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Pipelines are cool, right?...

Delivery Pipelines; When you think pipeline you usually think "I put something in one end and get something out of the other". True, but it's what happens whilst in the "pipe" thats the exciting bit. You can add as many or few gateways/checkpoints/hu...

Welcome to the New Alfresco Process Service & Activiti Community

Welcome to the new Alfresco Process Services & Activiti community! This is the place to interact with other members and our team. If you have a question, post here as our team or other community members are here to help!

How I (probably over-simplified) integrated Web-sockets, Messaging and ReactJS Components.

By Martin Whittington, Software Engineer DevOps. 7th July 2015Disclaimer: This work and the technologies are not related to any Alfresco products.There isn’t a great deal of documentation or “best practices” that best describes how ReactJS could or c...

Project Overview: Alfresco in the Cloud

Purpose and ScopeAlfresco in the Cloud is a hosted multi-tenant edition of the Alfresco ECM platform. It consists of the Alfresco Share collaboration interface, and developers can also access the platform through the public REST APis.The service is o...

How to Contribute

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Alfresco project.There are several areas in which you can provide assistance:User SupportEven the most experienced Alfresco developers were new once, and chances are someone has helped you at some po...

New add-on for displaying and managing announcements in Share

I wrote a simple little add-on that others may find useful. It allows administrators to manage announcements in an Announcements folder in the Data Dictionary. Then it displays those announcements on the Alfresco Share login page and in a dashlet.I w...

Using vue.js with Aikau

IntroductionIn the recent State of JavaScript 2016 survey results I noticed that vue.js was gaining massively in popularity as a front-end framework so I thought it might be an interesting experiment to see how easily it could be leveraged within Aik...

Project Overview: Share

Purpose and ScopeAlfresco Share is the primary user interface for Alfresco Content Services and Alfresco Community Edition. Focused on collaboration use cases, Share makes it easy to work on content organized in sites. Though Share can be customized ...

Alfresco Community Edition 201609 EA Release Notes

Alfresco Community Edition 201609 EA ReleaseThese release notes provide information for the 201609 Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition.Early access releases are intended for interested parties to test new features, provide feedback, an...

Creating the Markdown with Preview Editor Widget

IntroductionIn my last blog post I showed how easy it is to add new items into the Aikau Document Library "Create Content..." menu. In this particularly example I was showing how to create markdown content but in order to do this I actually needed to...

Project Overview: Governance Services

Purpose and ScopeThe Alfresco Records Management module adds Information Governance capability to the Alfresco ECM repository and Share interface. It includes features for declaring content as a formal record which will be managed through a dispositi...

Community file list 201605-GA

Alfresco Community 201605 is available for Windows 32 bit, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and Mac OS X.For further information, refer to the Release Notes.Table of Contents1 Complete Installation2 Maven repository3 Individual Components and Custom Ins...

"Rapid UI Development with Aikau" Recording Online

Last November (2015) I gave a presentation on "Rapid UI Development with Aikau" at the Alfresco Day in Stockholm on and realized that the recording we took never got published so I've now uploaded it for you to watch here.I wanted to provide this lin...

Alfresco Community Edition file list 201609-EA

Alfresco Community 201609 Early Access is available for Windows 32 bit, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and Mac OS X.For further information, refer to the release notes: Alfresco Community Edition 201609 EA Release Notes‌ Complete Installation 64-bit W...

Creating an Aikau Pull Request (for Date formatting)

IntroductionI'm trying to work through use cases that are raised as questions on our new Community Platform. In this post I'm going to be looking at this question on date rendering. Although it is possible to provide a custom workaround - the better ...

Aikau 1.0.84 - Forms Runtime Service with Tasks Page

In my last post I described some work I'd done to provide a service within Aikau to support the XML based forms runtime in Share. In this post I attached a video demonstrating a page where the service could be tested by requesting a form from Share a...

Customizing Search Queries

Update 14/11/2016From version 1.0.96 of Aikau this post is out-of-date in that the issue was raised as a feature enhancement and a solution was implemented to support adding additional query parameters through configuration of the additionalQueryPara...

Applying the Open Core Model in Alfresco 5.1

With the recent release of Alfresco Community Edition 201602, and Alfresco One 5.1, the latest version of Alfresco is ready for broad adoption. The 5.1 release has exciting new capabilities that will benefit organizations large and small, and we want...

Aikau 1.0.87 - People Page Libraries

The latest release of Aikau (at the time of writing 1.0.87) contains a new library file that provides functions that can be called to easily build user related content. This file can be imported into WebScripts much like the Data Lists and Document L...

Balancing the variety of work going into the Platform Delivery Team

In Alfresco, on our platform we support a large number of code versions, somewhere over 30. The platform is also big, made up of many moving parts. Naturally all of these can produce bugs. We also have considerable work on our enhancements, our small...

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