DMS - Database

Description

This document management system module retrieves a list of document associated with an entity from a database.

The information required when configuring the DB DMS is provided by a data definition, the dms tag links an entity to the data definition which is then used to retrieve a list of attributes to display to the user along with a URL that can be used to display the document in question.

Any number of attributes can be retrieved from the database for display to the user.

Namespace

urn:com.cohga.server.dms.provider.db#1.0

Tags

dms

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Description
id	string	yes	unique identifier
entity	ref urn:com.cohga.server.entity#1.0	yes	The entity that this DMS will provide documents for
name	string	yes	The name of this DMS
datadefinition	ref urn:com.cohga.server.data#1.0:datadefinition	yes	A reference to a data definition that will supply the attributes and URL link for each document
acl	ref urn:com.cohga.server.acl#1.0:acl	no	A reference to an ACL to attach to the dms

Sub-tags

Name	Type	Cardinality
acl	urn:com.cohga.server.acl#1.0:acl	0..1

Content

None

Notes

The name is used because there may be more than one DMS attached to an
entity type and this helps the user differentiate beween them

Examples

A simple example that uses a table that has a description and url column

<data:datadefinition id="property_doclink">
	<datasourcedataconnection datasource="docsource" table="PROPERTY_DOCLINK" key="PID">
		<parameter column="description">
		<parameter column="url"/>
	<datasourcedataconnection>
</data:datadefinition>

<dbdms:dms id="old_docs">
	<name>Uploaded Documents</name>
	<entity>property</entity>
	<datadefinition>property_doclink</datadefinition>
</dbdms:dms>

Creating a list of documents to display properties in google maps.
The data definition constructs the url by concatenating a the first part of a google maps search to a pre-formatted address column from the database.

<data:datadefinition id="property_google">
	<datasourcedataconnection datasource="docsource" table="PROPERTY_DOCLINK" key="PID">
		<parameter name="url" type="url" text="Display in Google Maps" url="'http://maps.google.com.au/?q='|address"/>
		<parameter column="address"/>
	<datasourcedataconnection>
</data:datadefinition>

<dbdms:dms id="google">
	<name>Google Maps</name>
	<entity>property</entity>
	<datadefinition>property_google</datadefinition>
</dbdms:dms>

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