Tag Archives: IBM Content Navigator

Fetch a custom property for all objects or rows

This post explains how to fetch a custom property you’ve added on a class for all documents retrieved by ICN, before all attributes are actually retrieved using the ContentItem.retrieveAttributes function. That means all items when displayed as row in the Content List view will have this property (also named attribute in ICN) already fetched. There are use cases for this, two of them being:

Using a custom attribute in the isVisible or isEnable function of an action, to decide if the action should be displayed based on business logic. I wrote about this here
Using a custom property to display a new icon along with the lock/compound/readon-only/… icons. I wrote about this here

After spending some time investigating how ICN works to know what custom properties to fetch when retrieving the content of a folder (openFolder action), I came to the conclusion it goes through two steps:
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Create your custom attribute editor (part 6)

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Last part of this tutorial will be about enhancing our editor to make it a bit nicer. The idea is to create a property editor to select a file within the repository. We will use the DocumentSelector dialog we wrote here.

We are actually really close of achieving this, we will just hook up the click event of the input field to start the DocumentSelector dialog, and we will also add a Browse button on the right of the input to make it more user-friendly.
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Write a filtered Repository File Selector Dojo dialog

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This tutorial will explain how to write a dialog allowing users to choose a file in a repository with a pretty tree selector. We will also add a feature to filter files based on extension. The tree will only show documents ending with a valid filter.

This is the final result:

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Bug in resize of ecm.widget.FolderTree

Create your custom attribute editor (part 5)

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Add custom settings to your editor

We learned in previous parts how property editors work, how to write a custom editor, a widget for the editor, and how to test it.

In this part, we will learn how to add custom settings to your editor, located right below the editor select box in the Entry Template Designer tool. It looks like this: (remember, in our current version there is nothing)

Settings are part of the the editorConfig you are injecting in the ControlRegistry object (ControlRegistry.editors.editorConfigs array). The config can have a settings property, which is an array of object defining the settings. Here is how it looks like:
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Create your custom attribute editor (part 4)

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To summarize what we’ve done so far:

In part 1, we created a new plugin and learned how to inject a custom editor in the ICN configuration
In part 2, we wrote our custom editor
In part 3, we wrote our custom widget

We will now deploy the plugin and use our custom editor in an entry template. Then we will add a new document using this entry template, and we should see our custom editor in used.
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Create your custom attribute editor (part 3)

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Create the widget

In part 2, we learned how to write the Editor and how to inject it in the ICN configuration. In this part, we will write the widget used to edit the property value.

For this tutorial , we will focus on a simple widget, composed only of a text box. I will add an extra part at the end of this tutorial describing a more complex widget.

HTML Template

As you may already know, a dojo widget (dijit) is made of two files, the dojo class (JavaScript) and the template (HTML). First, let’s create the html template, defining our widget presentation. Create the file customEditorPluginDojo/widgets/templates/MyCustomTextWidget.html and paste in it the following content:


<div class="myClass">
    <!-- The node that should get the focus should have the focusNode attach point. pvr/widget/_Property._createEditorWidget needs this because it wants to set the aria-labelledby on it -->
    <input data-dojo-type="ecm.widget.ValidationTextBox" data-dojo-attach-point="inputField,focusNode" name="${id}_inputText" id="${id}_inputText" />
</div>

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