In the previous post we have learned about what are webscripts and its role in Alfresco. In this post I will explain how to create a simple webscript in Alfresco. We are going to create Alfresco JavaScript based webscript. Here we are creating webscript which fetch all the document of particular type from repository and return html file with all those properties.
Step1:
Create WebScript Description file getDocs.get.desc.xml
<alfresco-config>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="WebFramework">
<web-framework>
<defaults>
<page-type>
<id>login</id>
<page-instance-id>custom-login</page-instance-id>
</page-type>
</defaults>
</web-framework>
</config>
</alfresco-config>
Step2:
Create Webscript javascript controller file getDocs.get.js
<page> <template-instance>custom-login</template-instance> <authentication>none</authentication> </page>
Step3:
Create Freemarker Template File getDocs.get.html.ftl
<page> <template-instance>custom-login</template-instance> <authentication>none</authentication> </page>
Step4:
Upload all three files under you alfresco installation under following path
CompanyHome>Data Dictionary> Web Scripts Extensions
Step5:
Restart the server hit this url
http://<host>:<port>/alfresco/service/fetchdocs
You are good to go to test above webscript you need to hit this url in your browser you will see list of documents of custom content type.
This type of webscripts is very powerful tool to expose alfresco webscript to external application. It is lightweight. It is easy to create and deploy and update. You can deploy your changes on the fly without restarting the server that is the best thing about this type of webscript.
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i have created the webscript to fetch the custom content type document using the specified aspect type but it was not working could you please help in this.
docdetails.get.desc.xml
Document Details
Searches document(s) and displays details of allthe documents.
/com/infoaxon/docdetails
user
required
docdetails.get.html.ftl
Found Documents with name: ${TYPE}
Name
Create Date
Creator
Size (bytes)
${c.name}
${c.properties[“cm:created”]?datetime}
${c.properties[“cm:creator”]}
${c.size}
Search Parameter not provided.
docdetails.get.js
function main()
{
var TYPE = args.TYPE;
var qry = (“TYPE:\”{http://www.someco.com/model/content/1.0}webable);
var docs = search.luceneSearch(qry);
model.docs = docs;
model.TYPE = TYPE;
}
main();
in node browser i can see my aspect type as:{http://www.someco.com/model/content/1.0}webable
Hi Deepa,
Type and Aspects are different things. You are using type query instead of that you need to use Aspect query.
ASPECT:”{http://www.someco.com/model/content/1.0}webable”
Also in FTL file you need to iterate through list of docs to get properties.
< #list docs as c>< #if c.isDocument>
something like this