topic Re: Document Mamagement Feature only. in Alfresco Archive

Document Mamagement Feature only.

salman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:03:23 GMT

I want to embed document management feature in my web site, that allow the user to browse the document repository that contains word docs, pdf, images etc. There is no publishing web site, just simple view, edit, delete of documents. The user should be able to see tree structure on the top right co

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

mrogers — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:28:12 GMT

Alfresco is built to be embedable so there should be no problems.

However the approach of taking share and then stripping it down could create extra work, depending upon how much of share you want. If you want lots of Share then fine use it, but if not then it will probably just get in the way.

You can actually browse the repo via webscripts with no "front end" webapp. Or there are JSR 168 portlets. Or you can use a CMIS client. There's lots of options.

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

salman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:44:20 GMT

Thanks, I will try these options out.

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

salman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:06:09 GMT

Is there any tutorial about how to configure share using java.

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

ddraper — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:07:58 GMT

It is possible to configure Alfresco through JMX - however, this is an Enterprise only feature. You can find information here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JMX and here: http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/jmx-intro-config.html

However, I'm not entirely sure that this is what you want to do since you've asked about configuring Alfresco Share… could you be more specific in what you want to configure (and why you want to do this in Java)?

Regards,
Dave

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

salman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:37:16 GMT

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your prompt reply, I am also following it with another thread. All I need to do is to allow back office users to manage the documents (Word, PDF, images etc) from withen the web aplication. I need to embed this facility to the top right corner of browser, possibly an iframe or something. It would only be tree structure of the repository with facility of CRUD like operations. I think using web scripts is cumbersome as alfressco share client is very rich in functionality. I am thinking in lines of removing all the unwanted frames and and only displaying the tree structure of document repository in this iframe. And also the possibility of single sign on from my web application. The alfresco would be running on separarte tomcat and my application is running on JBOSS.

Please let me know the best and simple way to achieve it. It does not have to be java.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Salman.

Re: Document Mamagement Feature only.

ddraper — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:59:49 GMT

The Share client interacts with the Alfresco repository entirely by means of the WebScript REST API. So if you wish to leverage the functionality that Share provides then you can either customize Share to hide the parts that you don't actually want or your could write your own client and the choice of how your interact with the Alfresco repository is entirely up to you, be it REST API, CMIS, etc. If you just want to display certain parts of Share in an iFrame then you'll still need to hid the parts you don't want - alternatively there is also the portlet option as was suggested on your other thread.

My personal recommendation would be to add the additional functionality (pages, components, etc) you require into Share using the Surf/WebScript framework and re-use the parts of Alfresco that you want to keep. However, you should be aware that such an extreme customization of Share would probably be quite a challenging exercise. Whilst WebScript and Surf may not be familiar to you they are the most likely to yield the best results as this is what Share is developed using.

Regards,
Dave