CMIS: How to create secondary type?

It is very simple using CMIS work bench. Below step-by-step procedure explains how to create secondary type ‘abcOrganization’ and add properties to this secondary type.

Step 1: Open cmis work bench.

Step 2: From the tool bar, click on the button ‘Types’.

Step 3: Select any existing secondary type and save the type definition as JSON.

Step 4: Update the downloaded json in step 3 as per your needs.

abcSecondaryType.json

{
 "id": "abc:secondaryType",
 "localName": "abc:secondaryType",
 "localNamespace": "http:\/\/apache.org",
 "displayName": "abc:secondaryType",
 "queryName": "abc:secondaryType",
 "description": "Builtin InMemory type definition abc:secondaryType",
 "baseId": "cmis:secondary",
 "parentId": "cmis:secondary",
 "creatable": false,
 "fileable": false,
 "queryable": true,
 "fulltextIndexed": false,
 "includedInSupertypeQuery": true,
 "controllablePolicy": false,
 "controllableACL": false,
 "typeMutability": {
  "create": true,
  "update": true,
  "delete": true
 },
 "propertyDefinitions": {
  "abc:contactUs": {
   "id": "abc:contactUs",
   "localName": "abc:contactUs",
   "displayName": "Secondary String Property",
   "queryName": "abc:contactUs",
   "description": "Contact us for any queries",
   "propertyType": "string",
   "cardinality": "single",
   "updatability": "readwrite",
   "inherited": false,
   "required": false,
   "queryable": true,
   "orderable": true,
   "openChoice": false
  },
  "abc:help": {
   "id": "abc:help",
   "localName": "abc:help",
   "displayName": "Secondary Integer Property",
   "queryName": "abc:help",
   "description": "You will get documentation here",
   "propertyType": "integer",
   "cardinality": "single",
   "updatability": "readwrite",
   "inherited": false,
   "required": true,
   "queryable": true,
   "orderable": true,
   "openChoice": false
  }
 }
}

Step 5: Click on the button ‘Create Type’ -> Load Type Definition from JSON.

Upload the ‘abcSecondaryType.json’ file that we created in step 4.

Once you uploaded, you can able to see the custom secondary type.

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