Alfresco - Building a Really Simple Wiki

Built in 60: Build a Simple Wiki with Web Scripts Luis Sala Senior Director of Solutions Engineering www.alfresco.com See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki

Introduction

Luis Sala, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering http:// blogs .alfresco.com/ luissala

Former Chief Solutions Architect at Epicentric and Principal SE at Vignette

See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki

Agenda

Web Script Overview

Web Script-based Wiki

Other Wiki Options

Quick Demonstration

Q & A

What are Web Scripts? Web Scripting

Agile Script-Driven MVC

Multiple uses

Roll your own API

Create new UI components

Create portlets/widgets

Expose WCM/AVM features

Script-based implementation

Server-side JavaScript

Freemarker

Limited only by your imagination

Integration: Create a mashup

Search: Exposed to other systems.

Rich Internet Applications

Cross-language

Cross-platform

JavaScript (Controller) Freemarker (View) Alfresco Repository (Model) See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki Consumer / Client

Components of a Web Script

XML Descriptor

URI Templates

Authentication Requirements

Transactional Requirements

One or more server-side JavaScript files (Controller)

One for each HTTP method (GET, PUT, POST, etc.)

One or more Freemarker templates (View)

One for each HTTP method and desired output type (HTML, XML, JSON, etc.)

Two types of Web Scripts…

Data Web Script

RESTstyle / RESTful URL

Returns structured data:

XML

JSON

CSV

UI Web Script

Renders self-contained UI.

Can leverage Data Web Scripts.

Web Scripts as Gadgets

Virtually any Web Script can be a gadget by using its URL.

http:// HOST : PORT /alfresco/wcs/ SCRIPT

Developers have many choices:

HTML

AJAX

JavaScript

JSON

Any combination of the above.

JavaScript (Controller) Freemarker (View) Alfresco Repository (Model) iGoogle HTML AJAX JSON See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki

wiki.get.js (part 1) // Extract the Wiki Space DBID from PATH // Eg. http://localhost/alfresco/s/wiki/ 1234 var wikiId = parseInt(url.extension); var nodes = search.luceneSearch("@sys\:node-dbid:" + wikiId) var pageName = args["p"]; if (pageName == null || pageName == "") { pageName = "home"; } // end if var pageNode = wikiSpace.childByNamePath(pageName); See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki

wiki.get.js (part 2) // Get the designated page or home page. if (pageNode == null) { pageNode = wikiSpace.createFile(pageName); pageNode.content = "This page has not yet been edited. Please click on the 'Edit' link to modify." pageNode.save(); } // Translate WikiLinks var WIKI_LINK = /[[([^|]]*)(|([^]]+))?]]/g; var content = (pageNode.content + "").replace(WIKI_LINK, "<a href="" + url.service +"?p=$1">$1</a>"); model.wikiId = wikiId + ""; model.pageNode = pageNode; model.pageName = pageNode.name; model.content = content; See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/ simplewiki

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