topic UI Integration in Alfresco Archive

UI Integration

kapilavasthi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:03:20 GMT

Hi Friends, I am using Alfresco in my Content management project, now If i want to make a simple UI page from where a user can enter some of his details & can upload some files after that I am redirecting this page to the success page where I am giving a success msg that all files a

Re: UI Integration

pmonks — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:24:26 GMT

Web scripts (possibly a dashlet web script that can be integrated into a user's "My Alfresco" page) are likely to be the best way to do this kind of thing. That being said it does depend somewhat on your specific requirements (does this UI need to be integrated into the Alfresco web client UI, is it part of an external application, etc. etc.).

Re: UI Integration

mikef — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:46:23 GMT

There's an example Web Script on the wiki that does almost exactly what you describe. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts_Examples#File_Upload for details.

General information on Web Scripts is available here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts

Re: UI Integration

davidturner90 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:58:59 GMT

How about unpacking a zip file? Would this require a Java command processor rather than a simple web script solution?

Re: UI Integration

pmonks — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:30:35 GMT

Web Scripts can be implemented in Java (instead of or in addition to Javascript + Freemarker), so they're still an appropriate solution - see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Java-backed_Web_Scripts for more details. Another option (if you prefer doing the bulk of development work in Javascript) is to call native Java APIs (java.util.zip specifically) directly - this is described at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#Native_Java_API_Access.

Either way, you'd still use a Web Script to do this.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: UI Integration

davidturner90 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:21:16 GMT

Thanks for the reply Peter.

I'm favouring the first approach of having a Java backed web script - as I would prefer to handle my customisation in Java code and keep the JavaScript as light as possible.

What's your experience with this - what is the preferred approach?