Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
• Introduction
• Setting up a database for Alfresco
• Installing Alfresco on Windows
• Installing Alfresco on Linux
• Running Alfresco for the first time

• Chapter 2: Creating and Organizing Contents
• Introduction
• Creating a space
• Creating content
• Uploading a document
• Viewing content details
• Tagging a document
• Categorizing content
• Making a document versionable

• Chapter 3: Securing and Searching Contents
• Introduction
• Creating users
• Creating groups
• Adding users into groups
• Securing your folders
• Securing your files
• Searching in Alfresco
• Performing normal search
• Performing advanced search
• Using saved search

• Chapter 4: Rules – the Smart Spaces
• Introduction
• Understanding the components of a rule
• Creating and applying rules
• Understanding possible actions of a rule

• Chapter 5: Alfresco Administration Console
• Introduction
• Managing system users
• Managing user groups
• Managing categories
• Exporting Alfresco content packages
• Using the Alfresco Node Browser
• Configuring the Alfresco Dashboard

• Chapter 6: Customizing Alfresco Web Client
• Introduction
• Changing the default view of Items in Space contents
• Changing languages in the Login page
• Changing textbox length and text area size
• Controlling the Date Picker
• Controlling the sidebar display
• Including custom Icons in your Spaces
• Changing the default font and color

• Chapter 7: Alfresco Content Model
• Introduction
• Creating new custom content type
• Displaying custom Content Type while content uploading
• Showing custom properties
• Creating custom aspects and associations
• Showing custom Aspects and Associations
• Displaying custom type in Type Specialization
• Customizing Advanced Search to include custom content types

• Chapter 8: Alfresco JavaScript API
• Introduction
• Writing and executing scripts
• Add/Change contents of a document
• Creating a backup copy of a document
• Adding a tag to a document
• Assigning permissions to a user
• Debugging Alfresco JavaScript

• Chapter 9: FreeMarker Templates
• Introduction
• Creating a FreeMarker template
• Displaying all documents in current space
• Displaying all versions of a particular document
• Displaying all assigned tasks of the current user
• Displaying all spaces and sub-spaces recursively

• Chapter 10: Web Scripts
• Introduction
• Writing and deploying Web Scripts
• Using the Alfresco Web Script browser
• Displaying details of documents
• Sending e-mails using a mail template

• Chapter 11: Working with Workflows
• Introduction
• Invoking a workflow
• Creating and deploying custom workflows
• Using the Alfresco Workflow Console

• Chapter 12: Integrating with MS Outlook and MS Office
• Introduction
• Integrating Alfresco with Microsoft Outlook
• Integrating Alfresco with MS Outlook

• Chapter 13: Configuring Alfresco E-Mail and File Servers
• Introduction
• Configuring Alfresco to send e-mails
• Sending e-mails via JavaScript API
• Configuring Alfresco to receive e-mails
• Configure and use Alfresco file servers

• Chapter 14: Building Alfresco
• Introduction
• Installing Subversion client - TortoiseSVN
• Downloading Alfresco's source code
• Compiling and building Alfresco
• Running Alfresco on your machine

• Index