Since version 1.2, uploader-plus is available on the Maven Central repository so you do not need to download it manually or compile it to use it. If you’re using Maven for your Alfresco customisation project and if you want to include (overlay) uploader-plus in your build, you’ll need to add the following dependencies. In your…
I’ve just released uploader-plus 1.2. This new version includes: bug fix for mime-types not set correctly i18n of content types Support for Alfresco Maven SDK 2.0.0 Testing on Alfresco 5.0.c Exclusion of system content types that are not generally useful The following picture shows an example of i18n of content types: notice the “Content” option…
I’ve just posted a project on GitHub to simplify development with MyBatis. MyBatis is a Java persistence framework and a popular choice, even over Hibernate or JPA, when the developer wants more control over the SQL that is executed. A good way to kickstart a MyBatis project it is to run MyBatis Generator. MyBatis Generator…
Being proficient in a programming language usually means being able to write good code in that language, but I think it is just as important to be able to read code written by others, especially by the experts in that language. In this post I’ve collected a number of JS idioms, recurrent “phrases” and patterns…
In a previous post I reviewed five Alfresco plugins that provide custom picklist fields. The plugins differ in the way they store the list of values, but almost all of them share the fact that the field is displayed as a picklist and that the list of values can be controlled by an admin user…
In standard Alfresco forms, a field is displayed as a picklist only if the field is associated to a constraint that enumerates the allowed values. Constraints are great but changing them has two problems: first no user interface is provided and a developer’s intervention is required to edit the content model xml, second Alfresco has…
Happy new year to everybody! This year I started my work in a different way. Yesterday I took the Alfresco Certified Engineer exam at an authorised centre. It was tough, I had to prepare for it, and luckily I passed it! It’s broad, the subjects it covers are many, and the best place to find…
I’ve just been accepted as a member of the Order Of The Bee. The OOTB is an independent group of Alfresco professionals/enthusiasts from around the world that promotes Alfresco as an open-source community effort. Among its members, Jeff Potts and other well know community contributors. Through their books, add-ons, articles and answers in the forums,…
Alfresco webscripts support the MVC pattern where the ‘C’, the controller, can be implemented in Java or in JavaScript. By reading a recently published book on Alfresco webscripts I found out that a webscript can have both a Java and a JavaScript implementation working together. It works this way: the Java controller is executed first,…
“Learning Alfresco Web Scripts” by Ramesh Chauhan was published just a few weeks ago. I bought it, quickly read the interesting bits, then re-read it from cover to cover during some long journeys by train over the past week. Overall it is a good book so I though I’d write a review to help you…