Last update: 2015 Dec 10

Creating a rule

This link shows how to use the ruleset API: http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/web-scripts/create-edit-rule-script-10032008-0712

All related to the same API:

http://{host}:{port}/alfresco/service/api/node/{storageType}/{storageName}/{nodeid}/ruleset/rules

The JSON structure is explained here: https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Rule_REST_API_Design_Notes

Grabbing a rule

How to grab the JSON description of the rule of id 1336be04-e409-47bc-a212-c28ebe8b0259 owned by the node 18c06c13-d012-4b1d-8259-1861387357c7.

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/18c06c13-d012-4b1d-8259-1861387357c7/ruleset/rules/1336be04-e409-47bc-a212-c28ebe8b0259

API:

• http://{host}:{port}/alfresco/service/api/node/{storageType}/{storageName}/{nodeid}/ruleset/rules
  Gives all rules under that nodeid
• http://{host}:{port}/alfresco/service/api/node/{storageType}/{storageName}/{nodeid}/ruleset/rules/{rule_node_id}
  Gives the detailed description of a given rule

Enable/Disable a rule

If you know the nodeid of a rule node and its owner node, then you can disable/enable it at will with the following:

curl -X PUT \
    http://admin:admin@localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/node/workspace/SpacesStore/18c06c13-d012-4b1d-8259-1861387357c7/ruleset/rules/1336be04-e409-47bc-a212-c28ebe8b0259 \
    -d '{"disabled": "true"}'

With the field disabled set to true if you want it disabled.

(See https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Rule_REST_API_Design_Notes for more details).