topic Re: Extending explorer in Alfresco Archive

Extending explorer

thetoolman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:05:21 GMT

How do we customised the explorer, for example adding group-specific "home pages" with buttons to quickly start processes. And what about extending the forms to more comprehensive inputs? Wiring in management of real domain objects?I had been expecting to write the whole interface for each proces

Re: Extending explorer

jbarrez — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:28:09 GMT

The explorer webapp can be extended, the source is available after all.

However, we did not created it with extensibility in mind.

Re: Extending explorer

thetoolman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:04:56 GMT

OK, so is Explorer supposed to be a demo or a production tool ?

Re: Extending explorer

jbarrez — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:26:14 GMT

At this point in time, I would say it is a demo tool. However, I've heard that some people use it in production.
Note that in the coming time, we will make Explorer more powerful and become a real production tool.

Re: Extending explorer

heymjo — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:59:01 GMT

Would it be possible to give a few hints about the explorer roadmap in terms of features and expected delivery dates ?

We are now at a point where we need to decide if we're going to invest time in customizing the existing explorer or redevelop something similar as a vaadin component to be embedded for each application. Since the explorer is currently 'DEMO' we're hesitant to invest too much time in the first option. We have seen the vaadin blog entry about activiti so maybe we'll start from there.

On the other hand, since you also seem to be going down the vaadin route (yay!) would it not be feasible to be able to plug the full process explorer as a customizable vaadin component in an application ? That would be very cool

Jorg

Re: Extending explorer

jbarrez — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:50:36 GMT

Imo, the safest bet will always be to build it yourself.
Our UI's will always be generic, and mostly 'demo-ware' as our main focus is obviously the engine.

And if you are using Vaadin, it shouldnt take more than a week, right 😉