Hello, all!
We want to associate journal articles to polls in such a way that we can automatically provide a link to an article when showing a poll. For that, we intend to follow the following steps:
- Create a new service with service builder, whose the sole entity will have two foreign keys pointing to both the journal article and the poll
- Create a hook to change the Poll registration form, adding a field to select a journal article when creating the poll
- Change the poll creation action so it can save the relationship entity associating the poll to the journal article
If we were using Liferay 6 SP2 or later we could do all of it with a hook, since
hooks can update struts actions in these versions. Since we do use Liferay 6 SP1 and cannot migrate for a newer version for now, we wonder how to get what we need. Apparently, the best solution is an extlet or to create a hook and an associated patch jar, but these seem to be hard solutions to a simple problem.
Am I right? Is there an easier way to solve this problem? How would you all associate two service entities in Liferay?
Thanks in advance!
