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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Customizing the User Interface

The Alfresco Explorer user interface is designed to handle most of the common user interaction scenarios. However, each business application will have some specific user interface requirements. Alfresco allows you to configure certain user-interface elements, such as space icons, menu options, and the custom look and feel of a space. Of course, you can change the entire look and feel of the application using Java programming.

Each user of the system can have a personalized dashboard view. In this chapter, you will examine various options to customize the user interface, including custom dashlets (dashboard components). You will experience the power of FreeMarker in consolidating the content information and presenting it to the end users. FreeMarker is covered under the Presentation templates section later in this chapter. Alfresco Explorer is the default UI provided by the same web application to access the repository. Each customization of the Explorer...