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Getting started with functional unit testing of Aikau

IntroductionWith the Aikau framework for Share construction we have created a large number of widgets with some underlying code from Dojo’s UI Library, Dijit. It makes sense to automatically test the Aikau widgets in isolation and therefore we have c...

Aikau - Updates to Dynamic Visibility Config

IntroductionIn this previous blog post I introduced the concept of dynamic visibility rules in Aikau page models. In the course of working on some prototype pages for features pencilled in for Alfresco 5.1 I realised that there were a few useful capa...

Further options for functional unit testing of Aikau

This post follows on from the getting started post which you should run through first. It includes some free software that you may need to install before you can proceed.IntroductionEarlier I introduced the basic functionality of the testing framewor...

Aikau Mini Examples - Data List (part 1)

IntroductionThis is one post in a series of short examples of things that can be done using the Aikau framework. The series is not intended to provide complete documentation but simply to show how to solve frequently encountered problems, implement r...

Introducing Aikau

IntroductionFor some time now I've been writing blog posts that refer to the 'updated UI framework' describing a new approach that we've been working on for further developing Alfresco Share. This is a fairly ambiguous (as well as lengthy) term to us...

Aikau Development Process Example - Inline Comment Rendering

IntroductionI've previously provided a few examples and techniques of how to implement a variety of use cases using Aikau, but now I'd like to provide an example of the process I follow to implement a solution. Whilst this process might not be suitab...

SA-6

Security Advisory 6Date: 2014-03-13Alfresco's internal security testing revealed a number of security issues. We have no evidence that these are being exploited in the wild, but we recommend users upgrade to the latest releases of Alfresco, such as C...

Advanced Share Customization (part 2)

IntroductionIn the first part of this tutorial I demonstrated how you could add a new page to Alfresco Share and have it protected by the standard authentication mechanism. I also showed how you can make that new page the landing page for your Alfres...

How to add AMD Packages to Share via Extension Modules

IntroductionA comment on a previous post questioned why it was necessary to update the 'surf.xml' configuration file in order to declare a new AMD package. This was an obvious requirement that I had completely overlooked and have now implemented a si...

Aikau Mini Examples - Dynamic Visibility