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Default memory allocation issue in Alfresco CE 201707 GA (aka 5.2)

Important notice for every Alfresco Community server using default installerIf you are using Alfresco 201707 GA and you used default installer (provided by BitRock), your Tomcat is using only 1 GB for your web applications (alfresco.war, share.war & ...

How to deploy ACS 6 Community in real envs using official Docker Compose

Alfresco is delivering a Docker Compose for ACS Community deployment that can only be used for local testing environments:acs-community-deployment/docker-compose at master · Alfresco/acs-community-deployment · GitHub In order to deploy the product in...

Submitting Contributions

The maturity of Alfresco products comes from the contributions of the open source community. Contributing back to Alfresco can be a bit confusing as Alfresco products are a collection of separate open source projects. Each open source project officia...

PDF rendering engine performance and fidelity comparison

A while ago, Alfresco decided to replace the Ghostscript engine in our products. It has been used as a rasteriser to transform PDF files to PNG images within Alfresco Content Services (ACS). The main cause was due to Ghostscript’s change to an AGPL l...

Anatomy of an ACS 6 AMP project

At first, I want to highlight that an AMP module is not the recommended way to extend or develop against ACS 6. Instead, you should build a (micro-)service that sits next to the repository and use the v1 REST API to talk to the repository.However, th...

Alfresco Community Edition 201803 EA

Alfresco Community Edition 201803 EA ReleaseRelease NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201803 EA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the fourth Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Con...

AGS Benchmark Driver Documentation

This is documentation for the AGS/RM benchmark driver. The code can be found here: records-management/rm-benchmark at master · Alfresco/records-management · GitHub and it builds upon the .After running the system for the first time, we should see s...

Alfresco Community Edition 201707 GA Release Notes

Alfresco Community Edition 201707 GA Release NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201707 GA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the next Generally Available release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Conte...

Alfresco Community Edition 201707 GA file list

Alfresco Community 201707 is available for Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and Mac OS X. For further information, refer to the release notes:Alfresco Community Edition 201707 GA Release Notes ‌Complete Installation 64-bit Windows Installer (after...

Alfresco Community Edition 201804 EA file list

For further information, refer to the release notes:Alfresco Community Edition 201804 EA Release Notes Maven repository Alfresco Community 201804 EA artifacts are available in our Maven repository under the versions.6.0.5-ea for Alfresco Platf...

Workflow with Activiti

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comWorkflowBack to Workflow.Table of Contents1 Introduction1.1 What is Activiti?1.2 What is BPMN 2.0?2 Working with workflows3 Creating and managing workflows3.1 Creatin...

Alfresco Community Edition 201804 EA

Alfresco Community Edition 201804 EA ReleaseRelease NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201804 EA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the fifth Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Cont...

How to Create an Aikau Dashlet for Share

BackgroundThere have been a few questions on the discussions pages and on StackOverflow about how to create Share Dashlets using Aikau. This blog post aims to take you through the process required using a use case mentioned in this previous post.Each...

Rename a folder/File

Web script to rename a folder or a file in alfresco:Arguments to script: alfresco ID(dir) and New name(rename_to) of the folder/fileCreate 3 files in Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/changeName.get.desc.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><webscript...

Alfresco Community Edition 201803 EA file list

For further information, refer to the release notes:Alfresco Community Edition 201803 EA Release Notes Maven repository Alfresco Community 201802 EA artifacts are available in our Maven repository under the versions.6.0.4-ea for Alfresco Platf...

Text 101

This blog is intended to describe Alfresco Content Service's support for indexing and querying text. There is a little bit about text analysis, how you should and could integrate NLP and some stuff like entity extraction and disambiguation. Mostly, i...

Customizing the Share Header (Part 3)

IntroductionIn the first two posts in this series I've focused on how to add or modify items in the new Alfresco Share header bar and in this post I'm going to focus on how to hide items.This will be demonstrated in two different ways:Using a built-i...

Alfresco Community Edition 201802 EA

Alfresco Community Edition 201802 EA Release Release NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201802 EA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the second Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Co...

Add Custom Action Button Using Javascript

Steps to add a custom button/link in Document Actions and Folder Actions on Document and Folder Leveltep 1: Create a directory scripts in ...\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\Step 2 : cd into ...\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\scrip...

Customizing the Share Header Menu (Part 2)

IntroductionIn my last post I explained the basic differences between the old (4.1) and new (4.2) Share header bars. In this post I'm going to provide a slightly more complex example that demonstrates the following:How to create a custom widget by ex...

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