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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Displaying details of documents


This Web Script will accept a string from a user, will search for documents with that name, and finally will display the details of all those documents.

How to do it...

  1. 1. We will have to create new files for the Web Script, let's name this script as documentdetails.

  2. 2. Open a text editor and create a new file with this code:

    <webscript>
    <shortname>Document Details</shortname>
    <description>Searches document(s) and displays details of all the documents.</description>
    <url>/com/infoaxon/docdetails</url>
    <format default="html"/>
    <authentication>user</authentication>
    <transaction>required</transaction>
    </webscript>
    
  3. 3. Save the file with the name docdetails.get.desc.xml in the \tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\com\infoaxon folder. This is our Web Script descriptor file.

  4. 4. Now we create the JavaScript controller file. Here is the code:

    function main()
    {...