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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128163
Pages 528 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Benjamin Chevallereau Benjamin Chevallereau
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Jeff Potts Jeff Potts
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. The Alfresco Platform 2. Getting Started with Alfresco 3. Working with Content Models 4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors 5. Customizing Alfresco Share 6. Creating an Angular Application 7. Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts 8. Advanced Workflow 9. Amazing Extensions 10. Security

Model manager


Alfresco provides an interactive tool to design your own custom model. It allows you to add custom types, aspects, and properties. On top of that, you can use the same tool to design the different forms for your content types and aspects. Open Alfresco Share and login as administrator, click on Admin Tools, click on Model Manager.

We are not going to discover how to use this tool but you'll notice that it follows exactly what we did to create our custom model manually. You could argue that it would have been easier to use this tool, instead of creating all these XML and properties file. However, I think that it's always important to really understand how it's configured and implemented from a pure technical point of view. Moreover, this tool doesn't cover all possibilities. For example, it's not possible to create association or child-association using this tool.

I would recommend this tool if you are looking for implementing a quick demonstration. But I don't think that it...

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