Step-by-Step: Finishing up the Model

Let's finish up the model by doing two things: First, the remaining departments need content types added to them. Second, there is an out of the box aspect that needs to be applied to all the content. It's called generalclassifiable. It allows content to be categorized. SomeCo wants all of its content to be classifiable as soon as it hits the repository. To make that happen, you need to define the aspect as mandatory. Because SomeCo wants it across the board, you can do it on the root type sc:doc, and have it trickle down to all of SomeCo's types.

To add the remaining departmental content types as well as make the generalclassifiable aspect mandatory, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the scModel.xml file.
  2. Add the the following types:
        <type name="sc:hrDoc">
         <title>Someco HR Document</title>
         <parent>sc:doc</parent>
        </type>
    
        <type name="sc:salesDoc">
         <title>Someco Sales Document</title>
         <parent>sc:doc</parent>
        </type>
    
        <type name="sc:opsDoc">
         <title>Someco Operations Document</title>
         <parent>sc:doc</parent>
        </type>
    
        <type name="sc:legalDoc">
         <title>Someco Legal Document</title>
         <parent>sc:doc</parent>
        </type>
  3. Modify the sc:doc type to include cm:generalclassifiable as a mandatory aspect. Note that you can add as many mandatory aspects as you need:
        <type name="sc:doc">
         <title>Someco Document</title>
         <parent>cm:content</parent>
         <associations>
    
         </associations>
         <mandatory-aspects>
         <aspect>cm:generalclassifiable</aspect>
         </mandatory-aspects>
        </type>
  4. Save the model file.
  5. Run ant deploy and restart Tomcat.

Watch the log for content model-related errors. If everything starts up cleanly, you are ready to move on. In the next set of examples, you'll configure the web client so that you can work with your new model.