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Engineering Brown Bag - Unknown Error Occurred - 20 UI Writing Tips For Developers

Andy Healey presents a Brown Bag entitled "Unknown Error Occurred - 20 UI writing tips for developers". Everyone likes software that's easy to use. Unclear instructions annoy us.

Community Coding Standards

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comDevelopingCommunityTable of Contents1 Scope2 Project Standards3 Best Practices and Examples4 IDE Specific Instructions4.1 EclipseScopeAlfresco does not mandate coding...

Live API Explorer updated to ACS 5.2.1

Edit: please now refer to https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2017/11/22/live-api-explorer-updated-to-acs-522 Hi,Just a short post to announce that the "live sandbox" (*) of the Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer has been upgra...

Live API Explorer updated to ACS 5.2.2

Hi, Just a short post to announce that the "live sandbox" (*) of the Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer has been upgraded to Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 5.2.2. This means you can now explore and "try out" in a shared playground (*) the n...

Records Management Community 2.6.c

As promised in our last release post, RM 2.6.c follows hot on the heels of 2.6.b. RM 2.6.c is compatible with Alfresco Platform 5.2.g and Share 5.2.f.What's in 2.6.c?Due to the short period and a focus on enterprise features, there isn't a huge amou...

Alfresco Java Client SDK - Usage Part 2 - Navigation

Following the Alfresco Java Client SDK introduction in my last post it's now time to dive in and start using the SDK. We will follow Gavin Cornwell https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2016/10/17/v1-rest-api-part-2-navigation examples a...

Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA file list

Alfresco Community 201711 EA is available for Windows x86_64 bit and Linux x86_64 bit. For further information, refer to the release notes:Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA Release Notes ‌Complete Installation 64-bit Windows Installer (aft...

Benchmark Testing with Alfresco

Benchmark FrameworkThe set up and configuration of specific tests will be covered in detail but deployment and and environment setup details can be found in page Benchmark Framework 2.0.The benchmark lab configuration can be found on the internal Wik...

Aikau - Using the AlfDocumentPreview Widget

IntroductionThis afternoon I saw a Tweet asking if there were any examples of how to use the AlfDocumentPreview widget. Aikau documentation is currently very thin on the ground (as you're probably no doubt painfully aware) so I thought it would be w...

Moving from SMB to WebDAV

This long blog post explains how we are determining the future of shared network drive support in Alfresco Content Services. Specifically, we are considering dropping support for using the SMB protocol and instead increasing our investment in WebDAV ...

A day in the life of a Quickstarter!

*Alfresco Content Services (ACS) is no longer using AWS Quick Start for deployments on AWS. We recommend Amazon EKS as the new reference deployment for ACS on AWS - read the following blog post from our Product Manager Harry Peek to learn more: https...

Running Benchmark Applications: Alfresco Data Load

Table of Contents1 What it Does2 Prerequisites3 Deploying3.1 Local Deployment3.2 Remote Deployment4 Create and Start a Test Run5 Handling failures6 Extra InformationWhat it Does Create Alfresco sites, create site members, load site document libraries...

Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA

Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA ReleaseRelease NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201711 EA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the first Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Cont...

Basic Content Reporting using the 5.2.1 Search API

IntroductionAlfresco Search Services 1.1.0 and Alfresco Content Services 5.2.1 added more support for query aggregation. ACS 5.2 included facet fields and facet queries. ACS 5.2.1 addstatsRangesIntervalsPivotsPivots with stats or rangesThese break do...

Rekognising out-of-process extensions

Event streams are becoming common place, they allow external applications to "listen" to what's happening within the server. AWS make use of this pattern in several of their services, S3 and DynamoDB being two examples.This is a capability we are con...

Records Management Community 2.6.b

Hi Guys, The newest version of Community RM is available. You can download 2.6.b here. This release provides support for the Alfresco Community Edition 201707 GA Release. In this release:We have extended the REST API mentioned by Ana in her post back...

Index Sharding

IntroductionAt some point, depending on your use case, a SOLR index reaches some maximum size. This could be related to any number of metrics, for example: the total document count, metadata index rate, content index rate, index size on disk, memory ...

Alfresco Search Services 1.1.0

Search Services 1.1.0 is now available, here's a summary of what's changed. As ever, please let me know if you have any questions or you would like to give us any feedback.New Search REST API FeaturesWe have added support for new features in the sear...