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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

Creating custom dialogs


For the moment, the manager handling operational documents seems pretty satisfied by the solution that we implemented. We can work and satisfy another manager. If you remember our work on Whitepapers, we create two actions to enable and disable the Web flag. Each UI action calls the same action that we defined in the repository. Moreover, when we enable the Web flag, we update automatically the publish date with the current date. We want to improve this behavior. We want to be able to set the Web flag to true and to specify when should be the publish date. This feature will be very useful to plan the publication of the Whitepapers.

In this section, we'll:

  • Update the Alfresco action to receive the publication date as parameter;

  • Create a new form in Alfresco Share with an input field for the publication date;

  • Update the action definition in Alfresco Share to use the new form.

Step-by-step - creating a dialog to publish Whitepapers

To develop the custom dialog, follow these...