Prototype: Alfresco Web Scripts + extjs ajax lib

[jpfi]

Hi,

Along with a colleague I played around with Web Scripts and extjs (a fabulous ajax lib).
After a couple of days we've finished a first prototype of a ajax-based Alfresco repository browser - we named it opsoro.

feature overview:
- ria-feeling (sortable & movable columns, view/hide components, async loading…)
- live Search (search as you type)
- folder browser
- category browser
- tag cloud browser
- My Alfresco portal (draggable portlets)
- document tagging
- embedded preview (crop content & image preview)
- inline view (text, pdf, images … IE only: ms office et. al.)

You find a flash screemcam here: http://opensource-ecm.com/opsoro/opsoro.html

This Web Script API is truly first-rate! It is impressive to find out how easy  and rapid to develop things can be;-)

[psanjuanmelende]

Hi Jan,

I have installed Alfresco since two weeks ago and now I´m trying to install your opsoro forge project which I consider is a great alfresco interface, very useful interface.
The problem I have, due to my lack of knowledge in web programming, is that I´m not able to install Webscripts as you indicate in this forum ("Extract the WebScript and install them: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Step_2:_Storing_a_Web_Script"). I have only copied webscripts files into webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\bootstrap\webscripts folder… I don´t know what is the procedure to install these webscripts…

When I open Opsoro Alfresco Client, no data appear neither in folder browsing nor category browsing… I think this occurs because I haven´t installed webscripts correctly.

Could you help me?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my ignorance…
Pablo San Juan.

[jmpe]

Jan,

Thank you for sharing this work with the community. I am very interested an ExtJS front-end to Alfresco.

Trying to open the client for the first time I am getting the following error in Firebug. Any suggestions you might have would been very appreciated.

[Exception… "Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open' when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location:"<unknown>"data:no]

I put the opsoro_AMP.amp in the alfresco/amp directory and ran the apply_amps.bat from the command line.
I expanded the opsoro_WebApp.zip in tomcat/webapps/opsoro directory.
I put the webscripts in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/opsoro

Thanks,

John

[jpfi]

Hi John,
this sounds like your opsoro client is trying a cross-domain XML-request.
in webapps/opsoro is a config.js file. You have to specify your host there (default: var ROOT_URL = 'http://localhost:8080'. For the moment opsoro isn't cross domain ready, so this should be the same host like your alfresco webapp where opsoro runs as a sibling webapp.
Cheers, Jan

[jpfi]

Hi Pablo San Juan,
if you list your webscripts via alfresco/service/package/ you should see an opsoro package if your webscripts are registered properly.
Cheers,
Jan

Hi Jan,

I have installed Alfresco since two weeks ago and now I´m trying to install your opsoro forge project which I consider is a great alfresco interface, very useful interface.
The problem I have, due to my lack of knowledge in web programming, is that I´m not able to install Webscripts as you indicate in this forum ("Extract the WebScript and install them: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Step_2:_Storing_a_Web_Script"). I have only copied webscripts files into webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\bootstrap\webscripts folder… I don´t know what is the procedure to install these webscripts…

When I open Opsoro Alfresco Client, no data appear neither in folder browsing nor category browsing… I think this occurs because I haven´t installed webscripts correctly.

Could you help me?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my ignorance…
Pablo San Juan.

[psanjuanmelende]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for the answer… Opsoro Alfresco Client is appearing properly, but no data are neither in Folder Browsing nor in Category Browsing… What folder have I to put opsoro webscripts in? And then, when you restart Alfresco, are opsoro webscripts automatically registered? Sorry for the insistence in this subject, but I have doubts about if opsoro webscripts are working properly…

I have NTLM Passthru authentication activated. May be it a problem?

Thanks.
Pablo.

[jpfi]

Hi Pablo,
opsoro consists of two parts. The webinterface and the custom Alfresco webscripts. Opsoro webapp calls these webscripts to retrive JSON-data & display them.
So, please call http://youralfrescohostandport/alfresco/service/package/
You should then see a webpage which list all webscript packages, "opsoro" should be listed there.
But Pablo, opsoro isn't ready for a real life use, it is still more a prototype or an example application whcih shows how to build a custom interface using extjs.
I'm not sure if opsoro is what you're looking for.
Optaros has implemented an opsoro clone called docasu which is more production ready.
Cheers, Jan

[psanjuanmelende]

Thanks Jan…

Sorry and thank you again for your lost time.

Kind Regards,
Pablo

[jmpe]

Hi John,
this sounds like your opsoro client is trying a cross-domain XML-request.
in webapps/opsoro is a config.js file. You have to specify your host there (default: var ROOT_URL = 'http://localhost:8080'. For the moment opsoro isn't cross domain ready, so this should be the same host like your alfresco webapp where opsoro runs as a sibling webapp.
Cheers, Jan

Jan,

Thank you for your reply. You were correct. I had installed opsoro on another machine and was attempting the visit the webpage from my browser. When I attempted to open the page on the host machine it worked fine. I then changed the ROOT_URL to the machine name vice localhost as you suggested and I can now access the page from my machine.

Thank you again for sharing this work and for continuing to reply to this thread.

Kind regards,

John

[luisg]

Hi there…
I'm new at Alfresco and Opsoro.
I've been trying to install opsoro but there's something I dont know how to do.
I unzip the opsoro.zip file, install the AMP file using Alfresco Module Manager and unzip the opsoro_WebApp.zip file in <Alfresco_dir>\tomcat\webapps;
Then, I unzip the opsoro_WebScripts.zip file. This file contains:
- An 'opsoro' folder;
- Another opsoro_AMP.amp file
- And a opsoro_WebApp.zip file
The thing is, I dont know what to do with this files!
I tryed to copy all the filme in opsoro folder to <Alfresco_dir>\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\bootstrap\webscripts, but when I access to http://myalfrescohostandport/alfresco/service/package/ I can see that the webscript is not workin…

Can you help me?

Thanks

[jpfi]

hi,
try to move webscripts to tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts
cheers, jan