Share Extras provides a collection of thirty popular add-ons for Alfresco Share, from custom dashlets to full-blown site pages. With Alfresco 4.0 marking a turning point in improving Share Extensibility, this presentation looks at what has been achieved over the last eighteen months and how the project is now moving forward, including a showcase of some exciting new Social add-ons.

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

2. 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

3. 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"

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. The OAuth “Dance”"

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

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

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

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

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

15. Other changes"
• Moving from Subversion to Git

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