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Surf Support for LESS CSS Pre-Processing

by Dave DraperIntroductionAt Summit 2013 I briefly mentioned that Surf provided support for simple CSS token substitution via the Surf Theme XML files. We've since integrated LESS for Java directly into Surf to allow dynamic LESS pre-processing to be...

Technical Overview of the Alfresco / Jive Toolkit

Recently I transitioned from my long-standing role leading Alfresco's Professional Services team to being the in-house technologist for the Business Development team, and one of my first tasks in the new role has been to work on an integration betwee...

Alfresco Share (Talk)

Darulez 14:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)hello, I try to follow those quick notes in order to update my theme, but this is really not clear. Do you plan to give us more information on how to change the theme.Default ThemeThe information is completely inc...

How To Add Content To An Alfresco Share Page

IntroductionThis is the first in a series of blogs that is going to describe some of the new extensibility features that are now available in the latest Alfresco Community source code and will later appear in Alfresco Enterprise 4.0.A complaint that ...

Using Apache to load balance and clustering Alfresco Share with Hazelcast

This post assumes reasonable sys-admin Alfresco knowledge and assumes you are already familiar with setting up the Alfresco Repository in a cluster configuration and familiar configuring an Apache web-server instance. You should read the previous pos...

Fixing Object Identity in CMIS - Some Proposed Solutions

As mentioned in my last post, the CMIS TC has been working on the issue of version-independent object identity, and that work is being tracked as CMIS-731. At this point there are 2 basic proposals floating around (each with a number of variants), a...

Alfresco Community 4.2.d

I am very happy to announce another Alfresco Community release is planned for next week! This will be the Alfresco Community 4.2.d release and is based on the very latest 4.2 community code-line.Here are some of the exciting new features and improvem...

Metadata Embedding

What is Metadata Embedding?Extraction of metadata from binary files is a critical task for enterprise content and digital asset management systems. The information contained in those files can aid in searching, workflows, and user interface visualiza...

cmis:objectId - A Case of Mistaken Identity

It's ok to store cmisbjectId's in my CMIS client application, right?Ah such a simple question, yet hiding a plethora of probable pitfalls!Over the last couple of years I've encountered (and held myself!) the misconception that cmisbjectId's are basic...

Unit Testing Aikau

IntroductionIn my last blog post I revealed that 'Aikau' was the project name for the updates we've been making to our approach to developing Alfresco Share and I briefly mentioned that we had been working with Intern.io to develop a unit test framew...

HAProxy for Alfresco

Since this post was published there has been a HAProxy 1.5(.x) release version, so this post is now out of date.An updated post with the changes relevant to HAProxy 1.5 can be are here: https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/devops/?p=8----------------------...

Customizing Alfresco Share JavaScript Controllers

IntroductionIn the last blog I introduced extension module 'customizations' and demonstrated how they could be used to override an i18n properties file to change the label on the User Dashboard. In this post I'm going to be demonstrating how to chang...

Share Widget Framework Roundup from Alfresco Summit 2013

by Dave DraperIntroductionOver the last couple of weeks I've presented a couple of sessions at the Alfresco Summit conferences in Barcelona and Boston. The purpose of these sessions were to socialise the new framework that we're going to be taking fo...

CMIS Query Language (Talk)

The comment that there can only be one CONTAINS() predicate even with cmis-strict appears to be invalid with 4.1.3 and I assume newer versions of Alfresco.

Customizing Alfresco Share FreeMarker Templates

IntroductionIn the previous two blog posts I've introduced extension module customizations for i18n properties files and JavaScript controllers. In this post I'm going to describe how Spring Surf has been updated to allow FreeMarker templates to be c...

Advanced Share Customization (part 1)

IntroductionAt DevCon in San Diego last week I got asked a number of times how possible it would be to either radically customize Share or add entirely new pages to it. I got the opportunity to demonstrate how easy this was and realised that it would...

WebScript JavaScript Controller Extensions Recap

IntroductionFollowing discussions with various Alfresco Community members over recent weeks I've realised that there is possibly a lack of understanding about the relationship between the controller and template in a WebScript related to when JavaScr...

What's new in RM 2.1?  (Part 3)

Unfiled RecordsRM 2.1 makes record capture very easy, but we haven't discussed where these captured records go or how the records management team deals with them.To understand this lets take a look at the file plan. Those of you who are already acqua...

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 ...

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