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...

IntroductionIn the last post I provided a simple example of how to customize the instantiation of a client-side JavaScript widget in Alfresco Share without really explaining what has been done to make this possible. In this post I will try to explain the changes that we've made to the Surf libraries Read more...

This no longer works in the most recent releases of Alfresco but an issue has been raised to restore itIntroductionThe WebScript libraries can be used independently of Surf and this is what the Alfresco Repository uses to provide its REST API. The Surf libraries build on the WebScript libraries and Read more...

IntroductionThe engineering team at Alfresco has been working hard over the past year or so to make it easier to customize the Share user-interface.  We've now started work on what I’d consider to be the last major piece of the extensibility puzzle – customizing the instantiation of client-side Java Read more...