cust-13 what’s new in share extras
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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?
[email protected]@wabson
http://sharextras.org/"