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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.

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Jul, 2011 | 380 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Introduction
Alfresco products
Setting up a database for Alfresco
Installing Alfresco on Windows
Installing Alfresco on Linux
Running Alfresco for the first time
2
Creating and Organizing Contents
Creating and Organizing Contents
Introduction
Creating a space
Creating content
Uploading a document
Viewing content details
Tagging a document
Categorizing content
Making a document versionable
3
Securing and Searching Contents
Securing and Searching Contents
Introduction
Creating users
Creating groups
Adding users into groups
Securing your folders
Securing your files
Searching in Alfresco
Performing normal search
Performing advanced search
Using saved search
4
Rules—the Smart Spaces
Rules—the Smart Spaces
Introduction
Understanding the components of a rule
Creating and applying rules
Understanding possible actions of a rule
5
Alfresco Administration Console
Alfresco Administration Console
Introduction
Managing system users
Managing user groups
Managing categories
Exporting Alfresco content packages
Using the Alfresco Node Browser
Configuring the Alfresco Dashboard
6
Customizing Alfresco Web Client
Customizing Alfresco Web Client
Introduction
Changing the default view of Items in Space contents
7
Alfresco Content Model
Alfresco Content Model
Introduction
Creating new custom content type
8
Alfresco JavaScript API
Alfresco JavaScript API
Introduction
Writing and executing scripts
Add/Change contents of a document
Creating a backup copy of a document
Adding a tag to a document
Assigning permissions to a user
Debugging Alfresco JavaScript
9
FreeMarker Templates
FreeMarker Templates
Introduction
Creating a FreeMarker template
Displaying all documents in current space
Displaying all versions of a particular document
Displaying all assigned tasks of the current user
Displaying all spaces and sub-spaces recursively
10
Web Scripts
Web Scripts
Introduction
Writing and deploying Web Scripts
Using the Alfresco Web Script browser
Displaying details of documents
Sending e-mails using a mail template
11
Working with Workflows
Working with Workflows
Introduction
Invoking a workflow
Creating and deploying custom workflows
Using the Alfresco Workflow Console
12
Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office
Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office
Introduction
Integrating Alfresco with Microsoft Outlook
Integrating Alfresco with MS Outlook
13
Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers
Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers
Introduction
Configuring Alfresco to send e-mails
Sending e-mails via JavaScript API
Configuring Alfresco to receive e-mails
Configure and use Alfresco file servers
14
Building Alfresco
Building Alfresco
Introduction
Installing Subversion client - TortoiseSVN
Downloading Alfresco's source code
Compiling and building Alfresco
Running Alfresco on your machine
Index
Index

Writing and executing scripts

There are a few options and implementation models by which you can write your JavaScript files and execute them in Alfresco. A couple of the most usual models are:

  • Writing and storing scripts in the Data Dictionary

  • Using Web Scripts

We will explore Web Scripts later in Chapter 10. However, in this recipe, we will see how to write and execute simple scripts from the Data Dictionary.

Getting ready

  1. 1. Open the Alfresco explorer and navigate to the Company Home | Data Dictionary | Scripts folder.

  2. 2. This is the space where all the JavaScript files should be stored. Alfresco explorer looks for JS files by default from this location. Alfresco has provided some sample scripts to make the scripting methodology more understandable.

  3. 3. We will try executing the backup.js script provided in this space. One way you can execute the script files is with the Run Action method.

  4. 4. Let’s assume in a particular space we have a document. We will run the backup.js script against this...

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