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WebScript Extensibility on the Alfresco Repository

This no longer works in the most recent releases of Alfresco but an issue has been raised to restore itIntroductionThe WebScript libraries can be used independently of Surf and this is what the Alfresco Repository uses to provide its REST API. The Su...

Introducing the Alfresco Java Content Repository API (Talk)

Some installation notes would be useful, like where to put the jar/war/xml files when you plan to use the JCR api from another place than from within the alfresco UI.

Surf Support for LESS CSS Pre-Processing

by Dave DraperIntroductionAt Summit 2013 I briefly mentioned that Surf provided support for simple CSS token substitution via the Surf Theme XML files. We've since integrated LESS for Java directly into Surf to allow dynamic LESS pre-processing to be...

Technical Overview of the Alfresco / Jive Toolkit

Recently I transitioned from my long-standing role leading Alfresco's Professional Services team to being the in-house technologist for the Business Development team, and one of my first tasks in the new role has been to work on an integration betwee...

Alfresco Share (Talk)

Darulez 14:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)hello, I try to follow those quick notes in order to update my theme, but this is really not clear. Do you plan to give us more information on how to change the theme.Default ThemeThe information is completely inc...

How To Add Content To An Alfresco Share Page

IntroductionThis is the first in a series of blogs that is going to describe some of the new extensibility features that are now available in the latest Alfresco Community source code and will later appear in Alfresco Enterprise 4.0.A complaint that ...

Using Apache to load balance and clustering Alfresco Share with Hazelcast

This post assumes reasonable sys-admin Alfresco knowledge and assumes you are already familiar with setting up the Alfresco Repository in a cluster configuration and familiar configuring an Apache web-server instance. You should read the previous pos...

Fixing Object Identity in CMIS - Some Proposed Solutions

As mentioned in my last post, the CMIS TC has been working on the issue of version-independent object identity, and that work is being tracked as CMIS-731. At this point there are 2 basic proposals floating around (each with a number of variants), a...

Alfresco Community 4.2.d

I am very happy to announce another Alfresco Community release is planned for next week! This will be the Alfresco Community 4.2.d release and is based on the very latest 4.2 community code-line.Here are some of the exciting new features and improvem...

Metadata Embedding

What is Metadata Embedding?Extraction of metadata from binary files is a critical task for enterprise content and digital asset management systems. The information contained in those files can aid in searching, workflows, and user interface visualiza...