Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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.

Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started

Introduction

Alfresco products

Setting up a database for Alfresco

Installing Alfresco on Windows

Installing Alfresco on Linux

Running Alfresco for the first time

Creating and Organizing Contents

Viewing content details

Tagging a document

Categorizing content

Making a document versionable

Securing and Searching Contents

Introduction

Creating users

Creating groups

Adding users into groups

Securing your folders

Securing your files

Searching in Alfresco

Performing normal search

Performing advanced search

Using saved search

Rules—the Smart Spaces

Introduction

Understanding the components of a rule

Creating and applying rules

Understanding possible actions of a rule

Alfresco Administration Console

Introduction

Managing system users

Managing user groups

Managing categories

Exporting Alfresco content packages

Using the Alfresco Node Browser

Configuring the Alfresco Dashboard

Customizing Alfresco Web Client

Introduction

Changing the default view of Items in Space contents

Alfresco Content Model

Introduction

Creating new custom content type

Alfresco JavaScript API

Introduction

Writing and executing scripts

Add/Change contents of a document

Creating a backup copy of a document

Adding a tag to a document

Assigning permissions to a user

Debugging Alfresco JavaScript

FreeMarker Templates

Introduction

Creating a FreeMarker template

Displaying all documents in current space

Displaying all versions of a particular document

Displaying all assigned tasks of the current user

Displaying all spaces and sub-spaces recursively

Web Scripts

Introduction

Writing and deploying Web Scripts

Using the Alfresco Web Script browser

Displaying details of documents

Sending e-mails using a mail template

Working with Workflows

Introduction

Invoking a workflow

Creating and deploying custom workflows

Using the Alfresco Workflow Console

Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office

Introduction

Integrating Alfresco with Microsoft Outlook

Integrating Alfresco with MS Outlook

Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers

Introduction

Configuring Alfresco to send e-mails

Sending e-mails via JavaScript API

Configuring Alfresco to receive e-mails

Configure and use Alfresco file servers

Building Alfresco

Introduction

Installing Subversion client - TortoiseSVN

Downloading Alfresco's source code

Compiling and building Alfresco

Running Alfresco on your machine

Index

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Creating a backup copy of a document

In this recipe, we will write a script to create a backup copy of a particular document.

How to do it...

1. Create a new script file in the Company Home>Data Dictionary>Scripts>Cookbook folder and add the following code. Let’s say the file is named createbackup.js

var back = space.childByNamePath("Backup");
if (back == null && space.hasPermission("CreateChildren"))
{
back = space.createFolder("Backup");
}
if (back != null && back.hasPermission("CreateChildren"))
{
var copied = document.copy(back);
if (copied != null)
{
var backName = "Backup of " + copied.name;
copied.name = backName;
copied.properties.description = "This is a Backup copy created by JS";
copied.save();
}
}

2. Execute the script using Run Action on the document Test_JS_API.txt in the Chapter 8 folder.
3. After executing the script, a new folder named Backup will be created (if it does not exist already) and a copy of this document (named Backup of Test_JS_API.txt)...

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