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Creating an AMP file

eswbitto — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:59:30 GMT

Hello People,I'm really new to creating amp files and I have read the following two links on how to create one. I think I read it like 5 times. It still has gone past my head as far as understanding it. Can anyone help dumb it down for me?http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/AMP_Fileshttp://wiki.alfresco.c

Re: Creating an AMP file

jpotts — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:04:10 GMT

An amp is just a zip that has been renamed to .amp. That means once you find an amp to use as an example you can unzip it using unzip (or look at its contents using unzip -l). The zip follows a convention for a directory structure and includes a file called module.properties that describes the amp. So if you want to create an amp, follow the resources you found to understand what goes in the module.properties file, then create a zip. In your case, the zip would contain a single directory called "lib" and in that you would place the JAR file.

You might be interested in the Google Docs integration amp that can be downloaded from the <a href="https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_file_list_4.2.c">4.2.c file list</a> page.

Jeff

Re: Creating an AMP file

fabrizio90 — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:11:14 GMT

Hi jpotts,

following your instruction, i've created my amp. but everytime i try to install it, the console says "no module.propertis file has been found". but the file is in the amp module

Re: Creating an AMP file

jpotts — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:40:15 GMT

Show me what the output of unzip -l yourAmp.amp is.

Jeff

Re: Creating an AMP file

fabrizio90 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:16:26 GMT

the output:

Archive: /Users/Fabrizio/Desktop/Recovery.amp
Length     Date   Time    Name
——–    —-   —-    —-
        0 09-24-13 16:14   Recovery/
        0 09-24-13 16:13   Recovery/bin/
    15845 09-23-13 11:02   Recovery/bin/reset-password-dialog-2.1.0.jar
      176 09-24-13 16:14   Recovery/module.properties
——–                   ——-
    16021                   4 files

Re: Creating an AMP file

jpotts — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:17:12 GMT

Try moving Recovery/bin/reset-password-dialog-2.1.0.jar to /lib/reset-password-dialog-2.1.0.jar.

Also move Recovery/module.properties to module.properties.

Remove Recovery and Recovery/bin/.

Jeff