Create new evaluator in documentLibrary Action - alfresco 4 share

To create our custom evaluator we need to configure following files :

1) share-config-custom.xml

2) custom-slingshot-application-context.xml

For example let I will create my one custom action called "Start Draft Workflow" in specified type of content only and checking specified properties in it.

Step 1:  Configure first custom action and actionGroup (share-config-custom.xml)
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<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions"> <actions> 
 <action id="folder-assign-workflow" type="javascript" icon="folder-manage-permissions" label="Start Draft Workflow"> 
<param name="function">onActionAssignWorkflow</param> 
<evaluator>evaluator.doclib.action.draftTypeFolder</evaluator> 
</action> 
</actions> 
<actionGroups> 
<actionGroup id="folder-browse"> 
<action index="161" id="folder-assign-workflow" /> 
</actionGroup> 
</actionGroups> 
</config>

Step 2:  Configure bean entry in slingshot context file for evaluator (custom-slingshot-application-context.xml)
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<bean id="evaluator.doclib.action.draftTypeFolder" class="com.clms.web.evaluator.CLMSActivateDraftWorkflowEvaluator" > </bean>

Step 3:  Create java class for evaluator (CLMSActivateDraftWorkflowEvaluator.java) /** * */ package com.clms.web.evaluator; import org.alfresco.web.evaluator.BaseEvaluator; import org.json.simple.JSONObject; /** * @author ghanshyam.rathod * */ public class CLMSActivateDraftWorkflowEvaluator extends BaseEvaluator { private final static String NODEREF = "nodeRef"; private final static String DRAFT_TYPE = "clm:Draft"; private final static String AGREEMENT_STATUS = "clm:AgreementStatus"; private final static String AGREEMENT_STAGE = "clm:AgreementStage"; private final static String NODE = "node"; private final static String PROPERTIES = "properties"; private final static String STAGE_BEING_DRAFTED = "Being Drafted"; private final static String STATUS_DRAFT = "Draft"; @Override public boolean evaluate(JSONObject jsonObject) { boolean eval = false; String sAgreementStage = null; String sAgreementStatus = null; String nodeType = getNodeType(jsonObject); JSONObject node = (JSONObject) jsonObject.get(NODE); // Process only when we found clm:Draft kind of folder if (nodeType.equalsIgnoreCase(DRAFT_TYPE)) { String sNodeRef = (String) jsonObject.get(NODEREF); if (sNodeRef != null) { JSONObject properties = (JSONObject) node.get(PROPERTIES); if (properties != null) { sAgreementStage = (String) properties.get(AGREEMENT_STAGE); sAgreementStatus = (String) properties.get(AGREEMENT_STATUS); // Enable link only stage=Being Drafted and status=Draft if (sAgreementStage.equalsIgnoreCase(STAGE_BEING_DRAFTED) && sAgreementStatus.equalsIgnoreCase(STATUS_DRAFT)) { eval = true; } } } } return eval; } }
Step 4:  Finally put jar at share/WEB-INF/lib
Finally we need to take care that this evaluator can only find our jar, unless we provide jar to share class path. so through your ant build, copy alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/<custom-jar> to share/WEB-INF/lib/<custom-jar>




ENJOY !!