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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

Handling form data


The rating example makes an AJAX call using the POST method. What if, instead of using AJAX, you were simply posting an HTML form? The web script framework is able to handle form posts, including multi-part forms.

For example, let's implement a new HelloWorld example as a form post instead of passing the name argument in the query string. We can use a static HTML page to render the form, but for the cost of an extra descriptor let's use a web script for both the GET (to render the form) and the POST (to process the form data). To do this, you'll need two descriptors (one for GET and one for POST), two FreeMarker templates, and a JavaScript controller.

Step-by-step - implementing a form-based Hello World

To create a new version of the Hello World web script using a form, do the following:

  1. Create a descriptor for the GET called helloworldform.get.desc.xml in repo | src | main | amp | config | alfresco | extension | templates | webscripts | com | someco with the following content...