Collection Types

A Collection Type Definition allows you to

• configure the layout for the collection tree
• alongside various behaviour of the fusion application when working with this Collection Type.

Customizing the tree

As mentioned before, Dossier Organizer allows to group and sort collections according to business needs. Element metadata affects the tree representation, in terms of nodes and leafs and how the elements are visualized in the tree, as you can see in the following examples:

Chronological (flat)	Logical (by tag & date)	Chronological (grouped)

Collection Type ↔ Collection

The Collection Type is defined in the collection itself, in the field "typeId".

Also, all the collection and element metadata is available for logic decisions when defining rules for the collection Type. Therefore, it is important to match a specific collection type with matching metadata from the collection.

Sample collection:

  {
  "id": ...,
  "metadata": {
    "my": {
      "collection": {
        "metadata": "foo"
      }    
    }
  },
  "elements": [
    {
      "id": ...,
      "tags": [...],
      "metadata": {
        "my": {
          "element": {
            "metadata": "bar"
          }    
        },
        "other": {
          "metadata": "bar"  
        }
      },
      "specification": {
        "type": "embeddedArtifact",
        "mediaType": "text/markdown",
        "content": "# Hello World"
      }
    }
  ],
  "typeId": "MY_COLLECTION_TYPE"  // <--- the collection type
}

In this example the collection type is defined in the field "typeId" as "MY_COLLECTION_TYPE". The Organizer that is used to work with this collection has to have a collection Definition with exactly this Type, otherwise the collection cannot be displayed.

An Example of a matching Collection definition would look like this:

---
id: MY_COLLECTION_TYPE
name: My Test Collection
description: A collection type for tutorial purposes

allowAllTags: false
permittedTags:
  - Tag 1
  - Tag 2

editableMetadata:
create:
edit:
  - key: my.element.metadata
    label: My Property
  - key: other.metadata
    label: Multiselect property
    options:
      - Option 2
      - Option 1

globalRules:
  - type: javascript
    name: global_rules
    scriptCode: |
      // global rules go here to be reused in multiple locations

eventRules:
  - type: javascript
    name: my_event
    scriptCode: |
      // custom event code goes here

views:
  - name: Example View 1
    elementRules:
      - type: javascript
        name: simple hierarchy
        scriptCode: |
          // element rules execute on each element once
        treeRules:
      - type: javascript
        name: sort rule
        scriptCode: |
          // tree rule

If you want to implement a specific ruleset for your integration, feel free to contact our team at levigo, and we will help to create a matching configuration.

For more information about how to use collection type definitions please refer to the Collection Type Definition