Getting Started: How Alfresco Works Terminology Guide – Skim the Alfresco terminology guide before diving into details of the product. Aflresco Documentation Resource Center – These “Getting Started Tutorials” are great for first-time Alfresco users: “Alfresco Explorer Document Management” and “Getting Started with Alfresco Share Collaboration”. This site is organized like online help, so navigate [...]

Introduction Note: This article isn’t an exhaustive dashlet development how-to. For an introduction to the platform and technologies used to build dashlets, a great place to start is the Alfresco Surf Platform Developers Guide. Dashlets are a lot of fun. They expose a tremendous amount of functionality, and they give users and project teams the [...]

Introduction Note: This article assumes that you already know the ins and outs of basic Spring configuration and that you know how to build basic Alfresco extensions. If you need an introduction to these concepts, I recommend you start with the Alfresco development wiki . Alfresco is great. It’s a rock solid content management and [...]

Overview The WDK Combo Container component is heavily utilized throughout Webtop to provide a consistent and flexible user interface for performing coordinated actions upon multiple repository objects. It is used by many of the core document actions in Webtop, such as Import, Checkout, Checkin, Cancel Checkout, Link Here, and Export, as well as other multiselect [...]

Overview In my last article, I discussed how to monitor services and integration points for a complex Documentum based application. In this article, I turn my attention to strategies we employed to make our workflow integration more resilient to problems that might be encountered. This article will have a more technical focus. In our experience, [...]