topic Advanced customizations UI;Explorer vs Share vs external app in Alfresco Archive

Advanced customizations UI;Explorer vs Share vs external app

michalwrobel — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:34:36 GMT

Hope this is appropriate forum part for this post, because it doesn't concern any particular part of Alfresco.We're currently investigating possibility of creating a mid-complicated web app. It involves a simple workflow (not 'simple' in terms of alfresco developemnt but rather not complicated). Th

Re: Advanced customizations UI;Explorer vs Share vs external app

smicyk — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:47:40 GMT

Hi,

in general it is easier to change something in Share, also it has much more customization options. Moreover, Alfresco Explorer will not be develop anymore. I think you should start to customize Share and get used to webscript API. If Share is not enough you can always change the user interface, not the API itself.

smicyk

Re: Advanced customizations UI;Explorer vs Share vs external app

mrogers — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:56:49 GMT

To answer your question, yes alfresco is suitable for customisation.

However you need to do some analysis to see which if any of the existing user interfaces suit. And just to complicate the picture even more 😎 a fourth option is to use one of the other user interfaces for Alfresco, your choice is wider than just Explorer or Share.

Edit : You may like to look at this Blog entry from Jeff Potts. http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2009/04/20/971