Custom Content Model

To create your custom content model we need following files :

1. Model file ( which is our own new file with custom metadata)
2. Context file (which is useful to pointing our custom model file)
3. web-client-config-custom.xml  entry (which visibles our metadata in webclient)

In our case we have following 3 sample file to demonstrate this custom model.

1. zModel.xml
2. custom-model-context.xml
3. web-client-config-custom.xml

zModel.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  
 <!-- Custom Content Model -->  
  
 <!--    types and aspects added here will automatically be registered -->  
 <model name="z:customModel" xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">  
   <!-- Optional meta-data about the model -->  
   <description>Custom Content Model</description>  
   <author>XYZ</author>  
   <version>1.0</version>  
   <imports>  
    <!-- Import Alfresco Dictionary Definitions -->  
    <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d"/>  
    <!-- Import Alfresco Content Domain Model Definitions -->  
    <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm"/>  
   </imports>  
   <!-- Introduction of new namespaces defined by this model -->  
   <!-- NOTE: The following namespace custom.model should be changed to reflect your own namespace -->  
   <namespaces>  
    <namespace uri="custom.model" prefix="z"/>  
   </namespaces>  
 <types>  
 <type name="z:employee">  
 <title>EmployeeType</title>  
 <parent>cm:content</parent>      
 <properties>  
        <property name="z:empID">  
 <title>Employee ID</title>  
 <description>Employee ID</description>  
         <type>d:text</type>  
         <mandatory>true</mandatory>  
 </property>  
 <property name="z:empCity">  
 <title>City</title>  
 <description>City</description>  
         <type>d:text</type>  
         <mandatory>false</mandatory>  
       </property>  
 <property name="z:joinDate">  
 <title>Join Date</title>  
 <description>Employee Join Date</description>  
         <type>d:date</type>  
         <mandatory>true</mandatory>  
       </property>  
 </properties>   
  </type>  
  </types>  
 </model>  

 custom-model-context.xml
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>  
 <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>  
 <beans>  
   <!-- Registration of new models -->   <bean id="z.dictionaryBootstrap" parent="dictionaryModelBootstrap" depends-on="dictionaryBootstrap">  
     <property name="models">  
       <list>  
         <value>alfresco/extension/zModel.xml</value>  
       </list>  
     </property>  
   </bean>  
 </beans>  

web-client-config-custom.xml
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<alfresco-config>   
 <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Content Wizards">  
    <content-types>  
      <type name="z:employee" />  
    </content-types>  
   </config>  
   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="z:employee">  
    <property-sheet>  
      <show-property name="z:empID" />  
      <show-property name="z:empCity" />   
      <show-property name="z:joinDate" />  
    </property-sheet>  
   </config>  
 </alfresco-config>

Please keep these 3 files in the following location :

<alf_home>\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension

Restart alfresco server.

In the web-client while uploading any content you will get new type like below :

and after content uploaded we have 3 new property visible 

This is sample demonstration about custom model.