides></overrides>
            <mandatory-aspects></mandatory-aspects>
        </aspect>
    </aspects>

</model>

I need to save  a list of name of the aspects or a list of associations to the aspects on the post of the form.

Anyone have already done this?

Greetings.

roberto_gamiz

Hello,

You can not associate aspects with documents using an association in the model.

The simplest and quickest way but of course not the best is using the param option of selectmany control with a text or multitext property:

<field id="up:testMultipleText">
   <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/selectmany.ftl">
      <control-param name="options">up:aspect|Aspect,up:aspect2|Aspect2,up:aspect3|Aspect3</control-param>
   </control>
</field>
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However, the correct way will be indeed develope a custom control based on selectmany but obtaining the options using an Ajax call to the repository.

Regards.