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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts
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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts

Overview of this book

Do you want to create more reliable and secure solutions for enterprise apps? Alfresco One 5.x is your gateway to developing the best industry-standard enterprise apps and this book will help you to become a pro with Alfresco One 5.x development. This book will help you create a complete fully featured app for your organization and while you create that perfect app, you will explore and implement the new and intriguing features of Alfresco. The book starts with an introduction to the Alfresco platform and you’ll see how to configure and customize it. You will learn how to work with the content in a content management system and how you can extend it to your own use case. Next, you will find out how to work with Alfresco Share, an all-purpose user interface for general document management, and customize it. Moving on, you write web scripts that create, read, and delete data in the back-end repository. Further on from that, you’ll work with a set of tools that Alfresco provides; to generate a basic AnglularJS application supporting use cases, to name a few authentication, document list, document view. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop your own Alfresco Mobile app and understand how Smart Folders and Search manager work. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, be able to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and work with Alfresco’s security services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Starting over


During development, it is quite common to have to start with a fresh repository. Usually this is because you've made a significant change to the model, and you'd rather blow everything away than clean up inconsistencies. The Alfresco repository is made up of three parts: the metadata stored in the relational database, the binary files stored on the file system and the Solr indexes. To clear out the repository, you have to clear out all three. If you delete the data directory but not the database, you will see a bunch of data integrity problems because the binary files that the database knows about are no longer there. Be sure that Alfresco is stopped.

Let's start by the database:

  1. Start PostgreSQL: service alfresco start postgresql

  2. Recreate the database:

            /opt/alfresco/postgresql/bin/psql -U postgres 
            Password for user postgres: admin 
            postgres=#DROP DATABASE alfresco; 
            postgres=#CREATE DATABASE alfresco WITH OWNER alfresco; 
    ...