Alfresco Blog

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...

Alfresco Community 4.2.c

The latest Alfresco Community 4.2 release is out! Here's some information on what improved features you can expect since the last release.LightThemeThe latest Share user interface theme to be added to Alfresco and a preview of the newer more modern l...

Media Previews is dead, long live Media Viewers

A while ago I wrote about the newly-extensible Document Preview component in Alfresco Share and how you can use it to customize the out-of-the-box viewers and add your own custom implementations.I mentioned at the end of that post that there were som...