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How to link document library to my public web site?

lehaihua444 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:58:48 GMT

Hi all, I just watched a video called "Making Web Content Management Easy with Alfresco Share 3.2" from the blue fish development group. They have a public traditional website that everyone can see, and when they add a new document under document library inside Alfresco Share, they can see the d

Re: How to link document library to my public web site?

zaizi — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:07:04 GMT

Web scripts. http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts.

Check out the default webscript available in Alfresco http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index and Share http://localhost:8080/share/service/index.

1. Create a webscript to return list of documents from a specific space / folder as either HTML or XML. Include this html snippet in your traditional website or parse the XML.

2. Do something similar for your articles.

If you look at the existing web scripts, you'll find there are web scripts that already do this. Like the ones in the samples folder: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index/package/org/alfresco/sample

Re: How to link document library to my public web site?

lehaihua444 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:39:48 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I have spent a lot of time on it since I got your reply. I found the script that can return the contents in a directory, which is called "Folder Listing Sample". However, I don't understand how can I return these values as a html or xml file? I mean how can I include these values (the contents + the links) into my traditional html files?

Thanks in advance

Re: How to link document library to my public web site?

stevegreenbaum — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:11:26 GMT

One approach is to use an ajax call to your webscript which can return json or xml.