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Custom Login Page when Outside a Kerberos Domain

When accessing Alfresco Content Services (ACS) and Alfresco Community Edition outside of a Kerberos domain, it is necessary to direct the system to a login page when SSO fails. The correct implementation of a fallback login page depends on the specif...

Alfresco Product Naming and Numbering

BackgroundApparently there has been some confusion over the various product names and the version numbering that has been used by Alfresco in the past (see a sample below).[caption id='attachment_62' align='aligncenter' width='500' caption='Alfresco ...

JavaScript API Cookbook

The official developer documentation is at: Developer guide | Alfresco Documentation JavaScript APICookbookThis page is the central page for examples for the JavaScript API.   Feel free to add your examples to this. Example scripts can be found in th...

Security and Authentication

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comAuthenticationAuthentication is carried out/required at several entry points to the repository, for example:Web ScriptsCMISCIFSFTPWebDAVWeb ClientWeb Services (deprec...

How to disable the Sample Site

By default, during its first bootstrap Alfresco Content Services will load a sample site, called "Sample: Web Site Design Project" (swsdp).The easy way to disable loading the sample site and users is to add a property in alfresco-global.properties be...

Alfresco Contribution Agreement

Accepting the Contribution Agreement We appreciate contributions from external developers, but we require all contributors to accept the Alfresco Contribution Agreement so that we have the legal right to include the contribution in our commercial pro...

Records Management Community 2.5.b

It’s been a while since our last release of Community RM, but 2.5.b is now available.What's in 2.5.bThe main driver for this release is compatibility with Alfresco Community 201702 (i.e. Alfresco 5.2.x). This involved some work to integrate with the ...

Transactional Metadata Query (TMDQ)

IntroductionThis blog compares query support provided by transactional metadata query (TMDQ) and the Index Engine. The two differ in a number of respects which are described here. This blog is an evolution of material previously presented at the Alfr...

Localization Considerations

IntroductionIn my second post in this series I showed how to create a page from existing widgets and in my last post I showed how to create a custom widget. In custom widget showed how to specify i18n properties files of different locales in order to...

Explaining Eventual Consistency

IntroductionLast week, eventual consistency cropped up more than usual. What it means, how to understand it and how to deal with it. This is not about the pros and cons of eventual consistency, when you may want transactional behaviour, etc. This pos...

v1 REST API - Part 10 - People

In the last post we looked at the queries and search APIs, today we're going to look at the people API. A couple of the endpoints have been available since 4.2 and we've added a few new ones in the 5.2 release.To keep with tradition this post has a P...

Alfresco SDK 3.0 Beta User Guide

Alfresco SDK 3.0 Beta - User Guide Author: ‌IntroductionAlfresco Maven PluginSupport for different versioning of Platform and Share UIMaven ProfilesFrom AMPs to JARsFrom Spring Loaded to JRebel or HotSwapThe end of Tomcat Virtual Webapp ContextSuppor...

Creating Aikau Site Pages for Share

IntroductionThe Aikau framework provides a simpler way of creating pages in Share where a page can be declaratively defined as a JSON model in a WebScript. This avoids the necessity to create the XML and FreeMarker files for Surf Pages, Templates and...

Structure, Tags, Categories and Query in the public API

IntroductionAlfresco content services has supported structural queries for a long time. You can find documents by how they are filed in a folder structure, how they are categorised and how they have been tagged. You can add new types of category, add...

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Disable "Did you mean" or "Search instead for" in Alfresco basic search

In Alfresco 5.0.x (may be other versions of Alfresco), if a search term is not found in the Solr index, the basic search provides the result for the closest term that matches in the index. For example, if the search term is "1234567" and if nothing m...

Alfresco Community Edition file list 201704

Alfresco Community 201704 is available for Windows 32 bit, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and Mac OS X. For further information, refer to the release notes: Alfresco Community Edition 201704 GA Release Notes     ‌Complete Installation  64-bit Windows ...

Refreshing UAT environment: pitfalls to avoid

If you are serious about Alfresco in your IT infrastructure you most certainly have a "User Acceptance Tests" environment. If you don't... you really should consider setting one up (don't make Common mistakes)!When you initially set up your environme...

Alfresco Community Edition 201704 GA Release Notes

Alfresco Community Edition 201704 GA Release NotesThese release notes provide information for the 201704 GA release of Alfresco Community Edition.This is the next Generally Available release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Conte...

Getting the original path of document that is deleted from

We are working on a report which lists all the folders and documents deleted by the users of each site in Alfresco. We query the archive store to get the list of nodes that are deleted.  But displayPath on the node returns empty.  In order to get th...