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Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

simh — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:34:56 GMT

Hello everyone,I am testing Alfresco community edition (4.0c) and I am wondering in there is a nice way to use it to share files with strangers who do not have an alfresco account. I wouls like to eliminate, or at least decrease, sending large files via email and provide people with links instead. S

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

mitpatoliya — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:04 GMT

There is external authentication possible in alfresco.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems

Incase those external user could be part of some LDAP or like that.

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

simh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:23:25 GMT

The idea is that sometimes I have to send an email to a complete stranger. For example some potential client asks me for an offer or more infomration about some product, and I have to send them a couple of pdf, some of them more than 1-2mb. sometimes more than 10mb.
This is just an example of course

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

mrogers — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:56:25 GMT

You can access any piece of content in the alfresco repo by URL. You don't need the UI (Share or Explorer) at all.

You just need to consider permissions and whether it should be available without authentication.

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

simh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:18:21 GMT

You can access any piece of content in the alfresco repo by URL. You don't need the UI (Share or Explorer) at all.

You just need to consider permissions and whether it should be available without authentication.

OK. Great. How?

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

jpfi — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:15:14 GMT

Hi,

http://host:port/alfresco/s/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/nodeid/yourfilename‍

e.g.

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/61e39bc5-71f5-4639-b8c5-3bd2a52d99d0/excel%20example.xlsx‍

cheers, jan

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

simh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:01:12 GMT

jpfi,
what you showed is using the alfresco explorer module. The idea is to use share module, or have something translate links to provide the end user with link to the file in alfresco explorer.

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

jpfi — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:56:12 GMT

Hi,
simply use share/proxy/alfresco instead:
http://hostort/share/proxy/alfresco/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/nodeid/yourfilename

cheers, Jan

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

simh — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:17:41 GMT

Hi,
simply use share/proxy/alfresco instead:
http://hostort/share/proxy/alfresco/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/nodeid/yourfilename

cheers, Jan

Hey Jan,
thanks for the reply. How can I obtain this url from Share? Or in other words, how can an end user quickly and easyli provide me with this working url?

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

david_ad — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:57:50 GMT

Hello,

I have the same problem, a group of end users worked on several documents in a collaborative site, now they need share a final document with external people who does'nt have an Alfresco account. I can't figure out how to resolve this.

I tried this:

http://myserver:8080/alfresco/download/attach/workspace/SpacesStore/0000-0000-0000-0000/myfile.pdf?guest=true

and this:

http://hostort/alfresco/s/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/nodeid/yourfilename

but it still asks to login.

I also tried using webscripts but it asks to login to access to the repository too.

thanks,

Re: Public sharing in Alfresco Share. Direct-linking?

david_ad — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:59:47 GMT

Hello,

Finally I resolved this problem installing Alfresco Web Quick Start, with this module you can generate public links like:

http://host:port/wcmqs/asset/node-id/file_name

The problem is it works with any document in the repository, and I think it could be a security hole.