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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

Writing action evaluators to show/hide UI actions


In the previous example, you set up two action items to enable and disable the isActive flag for a webable piece of content. The actions only show up if a user has the appropriate permissions. But what if SomeCo wants to give several different people or groups Write permission, but only wants a subset of those folks to be able to publish documents to the Web? Not only that, but isn't it a bit sloppy to show the Enable link when the isActive flag is already set to True (and Disable when it is already set to False)?

Both of these issues are easily addressed using Spring beans and out-of-the-box Alfresco Share evaluators. Evaluators are used to control if an action item should be displayed or not. If you don't find what you need in the standard evaluators, you can as well create your own evaluator coded in Java (more information here http://docs.alfresco.com/5.1/tasks/dev-extensions-share-tutorials-custom-evaluator.html).

Step-by-step - evaluating...