Hi there guys , in a previous blog i provided a nice trick to add documents to a case directly after adding a new case ,check here : http://ecmmania.blogspot.ae/2017/06/add-documents-to-case-on-add-case-page.html
today i was playing a round and trying to understanding a bit further dojo deferred and promises and at last i found a trick to be able to add documents to a case subfolder directly after adding a new case,
the main problem in my old code is that you can only add docs to the root case folder not to a sub folder and by trying to use callbacks to retrieve the case sub folder then opening the dialog you can see that the chain is broken and the code won't execute and will break
this problem arises from the fact that you can make only one asynchronous call and then use the callback to retrieve the response and do something with it
but using deferreds and promises i can do it now , the main ideas is to make like a chain of promises that depend on each other and once a promise is fulfilled the next promise will be triggered so i first make a deferred to get the case folder then another deferred to get the case sub folder and lastly i open a add content item dialog to add document to the case sub folder
i will leave you with the code , i wrapped it inside a function you can just call and pass the payload to it , you can also change the path of the subfolder that you want to store into or maybe create your custom add content item dialog and show it
addSubFolderDocs: function(payload) {
require(["dojo/Deferred", "dojo/dom", "dojo/on", "dojo/domReady!"],function(Deferred, dom, on){
var getCaseFolder = function(payload){
var deferred = new Deferred();
var caseEditable = payload.caseEditable;
console.log("caseEditable");
console.log(caseEditable);
caseEditable.getCase().retrieveCaseFolder(function(parentCaseFolder){
deferred.resolve(parentCaseFolder);
});
return deferred.promise;
};
/*var showAddDocumentDialog = function(parentCaseFolder){
var deferred = new Deferred();
var repositroy = parentCaseFolder.repository;
console.log("repositroy");
console.log(repositroy);
var addContentItemDialog = new ecm.widget.dialog.AddContentItemDialog();
addContentItemDialog.show(repositroy, parentCaseFolder,true, false, function(addedItem){
addToSubFolder(addedItem);
}, null, false, null);
return deferred.promise;
};*/
var getSubFolder = function(parentCaseFolder){
var deferred = new Deferred();
console.log("parentCaseFolder");
console.log(parentCaseFolder);
var rootPath = parentCaseFolder.attributes.PathName;
var fullPath = rootPath + "/" + "Leasing Documents";
parentCaseFolder.repository.retrieveItem(fullPath, function(subfolder){
console.log("Subfolder");
console.log(subfolder);
deferred.resolve(subfolder);
}, null, null, null, null, null);
return deferred;
};
/*var folderRetrievedCB = function(subfolder,addedItem){
console.log("enter --> folderRetrievedCB <----this items to add");
console.log(addedItem);
console.log("enter --> folderRetrievedCB <----subfolder " + subfolder);
subFolder.moveToFolder(addedItem,addedItem.parent,function(response){
console.log("Response");
console.log("response");
});
subFolder.refresh(subFolder);
};*/
var executeFn = function(payload){
var getCaseFolderPromise = getCaseFolder(payload);
getCaseFolderPromise.then(function(parentCaseFolder){
return getSubFolder(parentCaseFolder);
}).then(function(subfolder){
console.log("Promise Sub Folder");
console.log(subfolder);
console.log("Promise Repo ID");
console.log(subfolder.repository.repositoryId);
var repository = ecm.model.desktop.getRepository(subfolder.repository.repositoryId);
console.log("Promise repository");
console.log(repository);
var addContentItemDialog = new ecm.widget.dialog.AddContentItemDialog();
addContentItemDialog.show(repository, subfolder,true, false, function(addedItem){
console.log("addedItem");
console.log(addedItem);
}, null, false, null);
});
};
executeFn(payload);
});
return payload;
}
today i was playing a round and trying to understanding a bit further dojo deferred and promises and at last i found a trick to be able to add documents to a case subfolder directly after adding a new case,
the main problem in my old code is that you can only add docs to the root case folder not to a sub folder and by trying to use callbacks to retrieve the case sub folder then opening the dialog you can see that the chain is broken and the code won't execute and will break
this problem arises from the fact that you can make only one asynchronous call and then use the callback to retrieve the response and do something with it
but using deferreds and promises i can do it now , the main ideas is to make like a chain of promises that depend on each other and once a promise is fulfilled the next promise will be triggered so i first make a deferred to get the case folder then another deferred to get the case sub folder and lastly i open a add content item dialog to add document to the case sub folder
i will leave you with the code , i wrapped it inside a function you can just call and pass the payload to it , you can also change the path of the subfolder that you want to store into or maybe create your custom add content item dialog and show it
addSubFolderDocs: function(payload) {
require(["dojo/Deferred", "dojo/dom", "dojo/on", "dojo/domReady!"],function(Deferred, dom, on){
var getCaseFolder = function(payload){
var deferred = new Deferred();
var caseEditable = payload.caseEditable;
console.log("caseEditable");
console.log(caseEditable);
caseEditable.getCase().retrieveCaseFolder(function(parentCaseFolder){
deferred.resolve(parentCaseFolder);
});
return deferred.promise;
};
/*var showAddDocumentDialog = function(parentCaseFolder){
var deferred = new Deferred();
var repositroy = parentCaseFolder.repository;
console.log("repositroy");
console.log(repositroy);
var addContentItemDialog = new ecm.widget.dialog.AddContentItemDialog();
addContentItemDialog.show(repositroy, parentCaseFolder,true, false, function(addedItem){
addToSubFolder(addedItem);
}, null, false, null);
return deferred.promise;
};*/
var getSubFolder = function(parentCaseFolder){
var deferred = new Deferred();
console.log("parentCaseFolder");
console.log(parentCaseFolder);
var rootPath = parentCaseFolder.attributes.PathName;
var fullPath = rootPath + "/" + "Leasing Documents";
parentCaseFolder.repository.retrieveItem(fullPath, function(subfolder){
console.log("Subfolder");
console.log(subfolder);
deferred.resolve(subfolder);
}, null, null, null, null, null);
return deferred;
};
/*var folderRetrievedCB = function(subfolder,addedItem){
console.log("enter --> folderRetrievedCB <----this items to add");
console.log(addedItem);
console.log("enter --> folderRetrievedCB <----subfolder " + subfolder);
subFolder.moveToFolder(addedItem,addedItem.parent,function(response){
console.log("Response");
console.log("response");
});
subFolder.refresh(subFolder);
};*/
var executeFn = function(payload){
var getCaseFolderPromise = getCaseFolder(payload);
getCaseFolderPromise.then(function(parentCaseFolder){
return getSubFolder(parentCaseFolder);
}).then(function(subfolder){
console.log("Promise Sub Folder");
console.log(subfolder);
console.log("Promise Repo ID");
console.log(subfolder.repository.repositoryId);
var repository = ecm.model.desktop.getRepository(subfolder.repository.repositoryId);
console.log("Promise repository");
console.log(repository);
var addContentItemDialog = new ecm.widget.dialog.AddContentItemDialog();
addContentItemDialog.show(repository, subfolder,true, false, function(addedItem){
console.log("addedItem");
console.log(addedItem);
}, null, false, null);
});
};
executeFn(payload);
});
return payload;
}
