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Etienne Roy, modified 12 Years ago.
Custom field on DL not updating
Regular Member Posts: 114 Join Date: 8/8/13 Recent Posts
Hi,
I create a custom field for the Documents and Media Document
this new field add automatically on the page
When I add a new document, the new field was saved in the expendo table but I can't update this field after

Do I have to make a modification to update the field ?

thanks
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Zsigmond Rab, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
Liferay Master Posts: 764 Join Date: 1/5/10 Recent Posts
Hi Etienne,

why cannot you update? What is the symptom either on the UI or in the log files.

Regards,
Zsigmond
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Fabian Leonardo Lopez, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
New Member Posts: 12 Join Date: 9/18/13 Recent Posts
I'm having the same problem,

after creating some expando columns programatically they appear to be working fine even creating the DL entry but after creation if i try to update any of the custom attributes nothing happend however the normal attributes of the DL entry change as expected.

more information here
any ideas?
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Nagendra Kumar Busam, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
Liferay Master Posts: 678 Join Date: 7/7/09 Recent Posts
Which version of liferay you are using?

Can you share code snippet for how you are adding your custom fields programmatically , so that we can look where the actual issue is
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sushil patidar, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
Expert Posts: 467 Join Date: 10/31/11 Recent Posts
Etienne Roy:
Hi,
I create a custom field for the Documents and Media Document
this new field add automatically on the page
When I add a new document, the new field was saved in the expendo table but I can't update this field after

Do I have to make a modification to update the field ?

thanks


Hi,
I think problem is related to update permissions. Have you set update permissions for that custom field. First assign update permissions,then check.
I hope this may help you.


Thanks
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Fabian Leonardo Lopez, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
New Member Posts: 12 Join Date: 9/18/13 Recent Posts
Hi.

In my case, I am having this problem with the portal administrator, however y put all the permissions for the field to the power user role wich is also a role on the user i'm using but the custom field remains unmodified.

I'm using version 6.1 GA3 of LP if that brings any light on the matter.

Thanks in advance.
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Fabian Leonardo Lopez, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Custom field on DL not updating
New Member Posts: 12 Join Date: 9/18/13 Recent Posts
Finally made it work!!

i developed a hook in the struts action /document_library/edit_file_entry
after the entry is updated i manually set the expandos with a couple of methods that looks something like this.


private static final Pattern EXPANDO_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("ExpandoAttribute--(.*)--");

private void updateExpandosForFileEntries(PortletRequest request, FileEntry fileEntry){
		Set<string> values = new HashSet<string>();
		
		for(String param :  request.getParameterMap().keySet()){
                        // aplies the method only to the expando parameters
			Matcher matcher = EXPANDO_PATTERN.matcher(param);
			if(matcher.find()){
				String expandoParam = matcher.group(1);
				
				if(values.contains(expandoParam)){
					continue;
				}
				else{
					updateExpandosForFileEntry(request, expandoParam, fileEntry);
					values.add(expandoParam);
				}
			}
		}
		
	}



private void updateExpandosForFileEntry(PortletRequest request, String expandoName, FileEntry fileEntry){
		
		String nameParam = "ExpandoAttribute--" + expandoName + "--";
		String paramValue = request.getParameter(nameParam);
		
		if(Validator.isNotNull(paramValue)){
			int type = fileEntry.getExpandoBridge().getAttributeType(expandoName);
			if(type == ExpandoColumnConstants.BOOLEAN){
				fileEntry.getExpandoBridge().setAttribute(expandoName, paramValue.equals("1")?true:false);
				return;
			}
			fileEntry.getExpandoBridge().setAttribute(expandoName, paramValue);
		} else{
			String dateYear = nameParam + "Year";
			String dateMonth = nameParam + "Month";
			String dateName = nameParam + "Day";
			String dateAmPm = nameParam + "AmPm";
			String dateHour = nameParam + "Hour";
			String dateMinute = nameParam + "Minute";
			
			Calendar expandoCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
			
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateYear));
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateMonth));
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateName));
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateAmPm));
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateHour));
			expandoCalendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, ParamUtil.getInteger(request, dateMinute));
			
			try {
				fileEntry.getExpandoBridge().setAttribute(expandoName, expandoCalendar.getTime());
			} catch (Exception e) {
				_log.error(e);
			}
		}
	}
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