Alternative for Relationship Types

[cloudydwayne]

Greetings,

I'm new in using OpenKM and I've read that the application of relationship types is available at 6.4 version but not in 6.3. Is there an alternative for this in version 6.3??

Thank you in advance.

[jllort]

Next release will be 6.3.2 what still with not include relations feature, but in version 6.3.3 we will release all features what will include stampling extension ( is an older implementation of relations, it makes similar feature - not 100% the same - )

[cloudydwayne]

Hi jllort,

First of all thank you for your reply. Second is, is there any chance a way that I can implement a simple child - parent/parent - child relationship for the documents in the community version 6.3.1? And what does stampling do in the previous versions of OpenKM?

[jllort]

The stapling feature what will be released in version 6.3.3 will be https://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Stapling

About how extending feature now, you should modify source code and add a tab for relations, new table for relations and logic ( api ) for it. Another solution should be linking documents with metadata, but you will get poor feature if you go in this direction. I can provide you some clues about how doing it, but at least for getting something decent you will need 2-4 weeks of working.

[cloudydwayne]

I would like to learn on how to extend the feature now. I literally have no idea on how to do this. Can you provide some clues on how to do it?

[jllort]

First download our portable dev environment https://sourceforge.net/projects/openkmportabledev/

When you got it running start for example adding a new tab in the document tabs, you can take a look:
https://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/TabDocumentExtension

https://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Enabl ... extensions
In the source code take a look for class named "TabFolderExample.java"

When you get this step will be able to continuing with others.

[cloudydwayne]

Hello,

Does the other solution linking documents with metadata also involves in using the portable dev environment?

[jllort]

Using metadata should not be necessary develop anything. Will not be so elegant. For example you can create a metadata with 10 input fields of type link -> then copy there the url link into. Or simply copy the links into a text area.