Have anybody created a custom dialog or page in Alfresco Share to let users update one or more property values for several documents at once? I'm going to implement such a functionality, but don't want to reinvent a wheel. So if a similar solution already exists - please let me know. In more details, the solution as I see it would be: User selects several documents/folders in a folder; Clicks "Selected Items" -> "Edit properties" A dialog is shown similar to standard Edit Properties dialog, with only properties shown which are available for all of selected documents/folders; User changes some values, clicks Save and all documents get updated.

Reputation: 262

Alfresco Share: mass (bulk) update metadata

Have anybody created a custom dialog or page in Alfresco Share to let users update one or more property values for several documents at once?

I'm going to implement such a functionality, but don't want to reinvent a wheel. So if a similar solution already exists - please let me know.

In more details, the solution as I see it would be:

User selects several documents/folders in a folder;
Clicks "Selected Items" -> "Edit properties"
A dialog is shown similar to standard Edit Properties dialog, with only properties shown which are available for all of selected documents/folders;
User changes some values, clicks Save and all documents get updated.

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 1978

I wrote a blogpost on this issue:

Basically it involves the following steps:

Create a new multiple-action as you suggest above.
In the action, assure all nodes are of same type, if so invoke the regular form for the first nodeRef in the list but with a new form-id (that you define in share-config-custom.xml). Also supply a list of the nodes you want to update.
Create a new edit-form template ftl that populates a hidden field with the nodeRefs to update.
Subclass the NodeFormProcessor on the repo-side to do the nodePersist in a loop for all supplied nodes.

For more details:

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 4079

As far as I know, there is not such an addon for Alfresco Share available yet - at least not publically. Good Luck!

Upvotes: 0