How to structure share dashlets that use the repository

patorjk — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:22:50 GMT

I'm building a dashlet that lets users search for folders. It correctly works, but now my aim is to make it a simple package. To learn how to create dashlets, I initially just created the files in the Alfresco source. I ended up having to create an Alfresco web script and a Share web script, since I

Re: How to structure share dashlets that use the repository

patorjk — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:19:47 GMT

In case anyone stumbles across this with the same question, what I ended up doing:

I created a separate workspace for Alfresco modules (currently using Eclipse) and created a "search" webscript that allows for parameters which restrict searching on just folders.

In my Dashlet workspace I left the module mostly as is, but removed the Alfresco web script portion.

Each module has its own build.xml which creates its own jar, and then a separate build script merges them into the correct war file (either alfresco.war or share.war).

I like this approach in that the Alfresco part is reusable in other web scripts, though it feels wrong to have a share webscript that requires on the custom Alfresco one already being installed. It works though. However, I did notice this in the share web script example build.xml:

Assemble the configuration and resource files in a JAR file structure. This mechanism
    was introduced in Alfresco 3.3 and allows Share extensions containing both repository and
    web-tier web scripts, Spring/Surf configuration and static assets to be added to the servlet
    container as a single library.

Which seems to indicate that what I previously wanted to do was possible, though I was unable to get it working.

- Pat

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