Properties File Discovery - Alfresco Federation Services - 3.2 - 3.2 - Ready - Alfresco - external - Alfresco/Alfresco-Federation-Services/3.2/Alfresco-Federation-Services/Using/Integrations/Job-Setup-and-Configurations/Job-Mappings/Properties-File-Discovery - 2025-03-04

Alfresco Federation Services
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Alfresco
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Alfresco Federation Services
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3.2
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If you ever have the situation where Discovery can’t automatically find your fields, but you know they will be there, then you can create your own mappings with a properties file.

In some systems, like email headers or iManage, fields can be dynamic and so Discovery can’t find them. To add your own fields, do the following:

  1. Create a properties file that will contain your fields. An example can be found in your installation: 
     tomcat/webapps/3sixty-admin/WEB-INF/classes/propertiesFileDiscoverySample.properties
  2. Edit this file, or the one you created if it’s different: 
     # Fields Types
 # CHECKBOX,DATETIME,TEXT,TEXTAREA,INTEGER,LONG,DECIMAL,DOUBLE,URI,READONLY,BINARY,ANY
 #
 # Format
 # type.field=field type
 # If they key has a space in it, replace the space with the unicode value:
 # u0020
 # Historicalu0020Documents.field=CHECKBOX
 document.name=TEXT
 document.description=TEXTAREA
 document.createddate=DATETIME
 folder.name=TEXT
 folder.isversion=CHECKBOX
  3. Create a properties file discovery instance and point it to your properties file. Run it and your types and fields should show up, and now you can use them in job mappings.