I recently saw a really interesting blog post from Parashift on creating custom editors for Share. It was interesting because they were showing how to use the showdown.js markdown library as a previewer and that is exactly the same markdown library that Aikau uses for its Markdown widget.I thought i Read more...

Last November (2015) I gave a presentation on "Rapid UI Development with Aikau" at the Alfresco Day in Stockholm on and realized that the recording we took never got published so I've now uploaded it for you to watch here.I wanted to provide this link in a blog post so that I could mention some cave Read more...

BackgroundThere have been a few questions on the discussions pages and on StackOverflow about how to create Share Dashlets using Aikau. This blog post aims to take you through the process required using a use case mentioned in this previous post.Each dashlet in Share is represented by a WebScript so Read more...

IntroductionI'm trying to work through use cases that are raised as questions on our new Community Platform. In this post I'm going to be looking at this question on date rendering. Although it is possible to provide a custom workaround - the better solution would be to provide a pull request (PR) o Read more...

In my last post I described some work I'd done to provide a service within Aikau to support the XML based forms runtime in Share. In this post I attached a video demonstrating a page where the service could be tested by requesting a form from Share and seeing it mapped into a Aikau widgets.Whilst fi Read more...