This webinar covered customizing Alfresco Share through add-ons maintained by the community, known as Share Extras. The presenters were Will Abson and Jeff Potts. Share Extras add capabilities to Share like custom dashlets, actions, and forms. The Alfresco partner site also uses add-ons for previews, polls, and other customizations. Development involves Eclipse, a local Alfresco install, and standard build scripts. In summary, Share is highly customizable but a broad set of skills is required as the platform continues to evolve.

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2. Customizing Share
• Your panellists will be
o Will Abson
o Jeff Potts
• Join in using
o WebEx chat panel
o ‘Raise your hand’ in WebEx
o Twitter, using tag #alfrescottl

3. Come on into the Community!
• 2011 Alfresco Dashlet Challenge
Win an iPad 2 for the best new dashlet…
http://bit.ly/iJIFLp
• Community Vision & Plan webinar
Join Jeff at the same time tomorrow…
http://bit.ly/jA9WQD
• Tech Talk Live
Next up ‘Open CMIS’ on Wednesday August 3…
http://bit.ly/pffH4u
• DevCon 2011
Save the date! Americas Nov 2-3, EMEA Nov 9-10…

4. About Share Extras
• Add-ons for Alfresco Share
• Maintained by the Community
o Contributors include Will Abson, Peter Löfgren,
Florian Maul and Romain Guinot
• Many different types
o Not just dashlets!

5. Motivations for Share Extras
• Add additional capabilities
o ‘Hole-fillers’
o Demonstrate mash-up capabilities
• Demonstrate best practice for
developing, documenting and
packaging extensions
o Using sample projects
• Show how far Share can be pushed
o And discover it’s limitations

6. Share Extras Add-on Types
• Custom Dashlets
• Document Library / Data List Actions
• Administration Console components
• Forms configurations, e.g. Data Lists
• Custom page components
• Themes
• Others, e.g. Wiki enhancements

7. About the Alfresco Partner Site
• Knowledge sharing with Alfresco
Partner Network
• Maintained by Partner Enablement
Team
• Built on Alfresco Share
o With a number of customizations

8. Partner Site Add-ons
• Media Previews
• Site Poll Dashlet
• Content Expiration
• Password Reset Dialogue
• Create Bulk Users Console
• Google Analytics Tracking

9. Development Environment
• Eclipse Development Environment
o Eclipse for Java EE, plus SVN plug-in, plus
Freemarker plug-in
o http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/
DevelopmentEnvironment
• Local Alfresco for testing
• Standard Ant build script and sample
project
o http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/
SampleProject

10. In Summary
• Share is a great platform
• You’re not limited to repository data
• Learn YUI
• But...
o A broad skill-set is required
o The product is still evolving – and developer
tools/kits in particular
o Need to get more people on board

11. More Information
• http://code.google.com/p/share-
extras/

12. Questions and Suggestions Welcome!