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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

Wiring a web script to UI widgets


SomeCo wants to show a graphical ratings widget on its web page. When the user clicks a star, it should post the corresponding rating to Alfresco. In a subsequent example, you'll see how to leverage the widget on SomeCo's website. For this example, you are going to add the ratings widget to the HTML response for the rating web script. That will let you test both the widget and the rating POST.

Note

We'll use jQuery in our HTML page. For the ratings widget, it is based on code from the library at http://rateyo.fundoocode.ninja/.

You may recall that in the earlier rating example, the HTML response simply showed the rating summary data for a given whitepaper. The goal now is to enhance that response with the rating widget so that the POST can be tested. The following figure shows what the response will look like when you are done. This example whitepaper node has 2 ratings and an average rating of 3:

The purpose of the rating widget is two-fold. First, it graphically...