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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This blog is somewhat out of date - the new framework became Aikau and the JSDoc can be found here.IntroductionAny new framework is going to live and die by the strength of it's documentation,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 ...

Media Viewers 2.6 Released

Hot on the heels of the Alfresco Enterprise 4.2 release this week, the Share Extras team have been busy pushing out an updated version of the Media Viewers add-on, which provides support for viewing documents, audio, video and code directly within th...

Spring Surf Development #2 - Secure your Spring WebScript REST API

..In the previous blog post we added a WebScript that listed the different safaris offered by the Safari company. Definitively no company secret in other words. But what if we want to add a WebScript that lists internal company information in a manag...

Whats New in RM 2.1? (Part 2)

Automated Record DeclarationCollecting records within an Enterprise can be a challenging problem for a records management team.  They often have to rely on users understanding the details of their records management policy and how that applies to the...

What's new in RM 2.1? (Part 1)

In-Place Record DeclarationIn Alfresco Records Management Module v2.1 it is possible to declare any document as a record from within a share collaboration site.  The advantages of declaring records in-place include: The content authoring environment ...

Follow-up: Homebrew and Thumbnails on OS X

This post is a quick follow-up to my original article Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X.Some additions to the imagemagick-transform.properties file were introduced as a bug-fix to 4.1.6 Enterprise Edition and subsequently 4.2.d Communit...

Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X

As part of some recent testing for Alfresco Mobile 1.4 (1.4.1 is currently being reviewed by Apple), I noticed that my thumbnails and document previews had stopped working. All this probably coincided with an upgrade to OS X 10.8.2, JDK 7 and/or the ...

Real-time Social Collaboration In Alfresco

The Social Collaboration HypeWikipedia defines Social Collaboration as: '(it) refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the Internet, where...

Alfresco Parents and Children

This post won’t tell you much new if you are already experienced in Alfresco but even then you might found something curious somewhere. So be warned that the audience for this post is mostly the Alfresco newbie that just started playing with this gre...

Enterprise Edition (Talk)

I18N (Talk)

Is there a way to internationalise spaces names ?The need is to share spaces amongst users of different languages.So, I would like to use a bundle reference as a name, say 'myBundle.DRAFTS_SPACE' that would translate according to definitions in the b...

Dynamic Share Configuration Through Extension Modules

Whilst preparing for a Tech Talk Live presentation on customizing Alfresco Share I realised that there was another extensibility capability that I’d not actually blogged about. This was a feature that had been requested internally and will be availab...