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Creating custom pages and components (ADF 105)

After a detailed overview of the available services and components of the Alfresco Application Development Framework, in this tutorial we are going to see how to create new pages into an existing application. To complete the tutorial, we are going to...

Alfresco Process Services components in action

Before diving deep in the technical topic, let’s start from the beginning, seeing how an APS process works with an existing ADF application. To reach the goal, we are going to use a brand new environment for the next discussions and development. Befo...

About the Alfresco upload component

After discovering the ng2-alfresco-documentlist and the ng2-alfresco-viewer components, in this paragraph we are going to introduce the ng2-alfresco-upload displaying useful tools to upload files and folders into the repository. In this case we won’t...

About the Alfresco search components

After the customisation of the Alfresco repository explorer, the introduction of the document viewer and content uploader, in this paragraph we are going to introduce the search capabilities into the Alfresco content. As we all know, the search capab...

About the Alfresco document viewer

Now that we know how the Alfresco repository explorer works, in this paragraph we are going to introduce the ng2-alfresco-viewer displaying the preview of a document.Looking at the files component stored into the <my-adf>/app/components/files folder,...

Running and using the application

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF getting started tutorials and describes how to run your application for the very first time. Now that your Alfresco ADF application has been created, in this task we are going to see how to run your applicatio...

Installing Alfresco Content Services as ADF service layer

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF getting started tutorials and describes how to install Alfresco ECM as Alfresco ADF service layer. Installing Alfresco ECM as Alfresco ADF service layer is quite similar to a standard installation, except for ...

Customising the Alfresco Process Services bundled widgets

This tutorial is part of the Introduction to the ADF APS components and details how to customise the bundled widgets. As introduced in a previous tutorial, a set of bundled ADF widgets are included in the ng2-activiti-form component. More precisely, ...

Customising task outcomes and flows on ADF

This tutorial is part of the Introduction to the ADF APS components and details how to customise task outcomes and flows on ADF. Now that we know how to control the stencils (bundled and customised) as atomic parts of the forms into an ADF applicatio...

Custom stencils with Alfresco ADF

This tutorial is part of the Introduction to the ADF APS components and details how to manage custom stencils with Alfresco ADF. Now that we know how to create an ADF widget to override an existing APS stencil, let’s see how to face the development ...

Creating the Application with ADF

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF getting started tutorials and describes how to create your Angular 4 application on top of the service layer composed by Alfresco Process Services, Alfresco Content Services or both. In the following sections ...

Color changes to your ADF application

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF basic customizations tutorials and describes how to change the colours of your Alfresco ADF application. Assuming you have an ADF application up and running, called my-adf application and created in the same w...

Changing the behaviour and eventing of your ADF application

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF basic customisations tutorials and describes how to change the behaviour and eventing of your Alfresco ADF application. In this example we are going to modify the custom text introduced above, to better unders...

Anatomy of an ADF application

After the ADF 101 about creating your first Alfresco Application Development Framework application, in this set of tutorials we are going to see how to customise it in layout, behaviours and basic elements (buttons, text, etc.). We would like here to...

Introduction to the ADF Alfresco Process Services components

As you probably know, the Alfresco solution for BPM is based on the Alfresco Process Services Engine. On top of the Alfresco Process Services Engine, the Alfresco ADF defines a framework for developers, based on Angular components. If you want to kno...

The ADF components for Alfresco Content Services

As you probably know, the Alfresco solution for ECM is Open Source, released to encourage its usage and adoption. On top of the Alfresco Engine, the Alfresco ADF defines a framework for developers, based on Angular components. If you want to know mor...

Getting Started with Alfresco Application Development Framework

An updated vesion of the tutorial can be found hereADF 101 - Getting Started with Alfresco Application Development Framework What’s the Application Development Framework?The Alfresco application development framework is based on the Angular 2 JavaScr...

Announcing Alfresco NG2 Components

By bringing together content & process, Alfresco is a unique platform for building solutions and business applications.As a platform company, it is critical for us to ensure that our developer ecosystem is successful and our community, customers, and...

Alfresco Web Component Samples

All the Angular2 based Alfresco web components can be found in the following GitHub project:https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-componentsEach component, such as the datatable, has its own sample that demonstrates the use of it.DatatableDescript...