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Prateeksha Mandloi, modified 12 Years ago.
Customize Document & Media Library
Regular Member Posts: 112 Join Date: 2/5/14 Recent Posts
Hi all,

I am trying to modify document & media Library portlet's functionality. Here is what all I am trying to acheive :

I want to create separate root folders for different Document & Media Portlet. Is it possible to acheive ??
I did this -

dl.store.file.system.root.dir=${liferay.home}/data/document_library/my_folder

But it changes root for all portlets..Has anyone did this ??

Also is liferay sync of my use ?? Does it provide additional features to Liferay's CMS



Thanks in advance.
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Zsigmond Rab, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Customize Document & Media Library
Liferay Master Posts: 764 Join Date: 1/5/10 Recent Posts
Hi Prateeksha,

what you're trying to use is the path in the file system

If you want to have different root folders to show in different appearance of the Document and Media portlet, it's not possible. That portlet data for a group (site) and shows the exactly same data in each of its appearance on each of the page of a group.

You can use the Document and Media Display for something like this.

Regards,
Zsigmond
Prateeksha Mandloi, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Customize Document & Media Library
Regular Member Posts: 112 Join Date: 2/5/14 Recent Posts
Thanks for your reply Zsigmond ,

What you described is normal behaviour for document and media portlet, can it be customized as per my requirement ???

i.e.,, if I have 2 such portlets on two different pages/sites, can they be connected to two folders at different locations? By hook or ext ??
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Zsigmond Rab, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Customize Document & Media Library
Liferay Master Posts: 764 Join Date: 1/5/10 Recent Posts
Hi Prateeksha,

unfortunately, there isn't a function like this. The data is always connecting to a group as a page set also. If you put the Document and Media portlet to multiple page set in a group, the portlet will show the same data in all of the portlets.

Do you want to separate the data completely, or only show different folders from the same structure?

Both is possible with customization, however, I think, the latter one is easier.

For the first one you need to implement some logic which can have multiple separated document structure in a group.

For the second you can implement the same logic which is in the Document and Media Display portlet.

Regards,
Zsigmond
Prateeksha Mandloi, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Customize Document & Media Library
Regular Member Posts: 112 Join Date: 2/5/14 Recent Posts
hey Zsigmond,

I want to separate the data completely . So do I have to hook and which file I have to override. Do you have any idea ??

Also, I want to change my Files storage path as :

"dl.store.file.system.root.dir=D:/NewFolder/document_library/data"

but it gives
D:\NewFolder/document_library/data\10154\13514\701\1.0 (The system cannot find the path specified) error


what I can do to acheive this ???
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Zsigmond Rab, modified 11 Years ago.
RE: Customize Document & Media Library
Liferay Master Posts: 764 Join Date: 1/5/10 Recent Posts
Hi Prateeksha,

one other thing came into my mind. Is it fine if the data is connected to pages? If you put a Document and Media portlet to a page, you can set that page as a scope for that portlet and all of the documents which will be created through that page will have the page as a scope. So that document structure will be independent from others.

The disadvantage is that you can see those documents only on that page.

if that is not fine for you, you have to redesign the logic. You have to find out something to save the documents to beside the groups and modify the logic on all of the levels. You could introduce some new property for documents and folders like the portal use the scopeGroupId.

Unfortunately it's not that easy question to answer. It needs new design.

Regards,
Zsigmond