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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

Encapsulating content operations in actions


As you might suspect, a repository action is a piece of code that can be executed against a piece of content. Actions are discrete units of work. Then, you have Share action representing an action that you can do in Alfresco Share. Some of the out-of-the-box Share actions are Edit Online, Upload New Version, Edit Properties, Move to..., Copy to..., Start Workflow, or Delete Document.

Most of the out-of-the-box Share actions are not linked directly to a repository action, most of them are linked to the Alfresco repository via webscripts. In this chapter, we will focus only on repository actions, and rules that can be configured in the UI and allow you to execute repository actions based on some criteria. Share actions will be covered in Chapter 5, Customizing Alfresco Share.

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