create spaces on deploy

[tim-erwin]

Hi everybody,

we would like to install Alfresco pre-configured, meaning that we change the configuration of Alfresco before installing it. Specifically, we configure the CIFS service to offer a share for a space that does not exist in Alfresco during standard setup. Hence, during first startup (when the setup/bootstrap happens) the CIFS service will fail, because it cannot find the space it should expose as a share. Then we create the space manually and have to restart Alfresco in order for the CIFS service to start up properly.

Is there a way to tell Alfresco to create spaces other than the default during bootstrap?

Regards,
Tim

[mrogers]

You can add your own "bootstrap" to initialise your own data.      You will find there are already a few examples where alfresco itself initialises data.   For example bootstraping the content models and the workflows.

Another approach is to run a piece of java code on start up of alfresco.