Slide deck to accompany first TTL on Alfresco Share Customizations

1. Tech Talk Live
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Webinar

2. Customizing Share
• Your panellists will be
o Will Abson
o Jeff Potts
• Join in using
o WebEx chat panel
o ‘Raise your hand’ in WebEx
o Twitter, using tag #alfrescottl

3. Come on into the Community!
• 2011 Alfresco Dashlet Challenge
Win an iPad 2 for the best new dashlet…
http://bit.ly/iJIFLp
• Community Vision & Plan webinar
Join Jeff at the same time tomorrow…
http://bit.ly/jA9WQD
• Tech Talk Live
Next up ‘Open CMIS’ on Wednesday August 3…
http://bit.ly/pffH4u
• DevCon 2011
Save the date! Americas Nov 2-3, EMEA Nov 9-10…

4. About Share Extras
• Add-ons for Alfresco Share
• Maintained by the Community
o Contributors include Will Abson, Peter Löfgren,
Florian Maul and Romain Guinot
• Many different types
o Not just dashlets!

5. Motivations for Share Extras
• Add additional capabilities
o ‘Hole-fillers’
o Demonstrate mash-up capabilities
• Demonstrate best practice for
developing, documenting and
packaging extensions
o Using sample projects
• Show how far Share can be pushed
o And discover it’s limitations

6. Share Extras Add-on Types
• Custom Dashlets
• Document Library / Data List Actions
• Administration Console components
• Forms configurations, e.g. Data Lists
• Custom page components
• Themes
• Others, e.g. Wiki enhancements

7. About the Alfresco Partner Site
• Knowledge sharing with Alfresco
Partner Network
• Maintained by Partner Enablement
Team
• Built on Alfresco Share
o With a number of customizations

8. Partner Site Add-ons
• Media Previews
• Site Poll Dashlet
• Content Expiration
• Password Reset Dialogue
• Create Bulk Users Console
• Google Analytics Tracking

9. Development Environment
• Eclipse Development Environment
o Eclipse for Java EE, plus SVN plug-in, plus
Freemarker plug-in
o http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/
DevelopmentEnvironment
• Local Alfresco for testing
• Standard Ant build script and sample
project
o http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/
SampleProject

10. In Summary
• Share is a great platform
• You’re not limited to repository data
• Learn YUI
• But...
o A broad skill-set is required
o The product is still evolving – and developer
tools/kits in particular
o Need to get more people on board

11. More Information
• http://code.google.com/p/share-
extras/

12. Questions and Suggestions Welcome!