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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

Working with content programmatically


Now the repository has a custom model and that model has been exposed to Alfresco Share. For simple document management solutions, this may be enough. But often, code will also be required as a part of your implementation. It might be code in a web application that needs to work with the repository, code that implements custom behavior for custom content types, code that implements Alfresco Share customizations, or code that implements a controller for a web script.

As mentioned in Chapter 1, The Alfresco Platform, there are several APIs available depending on what you want to do. Let's learn how to use code to create content, create associations between content, search for content, and delete content. You'll see a JavaScript example, several examples using the CMIS API with Java.

Step-by-step - creating content with JavaScript

The first example shows how to specialize some content and add aspects to that content using JavaScript. To specialize content...