IntroductionIn my last post I explained the basic differences between the old (4.1) and new (4.2) Share header bars. In this post I'm going to provide a slightly more complex example that demonstrates the following:How to create a custom widget by extending an existing widget in the Alfresco library Read more...

IntroductionNow that Alfresco Community 4.2d has been released I thought it would be useful to begin providing some examples of how to customize the new header bar. The new header bar is the first feature in Share to use the updated widget processing framework provided by Surf. In this post I will d Read more...

IntroductionIn my second post in this series I showed how to create a page from existing widgets and in my last post I showed how to create a custom widget. In custom widget showed how to specify i18n properties files of different locales in order to ensure that the widget labels could be rendered i Read more...

IntroductionIn the past three posts in this series I've introduced some of the new custom FreeMarker directives that we've added to Surf and how we're going to use them to make it easier to customize the client-side JavaScript widgets that are instantiated on each page in Share. In the post I'm goin Read more...

IntroductionIn the first post of this series I showed how to extend the 'documentlist.get.html.ftl' and 'documentlist.get.js' files to instantiate a custom JavaScript widget that extends the default 'Alfresco.DocumentList'. This is a fragment from the “webview.get.html.ftl” file:<@markup id='widg Read more...