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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

Integrating Alfresco with Microsoft Outlook


Alfresco has offered a fully functional and feature-rich add-in for Microsoft Office, especially for MS-Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

In this recipe, we will see how to download, install, and use this add-in from MS-Office 2003 applications.

Getting ready...

First you must check whether your MS-Office installation is fulfilling the pre-requisites for this Add-in.

You need .NET Framework 2.0 (or a higher version) for this Add-in to run.

You must ensure the .NET Programmability Support option has been installed for each of the Office applications you are installing the add-ins for. This option can be found by running the Office installation program within the list of available options for each application.

  1. 1. Open your web browser and navigate to the Alfresco community download page. For the 3.3 version of Alfresco, you open http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_Edition_file_list_3.3. In the last section of the download page, available Microsoft Office...