External invitation : template invite-email.ftl

[jayjayecl]

Hi all,

I'm trying to customize the invitation message that is sent to external users with Share.
I checked-out the sources of Share (projects/slingshot), and have then 2 problems :
- I cannot find any reference, in Share source Code, to the template invite-email.ftl that is located in the data dictionnary (nor to the processing of email sending). I could not also find this reference in the xml config files of Share. Then, where is it ?
- Is there any documentation of Share code structure ?
I mean, in my Eclipse, the Share project is a bit confusing. For example, what is the difference between :
config
    /alfresco
          /site-webscripts

AND
source
    /web
         /components

??

Thank you all for your help

[jayjayecl]

all right I found the reference to the template.
It is in the Workflow definitions in Alfresco Webapp. I was surprised of that.

Well, still, if anyone can explain to me the structure of Share source code, I'd be glad to see it.
Please notice that I know a bit about REST / Webscripts since I developed some myself running custom specific actions.

Thank you

[mikeh]

all right I found the reference to the template.
It is in the Workflow definitions in Alfresco Webapp. I was surprised of that.

It's because invite is implemented as workflow - i.e. all handled within the Repository.

Regarding the code structure, simply put: config is for webscripts and other server-side code (as is source/java). Anything in source/web is directly addressable by a browser and is client-side code or assets such as images, Flash, etc.

Mike

[jayjayecl]

Thank you Mike.
I'll try to have a deeper look into it

[jayjayecl]

Another question. I faced some strange behaviour.
Please see this use case :
1/ I have a fresh untouched Alfresco. I go to Share, create a site and invite an external member. Everything goes okay.
2/ I Stop Alfresco. I go to classes/alfresco/workflow and edit invite_processDefinition.xml : I just erase all the script code in the start-state. I save the file.
3/ I run Alfresco again. I go into Share, and invites someone external successfully. It's like the script ran ok.
It does not happen when I erase all data (alf_data)

Is this file really re-read each time Alfresco is launched. Or does a copy / print of this file (somewhere in alf_data) is then kept and, no matter what you do with the original file in alfresco/workflow, it will not be applied ?

[mrogers]

The workflow is stored within the database.

If you want to update a workflow you need to increment its version number.

[jayjayecl]

thank you !
My next question will surely appears to be dumb, but how can you do that ?

thanks again

[jayjayecl]

please, anyone form my last (and probably easy for you) question ?

Thank you

[jayjayecl]

A clue is still needed here please.

Best regards,

[mrogers]

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WorkflowAdministration

During development you may set the "redeploy" flag to true which will increment the workflow version number each time alfresco is restarted.

(Please note this config is taken from work in progress for 3.2 so won't match exactly)

In the workflowBootstrap section of bootstrap=context.xml
            <props>
               <prop key="engineId">jbpm</prop>
               <prop key="location">alfresco/workflow/invitation-nominated_processdefinition.xml</prop>
               <prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
               <prop key="redeploy">true</prop>
            </props>