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Auto-Readme Extension Example

IntroductionIn my earlier blogs describing the new extensibility features my samples have not been particularly practical. Earlier this week I was asked how to extend the Document Library for a site to automatically display the content of any 'readme...

Alfresco Repository Admin Console

A powerful new feature in Alfresco Enterprise 4.2 is the addition of a user friendly Repository Administration Console. This post describes some of the features present in the console and how it can be easily extended.IntroductionIt is common knowled...

Alfresco Authentication Subsystems (Talk)

I guess, on community version 3.2, advanced ldap configuration don't work as explained. I had to include ldap parameters on alfresco-global-propertiesSufficient words about 'client domain'?I miss at least a word or two about a restriction in processi...

Speeding up Alfresco part 1

What?This blog post is about speeding up the delivery of content from Alfresco.The example I'll discuss here might not make any noticeable difference to the end user, more that it will free up resource on the Alfresco server so it can get on with the...

Introducing the CSRFPolicy in Alfresco Share

A few weeks back we added a CSRF filter to Share. It is now available on Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.4 and also to the Community on HEAD.This blog post will be about how the new filter affects your current Alfresco Share installation or your custom Share...

Moving Alfresco build to Maven

Well, this was a long journey, but we are finally getting there! As was already announced, Alfresco Community is now built with Maven, and so will the next version of Alfresco One. We thought we would tell you a bit more about it.Achievements unlocke...

Debugging Updates in Alfresco Share 4.2

by Dave DraperIntroductionIt seems like quite a while ago that I asked the Community for suggestions for topics to blog about around Alfresco Share and even went to the trouble of raising a JIRA issue for community members to add their ideas to. It's...

Content Store Configuration (Talk)

Needs Work: Engineering says 'The section about 'Eager Content Cleaner' is incorrect and should be removed.' I am not sure what specifically is wrong with it. Resplin (talk) 17:11, 15 July 2014 (BST)

WebScript Extensibility on the Alfresco Repository

This no longer works in the most recent releases of Alfresco but an issue has been raised to restore itIntroductionThe WebScript libraries can be used independently of Surf and this is what the Alfresco Repository uses to provide its REST API. The Su...

Introducing the Alfresco Java Content Repository API (Talk)

Some installation notes would be useful, like where to put the jar/war/xml files when you plan to use the JCR api from another place than from within the alfresco UI.

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...

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