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Material Designed Aikau

IntroductionIt was recently announced at BeeCon 2016 that Alfresco would be adopting Angular 2 and Google Material Design for all future applications that it develops (but that Aikau would continue to be developed to support Alfresco Share and Record...

Community file list 201604-GA

Alfresco Community 201604 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...

Community file list 201602-GA

Alfresco Community 201602 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...

Alfresco Community Edition 201602 GA Release Notes

Table of Contents1 Alfresco Community Edition 201602 GA Release1.1 Installation1.2 Release Details1.2.1 Goals for this Release1.2.2 Notable New Features1.2.3 Feature Removals1.2.4 Contents1.2.5 Issues Addressed1.2.6 Prerequisites for manual install1....

Aikau 101

IntroductionA complaint that we have heard on occasion is that it is hard to find and hire people with Aikau skills. It’s probably not unexpected that there are few people with a lot of experience in Aikau - after all it’s only really existed as a na...

Aikau Mini Examples - Simple Form

IntroductionThis is one post in a series of short examples of things that can be done using the Aikau framework. The series is not intended to provide complete documentation but simply to show how to solve frequently encountered problems, implement r...

Creating Custom Share Widgets

IntroductionIn my last post I explained the basics of creating a new page by a defining a JSON model of existing Alfresco widgets. The library of widgets that Alfresco provides is currently small but is constantly growing. Ideally it would be nice if...

Latest Updates to Share and Surf

IntroductionI’m pleased to announce the arrival of a number of significant improvements to the UI framework in Alfresco Share. It will be part of the next Alfresco 4.2 Community and Enterprise releases and is available now in HEAD SVN to try out. Rat...

RecordsManagementModel

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comBack to Records ManagementThis document should be considered work in progress and does not reflect features currently available in Alfresco.Table of Contents1 Alfresc...

Alfresco Authentication Subsystems

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comTable of Contents1 Introduction2 What is an Authentication Subsystem?3 What are the Authentication Subsystems?4 What's in an Authentication Subsystem?5 The Alfresco A...

Code Movement vs Content Movement

Seth Gottlieb has written a great post entitled 'Code moves forward. Content moves backward.' that, by strange coincidence, echoes an Alfresco KB item authored by Alfresco's very own Ben Hagan last year.What's interesting to me is that there is an al...

Including a Static XSD in a Web Form

Since their inception, Alfresco WCM Web Forms have supported an inclusion mechanism based on the standard XML Schema include and import constructs. Originally this mechanism read the included assets from the Web Project where the user was creating t...

Enterprise Edition

Alfresco Content Services (historically Alfresco One, and before that Alfresco Enterprise Edition) is a commercial product with some proprietary components which is built on the open source core represented by Alfresco Community Edition. After Commun...

How to have engaging agile reviews

by Tristan BagnallI recently started having discussions with teams and stakeholders on what a sprint review, or kanban review milestone should look like.There seemed to be varied opinions ranging from, it is a chance for us to show how we implemented...

How to have engaging agile reviews: follow up

by Tristan BagnallFollowing up on my recent post How to have engaging agile reviews[1] I wanted to share the experience of one team here at Alfresco.I would like to call out a few of the aims from the review:Find out how easy it was to consume the in...

Content Transformation Limits

Table of Contents1 Links2 Introduction3 Using JConsole to access the Transformer JMX operations3.1 getProperties3.2 setProperties3.3 removeProperties3.4 getTransformationLog3.5 getTransformationDebugLog3.6 getTransformerNames3.7 getTransformationsByE...

Introducing Alfresco SDK 2.2

I'm happy to announce that we have just released Alfresco SDK 2.2.This release brings support for 5.1 as well as a number of bug fixes, you can see the full list here.There are a few notable changes in SDK 2.2DK 2.2 is only compatible with Alfresco 5...

Share Header Colour Customization

IntroductionAlfresco Share has supported themes in general for some time, but it is more challenging to customize the colours used in the Share header bar. We've made some updates in the Aikau 1.0.18 release that now make this a much simpler process....

Aikau 1.0.57 - Improving 3rd Party Testing

BackgroundThe Aikau team is committed to providing weekly backwards compatible releases.It is important to understand that whilst we guarantee that all configuration options for a widget will be honoured in future releases (unless deprecated for remo...

Introducing the Aikau Sandpit

Aikau development continues rapidly with new releases each week. One of the challenges we have is in providing suitable education for getting up-to-speed with what widgets are currently available. We have the JSDoc and the online tutorial but these r...

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