how to access alfresco-global.properties from FTL based on environments

Question

I have extended the footer page that is deployed as a separate jar in alfresco share[webapps/share/WEB-INF/lin/xx.jar] and try to display the value in ftl file by reading the value from alfresco-global.properties that is placed in the below path.Is it possible to display the value in ftl file from global properties file?This value should be changed based on environments.

C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes

alfresco-global.properties

displayValue=xyz

footer.get.html.ftl

<@markup id="footer-extension-html" target="html" action="replace" scope="global">
   <@uniqueIdDiv>
      <div class="footer ${fc.getChildValue("css-class")!"footer-com"}">
         <span class="copyright">
            <a href="#" onclick="Alfresco.module.getAboutShareInstance().show(); return false;"><img src="${url.context}/res/components/images/${fc.getChildValue("logo")!"alfresco-share-logo.png"}" alt="${fc.getChildValue("alt-text")!"Alfresco Community"}" border="0"/></a>
            <#if licenseHolder != "" && licenseHolder != "UNKNOWN">
               <span class="licenseHolder">${msg("label.licensedTo")} ${licenseHolder}</span><br>
            </#if>
            <span>${msg(fc.getChildValue("label")!"label.copyright")}</span><br><br>
            <span style='margin-left:175px;'><font size="1">Display Value*******</font>:<b><font face="verdana" color="green">${displayValue}</font></b></span>
         </span>
      </div>
   </@>
</@>

footer-extension.xml

    <extension>
        <modules>
            <module>
                <id>application Footer Extension</id>
                <description>Display Value</description>
                <auto-deploy>true</auto-deploy>
                <customizations>
                    <customization>
  <sourcePackageRoot>com.xxxts.components.footer</sourcePackageRoot>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.components.footer</targetPackageRoot>
                    </customization>
                </customizations>
            </module>
        </modules>
    </extension>

Dave Draper Dave Draper · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-13T08:07:12

Basically you can't access the global properties from a FreeMarker template as you are trying to do. The fundamental reason for this is that global properties are configured for the Alfresco Repository, not Share.

If you want to access configurable properties you're better off defining them in the XML configuration files used by Share.

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how to access alfresco-global.properties from FTL based on environments

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