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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

Creating custom dashlets


Alfresco Share includes two special pages called Dashboard, which contains windows (think Portlets) of content called Dashlets. In the current version, most of these Dashlets are Spring Surf Dashlets. As I explained in the introduction, Alfresco Share provides two platforms or technologies to accomplish that: Surf and Aikau. But we'll use only Surf in this book (except for the menu customization because it's implemented using Aikau and we don't have other options).

As explained above, Alfresco provides two dashboard: user and site dashboard. Each dashboard can be customized by selecting a layout and add only the relevant dashlets. The user dashboard is customizable by each user, and the site dashboard available for each site is customizable by all Site managers.

The following list displays all available dashlets by default in Alfresco.

Name

Description

User and/or Site Dashboard

My Activities

Tracks the most recent activities in your sites.

User Dashboard

My...