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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128163
Pages 528 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Benjamin Chevallereau Benjamin Chevallereau
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Jeff Potts Jeff Potts
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. The Alfresco Platform 2. Getting Started with Alfresco 3. Working with Content Models 4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors 5. Customizing Alfresco Share 6. Creating an Angular Application 7. Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts 8. Advanced Workflow 9. Amazing Extensions 10. Security

How to use indicators


The manager that asked to use traffic lights to have a quick understanding of the status complained that he/she has to click on each document to be able to see the status. To be more efficient, it seems that the indicator should be displayed directly in the document list. Hopefully, Alfresco provides the concept of indicators. A content in Alfresco can have one or more indicators and are used to reflect certain states. This will involve:

  1. Create three evaluators to be able to differentiate the different states

  2. Create three indicators for each possible state.

Step-by-step - creating indicators for the status indicator

  1. The first step is to create indicators, as we do for the actions. Update the file share-slingshot-application-context.xml where you already created all indicators. We need to create one evaluator for each color of the traffic light:

    <bean id="evaluator.doclib.action.statusIsGreen"  parent="evaluator.doclib.metadata.value"> 
        <property name="accessor...
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