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Alfresco Java Client SDK

IntroductionAlfresco has recently focused a lot of time and energy to develop and strengthen its Public API. Gavin Cornwell‌ talked a lot about it in his series of blog post https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2016/10/11/v1-rest-api-par...

RM Pull Request Process

Alfresco Records Management is now able to accept Pull Requests to our GitHub project. Following the success that Dave Draper and the Aikau project has had in receiving community contributions, the RM team was keen to get the process sorted out to en...

v1 REST API - Part 1 - Introduction

Alfresco has had a REST API for a long time but it organically grew over time as new services and capabilities were added. There were no guidelines defined which culminated in an inconsistent hard to use API.This journey was covered in a Tech Talk Li...

Community file list 201606-EA

Alfresco Community 201606 Early Access is available for Windows 32 bit, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and Mac OS X.For further information, refer to the Release Notes.Table of Contents1 Complete Installation2 Maven repository3 Individual Components a...

Extending Aikau Widgets

IntroductionI'm very keen to understand the pain points of using Aikau for customizing Alfresco Share and for creating standalone clients. I recently got some very valuable feedback from an Alfresco Community member suggesting that one area that I co...

CMIS support in LibreOffice Experimental Features

Since I upgraded the LibreOffice installation on my Macbook to version 3.6, I've been playing around with the CMIS integration built into this version. This is currently an experimental LibreOffice feature, which means you should not use this against...

An Alfresco Welcome to Francesco Corti

I super excited to welcome Francesco Corti to the Alfresco team as our new Product Evangelist!Many of you probably know Francesco from his participation in the Alfresco Community, Order of The Bee and his excellent work on AAAR.Francesco is no strang...

Custom document list page (browse) and document expire alert

Hi,I'm new on Alfresco development. I just start and can create custom content model (aspects, properties) and create simple custom workflow (guide from Jeff Potts blog).And now I want to steap ahead with new requirements on how to create custom docu...

v1 REST APIs with Aikau

My colleague Gavin Cornwell has started writing a series of blog posts on how to make use of the v1 REST APIs that will be available in the next release of Alfresco. PLEASE NOTE: If you want to test out the example in this post then you'll need to f...

Introduction to Integrations

Platform integrations are external additions to the Alfresco Platform. These are generally clients that leverage the Alfresco platform and they include mobile clients, remote services and client applications. The reasons why you would decide to devel...

Aikau 1.0.91 - Improved validation handling

IntroductionForm controls in Aikau have always provided a rich and extensible way of validating the data that the user has provided. The fields in a form communicate over the publication/subscription layer to keep track of each others state and the ...

Aikau 1.0.91 - AutoSetConfig Updates

In Aikau 1.0.91 you'll find that there is an update to the autoSetConfig that could be applied to any form control. The ability to automatically set form control values based on changes to the value of other fields has always been present in Aikau, h...

Inline Advanced Search

IntroductionIn a previous blog post I showed how Aikau was beginning to provide support for the XML-based Forms Runtime that Share uses to render forms using the old YUI2 controls. I then wrote additional blogs showing how it could be used to build A...

Alfresco Mobile for Android : Server Side Configuration

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comAndroidConfigurationTable of Contents1 Disclaimer2 Summary2.1 Prerequisites3 Installation4 Alfresco MobileDisclaimerThis feature is a PREVIEW & NON SUPPORTED feature ...

Project Overview: Alfresco in the Cloud

Purpose and ScopeAlfresco in the Cloud is a hosted multi-tenant edition of the Alfresco ECM platform. It consists of the Alfresco Share collaboration interface, and developers can also access the platform through the public REST APis.The service is o...

How to Contribute

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Alfresco project.There are several areas in which you can provide assistance:User SupportEven the most experienced Alfresco developers were new once, and chances are someone has helped you at some po...

New add-on for displaying and managing announcements in Share

I wrote a simple little add-on that others may find useful. It allows administrators to manage announcements in an Announcements folder in the Data Dictionary. Then it displays those announcements on the Alfresco Share login page and in a dashlet.I w...

Using vue.js with Aikau

IntroductionIn the recent State of JavaScript 2016 survey results I noticed that vue.js was gaining massively in popularity as a front-end framework so I thought it might be an interesting experiment to see how easily it could be leveraged within Aik...

Project Overview: Share

Purpose and ScopeAlfresco Share is the primary user interface for Alfresco Content Services and Alfresco Community Edition. Focused on collaboration use cases, Share makes it easy to work on content organized in sites. Though Share can be customized ...

Alfresco Community Edition 201609 EA Release Notes

Alfresco Community Edition 201609 EA ReleaseThese release notes provide information for the 201609 Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition.Early access releases are intended for interested parties to test new features, provide feedback, an...

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