Web publishing dashlets
by Vinita Choudhary, Pallika Majmudar, Amita Bhandari, Munwar Shariff
Alfresco 3 Web Content Management
- Alfresco 3 Web Content Management
- Alfresco 3 Web Content Management
- Credits
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. A Publishing Style Web CMS
- 2. Installation and Configuration
- Installing a JDK
- Installing MySQL
- Alfresco WCM
- Installation option that is suitable for you
- Installing Alfresco
- Installing Alfresco on Windows
- Installing Alfresco on Red Hat Linux
- Installing Alfresco on Mac
- Installing the Alfresco WAR on any platform
- Modifying the directory paths for Tomcat 6.x
- Downloading the extension samples
- Deploying Share into a separate Tomcat instance
- Installing Alfresco components
- Installing Alfresco WCM
- Verifying the WCM installation
- Installing the WCM standalone deployment receiver
- Compiling and deploying the customizations on top of the WCM core
- Installing OpenOffice
- Installing ImageMagick
- Installing Microsoft Office add-ins
- Installing Flash Player
- Installing SWFTools
- Installing TinyMCE language packs
- Installing an Alfresco Module Package
- Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support
- Installing the SharePoint Protocol Support AMP
- Running Alfresco
- Starting and stopping Alfresco as a console application
- Installation folder structure
- Configuring Alfresco as a Windows service
- Summary
- 3. Getting Started with Alfresco WCM
- 4. Web Content Production with Web Forms
- Why web forms
- Introduction to web forms
- Creating web forms
- Rendition templates
- Associating web forms and renditions for specific/multiple project(s)
- Creating dynamic content
- Edit web forms for renditions
- Web publishing dashlets
- Summary
- 5. WCM Workflows
- Why workflows are required
- Introduction to the workflow
- Configuring workflows
- Creating a custom WCM Workflow for a group
- Expiring content in WCM
- Summary
- 6. Dynamic Deployment and Customizations
- Dynamic deployment
- Dynamic models
- Dynamic Resource Bundles
- Dynamic workflows
- Dynamic Alfresco Explorer
- Deploying Alfresco Explorer customizations
- Reloading web client customizations
- Reloading web client customizations
- Testing the workflow
- Customization of existing workflow to use e-mail notifications
- Remove workflow for specific staging submission
- Test using Submit Items wizard
- Test using Submit Items wizard
- Test using Submit Items wizard
- 7. Content Delivery and Deployment
- 8. Managing Multiple Websites Using WCM
- 9. Alfresco Surf and Web Editor
- 10. Integrating WCM Using Web Scripts
- Concepts of WCM web scripts
- Alfresco web script framework
- What's new in Alfresco 3 web scripts
- Using web scripts with Alfresco WCM
- Implementing web scripts for WCM
- Root objects of FreeMarker
- FreeMarker methods for the AVM repository
- Root objects for an execution script
- JavaScript methods for the AVM repository
- Java-backed controller
- Integrating WCM with external applications—case studies
- Integrating Alfresco WCM and Liferay with a news portlet
- Web script for getting news headlines
- Storing/registering a web script in Alfresco
- Portlet in Liferay
- Integrating Alfresco WCM and Drupal with monthly blogs
- Web script for getting monthly blogs
- Storing/registering the web script in Alfresco
- Calling the web script in Drupal
- Integrating Alfresco WCM with any J2EE web application
- Web script for getting the details of a particular news item
- Calling web scripts from a JSP page
- Web script for getting the details of a particular news item
- Summary
- 11. Leveraging Alfresco Framework for WCM
- Membership and Security Mechanism
- Common repository
- Image transformation in WCM
- Advanced search in WCM
- Case study: User Interface for Advanced Search in WCM
- Summary
- 12. WCM Administration
- Test using Submit Items wizard
- Test using Submit Items wizard
- Reloading web client customizations
- Deploying Alfresco Explorer customizations
- Dynamic deployment
Alfresco provides two new dashboard components, My Web Forms and My Web Files, which put the needed set of publishing operations at the fingertips of any knowledge worker, helping them to access and speed through the publishing process while masking the underlying process and structure of the Web Content Management system. Follow the next steps to configure dashlets:
- In the Alfresco Explorer user interface, the My Alfresco area is known as the Dashboard.
- Click on the My Alfresco menu link in the toolbar to view your personal dashboard.
- To start configuring your dashboard, click on the Configure icon given in the My Alfresco dashboard. The Configure Dashboard Wizard will open up a screen, allowing you to select the dashboard layout and dashlets. Select the style of layout you wish to have for your dashboard. Click on the Next button to move to the next step, selecting the dashboard components.
- Select the following components:
- My Tasks To Do: Lists all the tasks assigned to you that are pending
- My Web Forms: Lists all the web forms available to the web project and can create content directly from here
- My Web Files: Lists all the web forms available to the web project and can edit content directly from here
- Click on the Next or Finish button to save your selection. The selection is effective immediately, and you can see the dashboard with your selections, as shown in the next screenshot:
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