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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

Summary


This chapter covered four different ways in which you can automatically process content as it is created, read, updated, and deleted. Specifically, you learned how to:

  • Write custom actions both with and without action parameters, as well as how to invoke actions from JavaScript

  • Bind logic to custom types using behaviors, including the logic that has a deal with the fact that it may have to wait until an existing transaction completes

  • Extract metadata from binary files to reduce the amount of re-keying content contributors have to do when adding content to the repository

  • Transform content from one format to another to facilitate full-text searching, or to simply provide a way for users to generate additional output formats from the same piece of content

When planning your own Alfresco implementations and Alfresco-based solutions, it is important to keep these hooks in mind. This is because the more code that can be moved into these areas, the more flexible and end-user configurable your...