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

By : Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts
Book Image

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

Adding new menu items


Probably the simplest form of UI customization is adding new menu item in the header. In our use case, we'll add external URL.

Step-by-step - adding a simple menu item

Suppose SomeCo wanted to add a set of links to the Alfresco user interface. In this case, Alfresco Share is using the Aikauto display the header of the page. If you want to modify it, you'll need to use Aikau (and not Surf). To know where Aikau is used in Alfresco Share, you can check the following page http://docs.alfresco.com/5.1/concepts/aikau-intro.html and scroll to the section Aikau use in Share.

Let's discover a bit more about Aikau. The main goal of the Aikau framework is to provide a library of widgets that can be re-used and assembled into a web application. Aikau won't replace Alfresco Share, but will be used more and more to move from its original Surf implementation. The main objectives of Aikau are:

  • Maximize code re-use

  • Build user interfaces faster

  • Simplify greatly the customization of page

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