In this chapter, you learned that the Alfresco Share is an all-purpose user interface for general document management. It can be easily extended using approaches that range from making XML configuration file changes to writing new Surf dashlets or pages.
Specifically, you learned how to:
Add new menu items to the top bar menu
Create new actions items using dialogs or not
Show/hide action items based on things such as permissions or arbitrary logic
Create custom metadata template to change how Share shows repository data
Implement indicators in Share to reflect a status or an information on documents
Create a new form control to interact differently with metadata
Assess whether the solution you are building should be based on a custom version of Alfresco Share, or would be more appropriate as a custom application
We discovered in this chapter how you can configure and customize Alfresco Share for your use case. In the next chapter, we'll discover more about the new Alfresco Development Framework...
