Alfresco One 5. x Developer's Guide - Second Edition : Discover What It Means to Be an Expert Developer by Exploring the Latest Features Available to You in Alfresco One 5. x.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Alfresco Platform -- Alfresco in the real world -- Basic document management -- Web content management -- Content authoring tools -- Separation of presentation from content -- Systematic publication or deployment -- Alfresco WCM example -- Custom content-centric applications -- Example used throughout this book -- Alfresco architecture -- High-level architecture -- Add-ons -- Open source components -- Major standards and protocols supported -- Customizing Alfresco -- Basic customization -- Dashlets -- Custom site configuration -- Rules and actions -- Simple workflow -- Advanced customization -- Examples of advanced customizations -- Extend the content model -- Perform automatic operations on content -- Customize Alfresco Share -- Create a RESTful API -- Streamline complex business processes with advanced workflows -- Integrate with other systems -- Dusting off your toolbox -- Understanding Alfresco's editions -- Significant feature differences -- What's used in this book -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Alfresco -- Introduction to the Alfresco SDK -- Maven archetypes -- Install prerequisites -- Spring Loaded -- JDK -- Maven -- Install STS -- Create your first application -- Rapid application development -- Traditional approach -- Install Alfresco -- Download Alfresco -- Create your virtual machine -- Deploy your modules -- Check that your modules are installed -- Extending Alfresco -- Understanding the extension mechanism -- Standard Java web application files -- Framework files -- Spring configuration files -- Alfresco configuration files -- Solution-specific files -- Avoid Modifying Alfresco Code and Configuration -- Troubleshooting -- Log4j.

Step-by-step - debugging from within Eclipse -- Node browser -- Starting over -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Working with Content Models -- Defining SomeCo's content model -- Step-by-step - starting the custom content model with custom types -- Types -- Properties and property types -- Constraints -- Step-by-step - adding properties to types -- Step-by-step - relating types with associations -- Associations -- Step-by-step - adding aspects to the content model -- Aspects -- Step-by-step - finishing up the model -- Manage property indexing -- Modeling summary -- Custom behavior -- Modeling best practices -- Out-of-the-box models -- Configuring the UI -- Step-by-step - configure Share forms -- Step-by-step - adding types and aspects to Alfresco Share dropdowns -- Step-by-step - externalizing display labels -- Setting up additional locales -- Step-by-step - adding properties and types to advanced search -- Working with content programmatically -- Step-by-step - creating content with JavaScript -- Knowing when to save documents -- Using JavaScript for batch manipulation -- Writing content to the content property -- Creating content with CMIS -- Step-by-step - run CmisClientClass to create content -- Creating associations -- Searching for content -- Deleting content -- Model manager -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors -- Encapsulating content operations in actions -- Step-by-step - creating a basic action -- Hiding the action from end users -- Creating actions that require user-specified parameters -- Step-by-step - creating an action configurable in Alfresco Share -- Specifying parameters when code executes an action -- Binding logic to custom types with behaviors -- Step-by-step - writing a simple behavior in Java -- Binding to multiple types/aspects -- Frequency.

Figuring out to which policies to bind -- Step-by-step - writing a simple behavior in JavaScript -- Binding behavior to child types -- Step-by-step - writing a user ratings calculator -- Step-by-step - testing the new rating behavior -- Handling deleted ratings -- Extracting metadata from files -- Customizing metadata extractors -- Step-by-step - customizing the metadata mapping -- Overriding the default mapping -- Leveraging out-of-the-box metadata extractors -- Transforming content from one format to another -- Step-by-step - writing a custom transformer -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Customizing Alfresco Share -- Knowing when to customize Alfresco Share and when to write your own -- Adding new menu items -- Step-by-step - adding a simple menu item -- Adding new action items -- Step-by-step - adding an action item to set the web flag -- Restricting the action item by permission -- Writing action evaluators to show/hide UI actions -- Step-by-step - evaluating whether or not to show the set web flag actions -- Changing how Share renders forms -- Step-by-step - using a text area field -- Step-by-step - changing the Status field on the Details page to display as a Stoplight indicator -- Overriding and customizing components -- How to use indicators -- Step-by-step - creating indicators for the status indicator -- How to create metadata template -- Step-by-step - create a metadata template for Operations document -- Creating custom dialogs -- Step-by-step - creating a dialog to publish Whitepapers -- Creating custom dashlets -- Step-by-step - creating a dashlet listing Whitepapers -- Step-by-step - adding filters to your Dashlet -- Create custom pages -- Step-by-step - create a new page to list all Webable documents -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Creating an Angular Application -- Understanding the framework -- Components -- Prepare your environments.

Step-by-step - creating the new virtual machine -- Creating your first JavaScript application -- Step-by-step - develop your first custom UI using the JavaScript API -- Creating your first Angular web application -- Step-by-step - installing all prerequisites -- Step-by-step - creating your first Angular application -- Step-by-step - running the Alfresco demo shell -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts -- Introducing the Web Script Framework -- Step-by-step - Hello World web script -- What just happened? -- Following the Model-View-Controller pattern -- Adding controller logic -- Configuring the Web Script Framework -- Specifying the HTTP method -- Specifying arguments -- Specifying the response format -- Deploying web scripts -- Building solutions with the Web Script Framework -- Planning the SomeCo whitepapers and ratings API -- Retrieving data with web scripts -- Step-by-step - writing a web script to list whitepapers -- Debugging -- Fast facts -- Organizing web scripts -- Overriding web scripts -- Choosing a URL -- Choosing between the repository and the classpath -- Step-by-step - retrieving the rating for a whitepaper -- Specifying optional arguments -- Handling errors -- Writing Java-backed web scripts -- Step-by-step - writing a Java-backed web script to handle ratings posts -- Using the correct ID for Web Script Beans -- Using both Java and JavaScript for controller logic -- Wiring a web script to UI widgets -- Step-by-step - using a widget to post ratings -- Implementing the delete ratings link -- Adding the web script calls to SomeCo's whitepaper web page -- Making other types of content rateable -- Dealing with the cross-domain scripting limitation -- Handling form data -- Step-by-step - implementing a form-based Hello World -- Step-by-step - using file upload in a multipart request.

Advanced web scripts -- Dealing with web script authentication -- Controlling web script cache -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Advanced Workflow -- What is a workflow? -- Workflow options -- Roll your own -- Standalone engines -- Embedded workflow engines -- Creating process definitions -- Step-by-step - creating a Hello World process definition -- Using the Activiti graphical process designer -- Step-by-Step - using Activiti process designer to create processes -- Tokens -- Node types -- Versioning process definitions -- Using alternative deployment methods -- Wiring a process to the Alfresco UI -- Step-by-step - grabbing the Hello World argument from the user -- Understanding workflow-specific content models -- Assigning tasks to users and groups -- Step-by-step - creating the initial Whitepaper submission workflow -- Controlling what actions can be taken from the Task Management dialog -- Enabling the Workflow Initiator to Select Users and Groups -- Step-by-step - use dynamic user assignment -- Adding Logic to Workflows with Listeners and Process Variables -- Storing Data in Process Variables -- Step-by-step - adding logic to the Whitepaper submission workflow -- Getting access to the content in the workflow -- Using multi-instances -- Using the Activiti API -- Step-by-step - implementing third-party review -- Making the third-party review more robust -- Using timers -- Step-by-step - adding a timer to the third-party review -- Debugging workflows -- Comparing Alfresco workflow options -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Amazing Extensions -- Configure and use the search manager -- Configure and use the Smart Folders -- Step-by-step - create your own Smart Folder template -- Alfresco mobile -- Step-by-step - import and run the Alfresco Sample UI -- Step-by-step - create SomeCo mobile application -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Security.

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