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Setting up the MySQL database for Alfresco

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comInstallation3.0Labs 3This page describes how to download, install, and set up the MySQL database for use with Alfresco. For information on using other databases, see ...

Unreleased Alfresco Community Edition 201709 EA

Alfresco Community Edition 201709 EA ReleaseImportant Notice: Unreleased ProductWe did not complete this release. It is unavailable.Update: September 23, 2017As can be seen below, the main goal of this release was to exercise the build and test tooli...

Welcome to the Alfresco Content Services Community

If you're interested to learn more about Alfresco Content Services, read our Project Overview: Content Services and review the official documentation. Here are the details on How to Contribute. Ready to jump in? Access the source code. If you have an...

Alfresco Community Edition 5.2

What's new in Alfresco Community Edition 5.2?This page lists the new features added to Alfresco Community Edition during the 5.2 line of releases. Release bundles are named for the month they were generated, and may contain components from different ...

Simple Page Creation in Share

IntroductionThe purpose of this post is to introduce the steps required to add a page to Share using some of the updates outlined in my previous post. Hopefully if you've had previous experience of adding pages to Share you'll see how this approach s...

Introducing Solr 6.3 and Alfresco Search Services

With the release of Alfresco 5.2, some exciting new changes are coming to Alfresco’s search capabilities. This post looks at some of the highlights of the new Alfresco Search Services 1.0, with a brief description of the major enhancements and most r...

Records Management Community 2.6.a

We are happy to announce our latest release of Community RM based on the public community code-line. Community release 2.6.a is now available and provides support for Alfresco Community 201702. In this release we managed to include some exciting new ...

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...

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