7 mistakes developers make when customizing Alfresco Share
I’ve seen more than my–ahem–fair share of Alfresco Share over the last several months. Many clients feel that their needs are so close to what Share provides out-of-the-box, that they can save time and...
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Does Alfresco Share need to go on a diet?
When Alfresco first told me about the Surf framework and the plan to build a new then unnamed collaborative client on top of Surf I liked the sound of it. Of course anything other than JavaServer Faces...
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Workflow Dashboards in Alfresco Share
Metaversant recently had a client with some interesting requirements around workflow. I thought I’d post what we did here and get a conversation going about the various pluses and minuses of the...
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Deconstructing DeckShare: A brief look at Alfresco Web Quick Start
Last Fall, just before the Developer Conference in New York City, Alfresco approached Metaversant with a small project–they needed a web site to share presentations from the DevCon sessions and other...
View ArticleNow available: Alfresco Fivestar Ratings add-on for Alfresco Share
A couple of weeks ago I posted a survey asking if anyone saw any value in a five star ratings widget for Alfresco Share. Honestly, it would have only taken one or two positive responses–even if no one...
View ArticleImproving Alfresco Share performance by using getChildren
I had a client that was seeing response time in the neighborhood of several seconds for the Alfresco Share document library and data list pages across all of his sites. The client’s Share install had...
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Trying out Activiti: Examples that leverage Alfresco’s new workflow engine
I’ve been playing with Activiti. It’s an open source, BPMN 2.0 compliant business process engine. The project is sponsored by Alfresco, who hired Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, the founders of jBPM, to...
View ArticleWill Abson’s Wonderful World of Dashlets
Back when Alfresco first launched Surf, the framework on which Alfresco Share is based, a handful of us went to Chicago to hang out in a conference room on a ship in the harbor where we did a deep dive...
View ArticleAlfresco Tutorial: Custom actions including Share configuration
I’ve published a revision of my original Alfresco custom actions tutorial. The second edition greatly expands on the first by adding a UI action example. The original included only a rule action...
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Tip: Adding your own properties to a person object in Alfresco 3.4
Someone in our IRC channel recently asked how to add custom properties to the cm:person object and then configure Alfresco Share to show those properties in Alfresco 3.4.d Community. I have seen this...
View ArticleLet’s stop writing books about Alfresco Explorer
I used to be of the opinion that when it came to books about Alfresco, the more, the better. But with about a dozen on the market at this point, I think it is probably past time to start focusing on...
View ArticleQuick Hack: Creating default folder structures in Alfresco Share sites
Someone recently asked how to create Alfresco Share sites with a default folder structure. Currently, out-of-the-box, when you create an Alfresco Share site, the document library is empty. This person...
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Five steps you can use to figure out how anything in Alfresco Share really works
A forums user recently asked how to use the “quick share” feature from their own code. The implementation is easy to figure out, but I thought illustrating the steps you should use to dig into it would...
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A simple one-way calendar integration for Alfresco Share
Photo credit: Dafne Cholet A common request is to integrate the Alfresco Share calendar with an external calendaring system such as Outlook, Google Calendar, or Zimbra. Without an integration, people...
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Keep your users informed with this new Alfresco Share add-on
A common request from clients is the ability to manage a simple set of system announcements which can be displayed on the Alfresco Share login page. These might be used to let everyone know about...
View ArticleImproving Alfresco Share performance by using getChildren
I had a client that was seeing response time in the neighborhood of several seconds for the Alfresco Share document library and data list pages across all of his sites. The client’s Share install had...
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Trying out Activiti: Examples that leverage Alfresco’s new workflow engine
I’ve been playing with Activiti. It’s an open source, BPMN 2.0 compliant business process engine. The project is sponsored by Alfresco, who hired Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, the founders of jBPM, to...
View ArticleWill Abson’s Wonderful World of Dashlets
Back when Alfresco first launched Surf, the framework on which Alfresco Share is based, a handful of us went to Chicago to hang out in a conference room on a ship in the harbor where we did a deep dive...
View ArticleAlfresco Tutorial: Custom actions including Share configuration
I’ve published a revision of my original Alfresco custom actions tutorial. The second edition greatly expands on the first by adding a UI action example. The original included only a rule action...
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Tip: Adding your own properties to a person object in Alfresco 3.4
Someone in our IRC channel recently asked how to add custom properties to the cm:person object and then configure Alfresco Share to show those properties in Alfresco 3.4.d Community. I have seen this...
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