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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the Alfresco Dashboard


When you log in into the web client application, by default you land up in your Alfresco dashboard—named My Alfresco.

How to do it...

You can configure this landing page using the Configure link on top right corner.

  1. 1. The first step in the configuration wizard is to set up your screen layout—four options are offered here.

  2. 2. Choose the layout you like, and click Next. Suppose we select Two Column Narrow Right layout.

  3. 3. The next screen enables you to put the components in each of the available columns of your layout. There are a number of components available, which you can use and configure your dashboard to configure.

  4. 4. Suppose, we select My Tasks To Do and OpenSearch components in column-1 and My Spaces List component in Column-2. Click Finish when you are satisfied.

  5. 5. You now have a new set of components and layout in your dashboard.

  6. 6. The My Spaces List is a particularly a useful component. You can perform a wide variety of document management functionalities...