Nach meinem Studium im Fachbereich Angewandte Informatik an der BA Stuttgart arbeite ich nun seit 2007 bei der PRODYNA AG im Raum Frankfurt am Main in mein Arbeitsleben. Anfänglich als IT-Consultant / Software Engineer noch stark im Bereich der Cliententwicklung auf Basis Eclipse RCP leite ich mittlerweile seit 2009/2010 als Senior IT-Consultant / Software Architect unser “Solution Center” Enterprise Content Management. In diesem Bereich bin ich auch aktiv am Ausbau und der Ausgestaltung unserer Partnerschaft mit Alfresco beteiligt.
Auch wenn ich mit der Zeit immer mehr mit Managementtätigkeiten und weniger in der Entwicklung beschäftigt sein werde, so bleibt doch meine Faszination mit den (Un-)Tiefen und Interna von komplexer Software. Dieser Blog dient daher neben meinem natürlichen Mitteilungsbedürfnis auch der Aufarbeitung von Themen rund um diese Faszination. Aufgrund meiner aktuellen Beschäftigung wird ein gewisser Bias in Richtung Alfresco-bezogenen Themen wohl unvermeidbar bleiben.
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Dear Axel,
We have conversed before through the Alfresco forums. I had asked some questions and during the course of the interactions you had pointed out the add-on made by you to achieve Site hierarchies over and above a flat list of Alfresco sites.
I’ve been trying to use the forums to ask you a query regarding the add-on. I am not sure if you are receiving any notifications so I thought I will use this contact form to get in touch with you.
I’m sorry for troubling you like this but I am a little desperate as I have to give an update to my supervisors. Essentially, my supervisors would ideally like having a mechanism of allowing a project to have multiple parents. Because a system component they design can be used as a sub-component in multiple bigger systems.
I was wondering how much effort would it be to actually tweak your plugin for this or whether it is already possible. Looking forward to your reply. And please accept my sincerest of gratitude for the help already rendered by you in the forums.
Best,
Kaustubh
Hello Kaustubh,
as I have not had time to maintain this blog for a long time and am receiving quite a lot of spam comments, I unfortunately missed the notification about your valid comment. The site hierarchy addon I was talking about can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/Acosix/alfresco-site-hierarchy. I believe I did see your message on the forum and did reply to it, but due to the amount of activity on community.alfresco.com I cannot find it right now to verify. Allowing multiple parents would technically be only a small change in the multiplicity of the parent-child associations. Taken together the UI, backend changes and any adaptions to secondary features should all be doable in less than a day. The limitation to single parents primarily resulted from the requirements of the customer for which I initially developed this addon.
Regards
Axel