Customizing Alfresco Share Will Abson@wabson

Why Should we Customize?

Introducing Share Extras

Types of Share Customization

• 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

Motivations for Share Extras

• Add additional capabilitieso ‘Hole-fillers’o Demonstrate mash-up capabilities

• Demonstrate best practice for developing, documenting and packaging extensionso Using sample projects

• Show how far Share can be pushedo And discover it’s limitations

Demonstrations

Repository Data

• Notice Dashlet• Site Blog Dashlet• Site Poll Dashlet• Geotagged Content Dashlet• Node Browser• Wiki Rich Content

Third Party Data

• BBC Weather Dashlet• iCal Feed Dashlet• Train Times Dashlet• Google Site News Dashlet• Twitter Feed and Search Dashlets• Flickr Dashlets

In Summary

• Share is a great platform• You’re not limited to repository data• Learn YUI• But...

o A broad skill-set is requiredo The product is still evolving – and developer

tools/kits in particularo We need to get more people on board

More Information

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

Questions and Suggestions Welcome!