CUST-12 What’s New in Share Extras

Whatʼs New in Share Extras" Will Abson, Senior Solutions Engineer  @wabson" Jeff Potts, Chief Community Ofﬁcer" @jeffpotts01"

What is Share Extras?"•  A collection of popular add-ons for Share 3.3+•  Not just dashlets! •  Admin Console Components" •  Document Library actions" •  Themes" •  Pages" •  and more"•  Easy-to-install JAR files

Motivations for Share Extras"•  Add additional capabilities •  ʻHole-ﬁllersʼ" •  Demonstrate mash-up capabilities"•  Demonstrate best practice for developing, documenting and packaging extensions •  Using sample projects"•  Show how far Share can be pushed •  And discover itʼs limitations"

Where are we now?"•  1 year old!•  4 contributors •  Will Abson, Peter Löfgren, Florian Maul, Romain Guinot"•  37 add-ons, including •  3 sample projects"•  7,000 downloads •  Currently around 1k/month"•  Most initial goals have been met, for now

Where to next?"•  4.0 changes everything •  New opportunities for development" •  Some add-ons have been pushed upstream, others (partially) duplicated"•  Update of all relevant add-ons•  New features also planned•  Share Extras 2.0

Existing Add-ons"•  Almost all add-ons need some updates to work (best) with 4.0•  Changes may well break 3.3/3.4 compatibility•  1.0 branch will allow developers to maintain backwards compatibility

New Features / Roadmap"•  Social add-ons•  More Document Library actions•  Data List extensions•  More themes•  More page definitions•  First custom site component•  First language packs

Social Add-ons"•  Integrate to social providers via OAuth •  Yammer" •  Twitter" •  LinkedIn" •  Flickr"•  User-specific connections •  Complements 4.0 Social Publishing"

The OAuth “Dance”"

Demonstration"•  Yammer Dashlet plus DocLib action•  LinkedIn Dashlet•  Twitter Dashlet•  Language Packs

Document Library Actions"•  Demonstrate different types of action•  Test the limits of the new system•  Ideas?

Data Lists"•  Lots of interest in this area!•  Data list actions•  Import from CSV

Themes"•  Themes can now be site-specific!•  Existing OOTB themes are limited•  Ideas?

Pages and site components"•  Test out the new Extensibility features•  Make use of sample templates•  What are the limitations?

Other changes"•  Moving from Subversion to Git

will.abson@alfresco.com  @wabson  http://sharextras.org/"

CUST-12 What’s New in Share Extras

by Alfresco Software on Nov 14, 2011

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