Share Enhancements

David Webster

IntroductionMe:

• David Webster• Alfresco Engineer

• Joined April 2010• UI Team

• @davidcognite

The Session:• Share Enhancements:

• What’s changed since 4.0• Details of:

• Dashlet Updates• Localisation• Document Library Config Extensions• Hybrid Sync

• Preview: what’s coming• Links• Q&A

Alfresco ShareJavaScript CSS

WebScripts (Java or JavaScript)

HTML via Freemarker

Repository

ShareBrowser

Server

JSON/HTML

REST API

What is Share:• Primary Alfresco Interface• Run on top of the Surf Framework• Community, Enterprise, Cloud• Separated from the Repository

1. Dashlet Updates

Site Search

Features:• Quickly search your site for content

New

Saved Search

Features:• Display a search on the dashboard every time you visit

New

Discussion Forum

Features:• View topics• Create topic• Filter:

• My Topics/All Topics• Updated: Today or last 7/14/28 days.

New

Image Preview

Updates:• Layout Updates & Folder Selection

Improved

My Tasks

Updates:• Better Filtering• Paging

Improved

Content I’m Editing

Updates:• Now loads content asynchronously

Improved

2. Localisation

Picture from: http://instagram.com/p/PjTQwAPz0G/

Now in 9 Languages:

German: de

English (US): en

Spanish: es

French: fr

Italian: it

Japanese: ja

Dutch: nl

Russian: ru

Chinese (simplified): zh_CN

Coming Soon:

Norwegian: nb_NOAlfresco in the cloud: all translations

Language preference settings(hopefully timezone too)

Sneak Peak

Get Involved:Community Translations:

• Add Ons Site:• Completed Translations• http://addons.alfresco.com/

• Crowdin.net:• Translations in Progress• http://crowdin.net/project/alfresco

• Forums:• Questions on translations• http://forums.alfresco.com

3. Document Library Configuration Extensions

Extended Configuration Areas:

Create Content Menushare-documentlibrary-config.xml:

<create-content> <content id="google-docs" label="create-content.googledocs.document" icon="document" index="50" type="javascript"> <param name="function"> onGoogledocsActionCreateDocument </param> <evaluator> evaluator.doclib.google.docs.enabled </evaluator> </content></create-content>

Content Filters

<filter id="synced" label="link.synced" evaluator="syncMode.getValue() != 'OFF'" />

<filter id="syncedErrors" label="link.syncedErrors" evaluator="syncMode.getValue() == 'ON_PREMISE'"/>

documentlibrary/filter.get.config.xml:

Interactive Indicators

<indicator id="cloud-synced" index="70" action="onCloudSyncIndicatorAction"> <evaluator> evaluator.doclib.indicator.isSynced </evaluator></indicator>

share-documentlibrary-config.xml:

Multi-select Action Evaluators

<action type="action-link" id="onActionCloudSync" asset="document"  permission="CreateChildren" label="menu.selected-items.cloudSync" notAspect="sync:syncSetMemberNode" />

<action […] hasAspect="sync:syncSetMemberNode"/>

documentlibrary/toolbar.get.config.xml:

4. Hybrid Sync

New UI Actions:

Sign in to Alfresco in the cloud:

Select Folder

Sync Status, from UI

Unsync

Even more features:

WebDAV stability

Category & tag manager updates

Prevent 304 thumbnail revalidationsQuick share

HTML5 uploader

Android tablet support

Improved iPad support

Wiki, Blogs, Forums, drag and drop improvements

Workflow UI improvements

SpringSurf 1.2

Download as zip

Multi-time zone updates

Become manager

Latest Activiti BPM engine

Sharepoint VTI module updates

Doc Lib extendable views

iPad HTML editingPhoto (EXIF) search form

Google Docs

Media management views

Large-scale performance improvements

Coming to a browser near you soon:On the roadmap:

• New Doc Lib views• See Ray Gauss’ talk

• Property Groups• Simplified custom models

• Faceted Search• see blog post from Ixxus

• Share Enhancements• see: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13803

• Hybrid workflow

• Share header refresh

Prototype

Want more?Read:

• Developer blogs:• http://blogs.alfresco.com/

• Official Documentation• http://docs.alfresco.com/

Play:• Download: Community 4.2.b

• http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_and_Install_Alfresco

• Sign up for Alfresco in the cloud• http://my.alfresco.com

More sessions: • Share Customisation

• 11:50 w/ Dave Draper

• Develop Great Dashlets• 2:40 w/ Will Abson

• Share Document Library Views• 3:50 w/ Ray Gauss ||

• Share Customisations Live!• 4:50 w/ Erik Winlöf

Talk:• David Webster

• @davidcognite - david.webster@alfresco.com

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