Question

I need to rename some labels on workflow forms. I think I’ve found the resource bundle that need to be edited. It’s slingshot.properties file.

I changed values of workflow.field.message and workflow.field.comment to my preference and restarted Alfresco but nothing’s changed. Did I miss something?

Answer 1

1. In $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension, create a new file called custom-slingshot-application-context.xml with the following content:

   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
   <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>
   <beans>
       <bean id="mycustom.resources" class="org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.ResourceBundleBootstrapComponent">
           <property name="resourceBundles">
               <list>
                   <value>alfresco.web-extension.messages.mycustom</value>
               </list>
           </property>
       </bean>
   </beans>
   

2. In $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension/messages, create a file called mycustom.properties with the following content:

   workflow.field.message=Whatever You Want
   

3. Restart Tomcat

Notes:

• Please use something more descriptive than “mycustom” in both the
  bean ID and the properties file name. This is just an example.
• Create folders where they don’t exist already.