Adding custom attributes

You can add, update, or search custom attributes. These attributes can be defined in a review template or review. Attributes can also be used to search templates and reviews. By default, custom attributes are stored in the rca_custom_attribute table. The table stores the data in a key-value pairs and therefore, you can choose to store these attributes in a user-specific schema. To enable the attributes, custom processes are used.

The building block provides following configuration parameters for the Review Commenting & Approval Core service:

• Whether to use custom processes to store/update/search custom attributes - Flag to determine whether to delegate the store/update/search functionality to custom processes.

• Process which stores custom attributes: Name of process that stores custom attributes in user-defined schema.

• Process which updates custom attributes: Name of process that updates custom attributes in user-defined schema.

• Process which searches custom attributes: Name of process that searches custom attributes in user-defined schema.

You can create a custom attribute called Release that can have values such as ES, ES2, or ES2.5 in a user-defined table named ReviewRelease .

The first step is to create a table in the database. For example, use the following SQL command:

CREATE TABLE  `adobe9`.` ReviewRelease ` ( 
        `reviewId` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', 
        'release` varchar(16) default NULL, 
        PRIMARY KEY  (`reviewId`)

After creating the table, you can add custom attributes when you initiate a review template. Custom attributes are key-value pairs as shown in the following Flex code:

var customAtt1:CustomAttribute =  new CustomAttribute(); 
customAtt1.attrKey = "Type"; 
customAtt1.attrValue = _TypeMetadata; 
var customAtt2:CustomAttribute = newCustomAttribut e(); 
customAtt2.attrKey = "Version"; 
customAtt2.attrValue = _VersionMetadata; 
var tsf : TemplateSearchFilter = new TemplateSearchFilter(); 
tsf.customAttributes.addItem(customAtt1); 
tsf.customAttributes.addItem(customAtt2);