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Collaborative Edition on Alfresco using LibreOffice Online

Being able to edit a file concurrently by multiple users is a need we’re coming across more and more when dicussing with customers on the field.At the time of writing, the out-of-the-box solution to deliver this kind of feature within Alfresco is to ...

Activiti Updates, Just in Time for Summer

First of all, we would like to thank Mauricio Salatino (“Salaboy”), for all his fantastic work and commitment to the Activiti open source project. Mauricio has been a great contributor helping us in our mission of building the first truly open source...

Search Codebase Restructure

You may have noticed some changes recently in the SearchServices codebase. Before we go into the details it might be interesting to consider the number of git repositories that we were previously working with:This diagram just shows the projects we ...

Building a Content Management App with ADF 2.0.0

IntroductionIn this article we will look at how you can use the Alfresco Content Services (ACS) related ADF components to build a Content Management application. This could be useful if you are about to start on an ADF trial, you need to build a PoC ...

New OSS challenges ahead

Today I am stepping down as the Activiti Cloud OSS Tech Lead @ Alfresco. We had so much fun with the Activiti Cloud OSS team during this last two years, designing and implementing the first iteration of Activiti Cloud. We (Alfresco and I) have differ...

Upgrading Alfresco without the content binary files (for testing and validating purposes)

This post is going to cover how to upgrade an Alfresco instance without using the data in the content store. This is a useful scenario to quickly validate an upgrade, as it is usually costly to clone the data on large repositories.For instance, imagi...

Activiti Cloud 7.1.0.M1 released!

I am happy to announce the first milestone of Activiti Cloud 7.1.0 release train. For 7.1.0 we are focused on adding more support for BPMN elements and maturing each component to provide more features. We want to make sure that people creating applic...

Alfresco 6.1 in Azure (VM based deployment)

Project Objective(Link to the project in Github)Note: the most up to date information about the project can be found in the github page (link above).In this blog we cover the deployment of ACS (Alfresco Content Services) Enterprise 6.1 on Azure using...

Deploying ACS 6.1 Enterprise on AWS with Packer and Terraform

Project ObjectiveIn this blog we cover the deployment of ACS (Alfresco Content Services) 6.1 Enterprise on AWS. The deployment consists of two mayor steps:Building AWS AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) containing a base installation of ACS 6.1 Enterprise....

Login customizations to your ADF application

This content is part of the Alfresco ADF basic customisations tutorials and describes how to customise the login page of your Alfresco ADF application. The customisation of the login page is very straightforward, thank to the ADF Login component. Bef...

Rest Call Task 101

The easiest way to integrate Alfresco Process Services with other systems is by using REST calls. Alfresco Process Services allows you to make calls as part of a process or to populate form controls, such as a dropdown list of values. I’m going to ta...

Activiti 6 is on the Way

Activiti 6.0 Final release is around the corner, and I’m super excited of being part of this release because it is the first step towards a bright future. I’m looking forward to working with the community to shape up the next releases of the project ...

Activiti 7 Deep Dive Series - Using the Core Libraries

IntroductionActiviti 7 is an evolution of the battle-tested Activiti workflow engine from Alfresco that is fully adopted to run in a cloud environment. It is built according to the Cloud Native application concepts and differs a bit from the previous...

Updates on the Alfresco Content Services Addon website

*Update: All Addons can be found here - Unfortunately we’ve had to temporarily remove access to addons.alfresco.com - we understand that you may be disappointed, we’re working on bringing it back in a read-only mode whilst we work out what the next ...

Deploying Alfresco Content Services Community Edition 201806 GA

In this blog post I'm going to share how to deploy the brand new Alfresco Content Services Community Edition 201806 GA Release. The new deployment mechanism, announced as major change in the ACS 6.x version, discontinued the traditional wizard and in...

ADF Theming

ADF ThemingOne of the first questions that I receive often when someone starts to play with ADF is how to customize the colors after generated an app.In order to help all the developer to easily accomplish this task in the version 1.8.0 of ADF we hav...

Announcing Alfresco Content Services SDK 4.0 and 3.1!

I'm pleased to announce the availability of SDK 4.0 and 3.1. The artifacts have been released to Maven Central. It might be a few days until the global archetype catalog updates, but read on for more details on how to get started today!This release w...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #87

Last week week we presented at the at London DevOpsour experience with Jenkins Xto automate, release and manage 40+ repositories, which includes Java Libraries, Docker Images, HELM charts and deployments to environments which execute Acceptance tests...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #86

Last week we released Activiti Cloud SR1 containing some major compatibility improvements. At the same time we triaged the issues for our 7.1.0.M1 Milestone that you can follow here: (https://github.com/activiti/activiti/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue...

Activiti Cloud SR1 Released!

I am happy to announce the first Service Release for Activiti Cloud and Activiti Core artefacts. After getting a lot of community feedback from our first GA iteration we are now releasing 7.0.0.SR1improving mostly on compatibility with Spring Boot 2....

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