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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

Create custom pages


You discovered in the Chapter 2, Getting Started with Alfresco, that Alfresco Share is based on the concept of pages. In each site, you can add or remove pages depending of the use of this site. Alfresco Share already provides out-of-the-box pages like Document Library, Calendar, Wiki, Discussions, Blog, Links or Data Lists. In the previous section, we discovered how to create new dashlets to your different dashboards to be able to display custom content. Sometimes, the use of dahslets is not sufficient, and you want to display more information and more features. In this case, you need to create a new Surf page.

In this section, we'll:

  • Create a new page that you'll be able to add to any Share site;

  • Use the CMIS 1.1 API directly from Alfresco Share;

  • Create a simple Angular page to display all webable documents in a site.

Step-by-step - create a new page to list all Webable documents

In this section, we'll create a new Surf page addable to any Share site where the users will...