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Sample JS Docs for Share Widget Library

This blog is somewhat out of date - the new framework became Aikau and the JSDoc can be found here.IntroductionAny new framework is going to live and die by the strength of it's documentation, so it's important that we try to ensure that we make as m...

Media Viewers 2.5 Released!

If you've been following the recent activity on Share Extras you'll notice that most of the work for the last few weeks has been going into the Media Viewers project and in particular the 'PdfJs' based viewer which it supplies.If you're not familiar ...

Media Viewers 2.6 Released

Hot on the heels of the Alfresco Enterprise 4.2 release this week, the Share Extras team have been busy pushing out an updated version of the Media Viewers add-on, which provides support for viewing documents, audio, video and code directly within th...

Spring Surf Development #2 - Secure your Spring WebScript REST API

..In the previous blog post we added a WebScript that listed the different safaris offered by the Safari company. Definitively no company secret in other words. But what if we want to add a WebScript that lists internal company information in a manag...

Whats New in RM 2.1? (Part 2)

Automated Record DeclarationCollecting records within an Enterprise can be a challenging problem for a records management team. They often have to rely on users understanding the details of their records management policy and how that applies to the...

What's new in RM 2.1? (Part 1)

In-Place Record DeclarationIn Alfresco Records Management Module v2.1 it is possible to declare any document as a record from within a share collaboration site. The advantages of declaring records in-place include: The content authoring environment ...

Follow-up: Homebrew and Thumbnails on OS X

This post is a quick follow-up to my original article Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X.Some additions to the imagemagick-transform.properties file were introduced as a bug-fix to 4.1.6 Enterprise Edition and subsequently 4.2.d Communit...

Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X

As part of some recent testing for Alfresco Mobile 1.4 (1.4.1 is currently being reviewed by Apple), I noticed that my thumbnails and document previews had stopped working. All this probably coincided with an upgrade to OS X 10.8.2, JDK 7 and/or the ...

Real-time Social Collaboration In Alfresco

The Social Collaboration HypeWikipedia defines Social Collaboration as: '(it) refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the Internet, where...

Alfresco Parents and Children

This post won’t tell you much new if you are already experienced in Alfresco but even then you might found something curious somewhere. So be warned that the audience for this post is mostly the Alfresco newbie that just started playing with this gre...