Share Configuration Training Course

1 day.

At the conclusion of this course you should be comfortable with all the concepts and tasks required to competently:

• Configure Share to support your custom content models
• Describe and have an understanding of the forms subsystem
• Change the advanced search through configuration
• Support your own custom data lists through Share configuration
• Know where the boundaries of development lie with the Share interface

This course is aimed at developers who have prior knowledge of Alfresco and  want to understand the Alfresco Forms system in order to configure Alfresco Share for end users.

It is a requirement that you understand XML and are able to edit XML files for configuration of the system. You should be familiar with basic system administration of an operating system such as Linux or Windows. It is helpful if delegates have previously used a scripting language such as Javascript and prior knowledge of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse is a bonus.

If you have not used Alfresco before you should first complete the Alfresco Fundamentals course. 

In order to run the virtual machine your laptop needs to have some spare capacity. The machine requirements are:

Windows

• Standard x86-compatible or x86-64-compatible processor with a minimum of two cores. 733MHz or faster CPU minimum.
• Minimum 2GB of RAM (4GB RAM recommended).
• 1.7GB free disk space for VMware Player installation and at least 8GB for the Alfresco virtual machine

Macintosh

• Minimum 2GB of RAM (4GB RAM recommended) 
• 700MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 8GB for the Alfresco virtual machine
• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later; Mac OS X 10.6 or later

Introduction

Architecture and technology

Looks at the basic building blocks used by the Share user interface, how the components fit together and how the system can be configured.

• Forms Overview
• Terminology
• Where forms are used in Alfresco Share

Deploying and troubleshooting

Find out different ways of deploying Share and how to troubleshoot problems.

• Running Share in a different Tomcat instance
• Seeing your changes
• Troubleshooting

Configuring UI controls

Simple configuration can be used to change the default user interface behavior and appearance.

• Changing default User Interface (UI) control behavior 
• Changing the list of aspects a user can select
• Displaying a new custom type
• Changing label alignment

Forms system

Find out how the forms system can be configured for various requirements.Where configuration is actually done and terminology used.

• Terminology
• Where forms are used
• Configuration files
• Evaluators

Forms Configuration

Having understood the underlying constructs for the Forms system we look to configure the form system to display custom models.

• Changing the look and feel of the metadata forms
• Configuring Share for custom data lists
• Changing control types and constraints

Search Configuration

Share offers the ability to configure the search screen to understand your custom models, in this module we look at how to use Share configuration to setup the search screen for your specific requirements.

• Configuring advanced search

Share Development

Once you have understood Share Configuration you can move onto Share Development. In this module we provide a taster about how Share development is done and the types of things that can be achieved as precursor to the Share Development course.

• Configuration versus customization
• Introducing Spring Surf
• What can be customized
• Share development
• Share configuration best practice