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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned the following:

  • A workflow is a business process and Alfresco embeds the Activiti workflow engine to execute advanced workflows.

  • Business process definitions can be created using a text editor or the Activiti Designer.

  • Logic can be added to workflows using expressions, JavaScript, and Java.

  • Workflows are well suited to long-running processes and can include asynchronous steps triggered by external programs. In the example, you used the ActivitiRuntimeService, Alfresco web scripts, and actions to implement a process involving non-Alfresco users via e-mail.

  • Timers can be added to a process using relative or absolute dates. Alfresco's workflow console and Activiti Explorer are handy debugging tools.

  • Alfresco's simple workflows are configurable by end users but aren't as powerful or flexible as advanced workflows.

When setting up an advanced workflow for the first time, there are a lot of steps involved because you have to do all the work from mapping the process...